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Builder's Guide
For agents: Builder's Guide to the Lightning Network and LND: covers payment channels, invoices, routing, watchtowers and Lightning Terminal for developers.
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# Builder's Guide
## Builder's Guide
- [Welcome to the Builder's Guide to the LND Galaxy!](https://docs.lightning.engineering/readme.md): This repository is designed as a home for those looking to learn about the Lightning Network, use and build on LND, Lightning Terminal, Loop, Pool as well as those developing their own LAPPS.
- [Overview](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/overview.md): Learn how the Lightning Network functions. Get comfortable with its topology, channels, invoices and routing.
- [Payment Channels](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels.md): Payment channels are multisignature contracts between peers. Payments are made inside these payment channels and can be settled on the Blockchain.
- [Lifecycle of a Payment Channel](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels/lifecycle-of-a-payment-channel.md)
- [Watchtowers](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels/watchtowers.md): Watchtowers help secure your channels against breaches. Learn how they function and how to run your own watchtower.
- [Understanding Sweeping](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels/understanding-sweeping.md): Sweeps are transactions from specialized scripts back into your main wallet. They are used in various contexts throughout the Lightning Network.
- [Etymology](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-channels/etymology.md): Understand how channels might differ from each other and how we describe their characteristics.
- [The Gossip Network](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/the-gossip-network.md)
- [Identifying Good Peers on the Lightning Network](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/the-gossip-network/identify-good-peers.md): Learn how to best select other Lightning Nodes for opening channels.
- [Pathfinding](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pathfinding.md)
- [Finding routes in the Lightning Network](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pathfinding/finding-routes-in-the-lightning-network.md)
- [Channel Fees](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pathfinding/channel-fees.md)
- [Multipath Payments (MPP)](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/pathfinding/multipath-payments-mpp.md): Splitting a payment into smaller parts and route each part separately.
- [Lightning Network Invoices](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-lifecycle.md)
- [Understanding Lightning Invoices](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/payment-lifecycle/understanding-lightning-invoices.md): Learn how to identify, decode and create Lightning invoices
- [Making Payments](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/multihop-payments.md)
- [The Payment Cycle](https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/multihop-payments/
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