ALT5 Sigma Integrates Lightning Network with Voltage to Enable Instant Bitcoin Payments
- Integration enables instant Bitcoin transactions with lower fees
- Partnership with Voltage provides enterprise-grade Lightning infrastructure
- Potential expansion into stablecoin settlement over Lightning Network
- Enhanced service offering for high-frequency payment platforms
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ALT5's Lightning Network integration enhances competitive positioning with faster Bitcoin transactions, potentially driving increased adoption and transaction revenue.
This Lightning Network integration represents a strategic enhancement to ALT5's core payment infrastructure. By partnering with Voltage, ALT5 addresses three critical market demands: transaction speed (settling in seconds versus minutes/hours), cost reduction (dramatically lower fees compared to on-chain transactions), and scalability (Lightning handles thousands of transactions per second).
The technology stack implications are significant. Lightning Network operates as a Layer 2 solution atop Bitcoin's blockchain, using payment channels to process transactions off-chain. This architecture enables microsecond settlement times and near-zero fees - critical advantages for ALT5's clients running high-frequency payment platforms.
From a competitive standpoint, this positions ALT5 ahead of payment processors still limited to traditional on-chain transactions. Market timing appears strategic as Lightning Network adoption accelerates - node count has grown
The mention of potential stablecoin settlement over Lightning signals forward-thinking product development. This would expand ALT5's addressable market beyond Bitcoin-centric platforms to include institutions requiring stable-value settlement but wanting Lightning's speed advantages.
For ALT5's enterprise clients, this integration translates to meaningful operational benefits: reduced capital lockup due to faster settlement, lower transaction costs improving margins, and enhanced end-user experience through instant confirmation. These advantages could drive higher transaction volumes through ALT5's platform, directly impacting their transaction-based revenue model.
The integration enables instant, low-cost Bitcoin transactions, meeting the rising demand from businesses for faster settlement, lower fees, and modern payment infrastructure built to scale. As adoption of Lightning accelerates across the financial ecosystem, ALT5 is helping global merchants and financial institutions plug into this next-generation network with the security and scalability they require.
"Real-time payments are becoming foundational to the digital economy," said Peter Tassiopoulos, CEO of ALT5 Sigma. "Our Lightning integration marks more than a technical upgrade; it's a strategic step toward enabling faster, more inclusive financial flows for businesses worldwide. With Voltage's infrastructure, we're delivering speed and certainty where it matters most: at the point of transaction."
ALT5's clients operate platforms that facilitate high-frequency digital payments, where speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency are essential. Lightning enables them to settle Bitcoin transactions in seconds, delivering an instant experience for end-users while reducing costs and friction at scale. ALT5 continues to see growing demand for faster, lower-cost crypto settlement options, particularly in cross-border and high-frequency transaction environments.
"Lightning isn't just a faster way to move Bitcoin–it's an upgrade to how businesses manage cost, scale, and settlement," said Graham Krizek, CEO of Voltage. "ALT5's infrastructure brings these benefits to enterprises with the reach and resilience they expect."
Expanding Horizons: Stablecoins and Real-Time Settlement
The evolving potential for stablecoin settlement over Lightning presents new opportunities for financial platforms. ALT5 is closely monitoring this space as part of its ongoing commitment to delivering scalable, future-ready payment infrastructure for global enterprises.
By embedding Lightning into its broader Crypto-as-a-Service infrastructure, ALT5 continues to support institutions in bridging digital assets with real-world financial workflows securely, efficiently, and across global operations.
For more information on ALT5 Sigma's payment solutions and its integration with Voltage, users can visit http://alt5sigma.com/.
About ALT5 Sigma
ALT5 Sigma Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTS) (FRA: 5AR1) is a fintech company, providing next generation blockchain-powered technologies for tokenization, trading, clearing settlement, payment and safe keeping of digital assets. The Company is one of the constituents of the Russell Microcap Index, as of June 28, 2024.
Founded in 2018, ALT5 Sigma, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of ALT5 Sigma Corporation), provides next-generation blockchain-powered technologies to enable a migration to a new global financial paradigm. ALT5 Sigma, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers two main platforms to its customers: 'ALT5 Pay' and 'ALT5 Prime.' ALT5 Sigma has processed over
ALT5 Pay is an award-winning cryptocurrency payment gateway that enables registered and approved global merchants to accept and make cryptocurrency payments or to integrate the ALT5 Pay payment platform into their application or operations using the plugin with WooCommerce and or ALT5 Pay's checkout widgets and APIs. Merchants have the option to convert to fiat currency(s) automatically or to receive their payment in digital assets.
ALT5 Prime is an electronic over-the-counter trading platform that enables registered and approved customers to buy and sell digital assets. Customers can purchase digital assets with fiat and, equally, can sell digital assets and receive fiat. ALT5 Prime is available through a browser-based access mobile phone application named "ALT5 Pro" that can be downloaded from the Apple App Store, from Google Play, through ALT5 Prime's FIX API, as well as through Broadridge Financial Solutions' NYFIX gateway for approved customers.
The Company is working on the separation of our biotech business that will move forward under 'Alyea Therapeutics Corporation.' Through its biotech activities, the Company is focused on bringing to market drugs with non-addictive pain-relieving properties to treat conditions that cause chronic or severe pain. Our patented product, a novel formulation of low-dose naltrexone (JAN123), is being initially developed for the treatment of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), an indication that causes severe, chronic pain generally affecting the arms or legs. The FDA has granted Jan123 Orphan Drug Designation for the treatment of CRPS.
About Voltage
Voltage is a leading enterprise Lightning Network provider, offering scalable infrastructure for businesses looking to integrate instant, low-cost Bitcoin payments. With a mission to drive mainstream Lightning adoption, Voltage provides businesses with the tools they need to leverage Bitcoin's fastest and most efficient payment layer.
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