# Lightning Network gossip snapshots

> Dataset card for lnresearch-topology. English only. This catalog hosts metadata, cards, and our own short derivatives. A sample is 1 MB or smaller and only when the license is CC BY, CC BY-SA, MIT, Apache-2.0, or CC0, with attribution. ND, gated, unknown-license, and files over 25 MiB are linked, not mirrored.

- Id: lnresearch-topology
- Publisher: lnresearch
- URL: https://github.com/lnresearch/topology
- License: unconfirmed (not verified)
- License URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4088530
- Approximate size: 3.2 GB
- Size in bytes: 3203590306
- Format: bz2 gossip snapshot
- Access: open
- Relevance: Lightning, payments
- Mirror allowed: no
- Data period: through 2023-09-24
- Verified at: 2026-10-20
- HTTP status: 200
- Archive URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20260420174953/https://github.com/lnresearch/topology
- Sample: none

## Notes

Repository code is MIT. Zenodo record 10.5281/zenodo.4088530 says other-open. The data-file license is unconfirmed. Latest snapshot gossip-20230924.gsp.bz2 is about 3.2 GB (3203590306 bytes, 35984848 messages). data_period ends 2023-09. This site does not mirror the snapshots.

## Files

- Card: https://agentpaywire.com/datasets/lnresearch-topology/card.json
- This file: https://agentpaywire.com/datasets/lnresearch-topology/README.md
- Page: https://agentpaywire.com/datasets/lnresearch-topology/
- Catalog: https://agentpaywire.com/datasets/index.json

A trained model is a possible later option. It would be hosted on Hugging Face, not on this site.