Lunarblock

Bitcoin full node in Lua for LuaJIT

Lua

About

A Bitcoin full node in Lua targeting LuaJIT 2.1 for high performance, proving that even scripting languages can handle consensus.

Completion 90%

Mainnet sync

At Chain Tip

100%

Block height

948,374

Sync rate

At tip

Test vectors

1222/1222

Tech stack

Language

Lua

Storage

RocksDB

Crypto

libsecp256k1 (C FFI)

Lines of code

40,400

Quick start

terminal

$ git clone https://github.com/hashhog/lunarblock.git

$ cd lunarblock

$ luajit src/main.lua --network=mainnet

Features

✓ Wire serialization

✓ Cryptographic primitives

✓ Script interpreter

✓ P2P networking

✓ Block validation

✓ UTXO set management

✓ Header sync

✓ Block sync (IBD)

✓ Mempool

✓ RPC server

✓ Wallet

✓ Mining/block templates

✓ Script test vectors (1222/1222)

✓ Testnet4 sync

✓ Mainnet sync

✓ BIP324 v2 transport

✓ BIP-39 mnemonic

✓ HD wallet (BIP-32/44)

○ Taproot signing (BIP-340/341)

○ Tapscript signing (BIP-342)