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# On-Chain Swaps and Lightning Come to the Blockstream Desktop App

Blockstream Team
Mar 19, 2026

The Blockstream desktop app 3.1.0 brings the full Bitcoin stack to your laptop. Receive Liquid bitcoin (LBTC) via Lightning, pay Lightning invoices from your LBTC balance, and swap between bitcoin and LBTC. The same capability that made the mobile app a complete self-custodial Bitcoin platform is now available on desktop.

## The Full Payment Stack, Now on Desktop

Paying a Lightning invoice used to mean reaching for a phone. The desktop app now lets users pay Lightning invoices directly from LBTC balances and receive Lightning payments that land as LBTC. No channel management, inbound liquidity concerns, or switching between devices.

When sending a Lightning payment, the Blockstream app generates an invoice and an atomic swap automatically converts the incoming funds to LBTC in your desktop wallet. Sending works in reverse: paste a Lightning invoice, and pay with LBTC through an atomic swap. In the unlikely event a swap fails, funds return automatically. No custodian handles any part of the process.

## Swap Between Bitcoin and LBTC

Hold LBTC for Confidential Transactions and Lightning interoperability. Swap back to on-chain bitcoin when you want base layer finality. The entire flow happens within the open-source Blockstream app, without any intermediaries.

On-chain fees high? Stay in LBTC and accumulate. Fees low? Sweep to on-chain cold storage. On-chain swaps lets users time settlements without giving up self-custody at any point.

## Jade Genuine Check вЂ” Dedicated Drawer

Knowing a hardware wallet is authentic is as important as the wallet itself. The Jade Plus Genuine Check flow now has a dedicated drawer in the desktop app, making device verification faster to access and easier to complete.

Genuine Check uses Blockstream's attestation server to cryptographically verify that a device hasn't been tampered with.