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Nubank brings Bitcoin Lightning to its 100M Latin American customers

Lightspark will also integrate the Universal Money Address standard for Nubank, which gives an email-like address for users to send and receive money.

Brazilian neobank Nubank has partnered with payments platform Lightspark to offer the Bitcoin Lightning Network to its 100 million customers in Latin America.

Lightspark said on June 25 that it’s working with Nubank to start the Lightning “integration, mapping, and building potential products” and would have “more to share in the future.”

Lightspark will also integrate the Universal Money Address standard — a payment system built on top of Lightning that gives users an email-like address to transfer money.

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