Add async payments: blog post + implementation guide with shared diagram#314
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Separate the async payments material into a conceptual blog post (authored by Matt Corallo & Valentine Wallace) covering the challenge, existing approaches, and protocol design, and a trimmed implementation guide focused on integration for each node role. The two pages cross-link each other. Add a shared AsyncPaymentsSequenceDiagram component (registered globally) embedded in both pages so they stay in sync. The diagram is a 2x render of the sequence view, and is click-to-zoom via a self-contained lightbox (Escape / click to close, SSR-safe). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Render a dark-palette variant of the sequence diagram and swap between
the two via CSS keyed on VitePress's `html.dark` class (set before paint,
so no theme flash). Applies to both the inline figure and the lightbox.
Fix a specificity bug where the shared `img { display: block }` rule
outranked the per-image hide rule, leaving both variants visible in
light mode. Visibility is now driven purely off the per-image classes.
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The sender-side HTLC hold (extending CLTVs so the sender's LSP can hold the payment until the recipient returns) has not been merged yet, so the feature is not production-ready and the APIs may still change. Flag this up front with a beta callout. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the interoperability caveat to the beta warning: the flow currently works between LDK nodes and is not yet guaranteed to interoperate with other Lightning implementations. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Splits the async payments material into two complementary pieces, sharing a single diagram component.
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docs/blog/async-payments-receiving-while-offline.md(authored by Valentine Wallace & Conor Okus): the conceptual narrative — the challenge of receiving while offline, existing approaches and their limitations, how the protocol works, and design notes.docs/async-payments.md(under Advanced Guides): trimmed to the implementation — integration steps for always-online, often-offline, and LSP / static-invoice-server roles.Diagram
AsyncPaymentsSequenceDiagram.vuecomponent, registered globally and embedded in both pages so they stay in sync.html.darkclass (no theme flash).🤖 Generated with Claude Code