LND Channel Rebalancing -- Keep Liquidity Balanced

Rebalancing moves sats from over-funded outbound channels to depleted ones, keeping routing fees flowing.

Circular Rebalance (manual)

# Create invoice on your own node
lncli addinvoice --amt 100000
# Pay it forcing outbound channel
lncli payinvoice --pay_req <req> --outgoing_chan_id <chan_id>

balance-of-satoshis (bos)

bos rebalance --amount 100000 --incoming-peer <pubkey> --outgoing-peer <pubkey> --max-fee-rate 100

When to Rebalance

- Local balance under 20%: needs inbound top-up

- Local balance over 80%: needs outbound drain

- Only rebalance if expected routing revenue exceeds rebalance cost

Automated: charge-lnd

pip install charge-lnd
# Set fee strategy in charge.config
[default]
strategy=proportional
base_fee_msat=1000
fee_rate=100

Check All Channel Balances

lncli listchannels | python3 -c "
import json,sys
for c in json.load(sys.stdin)['channels']:
    pct = int(c['local_balance'])/int(c['capacity'])*100
    print(f"{pct:.0f}% local | {c['capacity']} cap | {c['remote_pubkey'][:20]}")"