LND Tower Client — Set Up Watchtower Protection in 5 Minutes

A watchtower monitors your channels while your node is offline and broadcasts justice transactions if a peer tries to cheat. Here's how to connect to one.

Add a watchtower to lnd.conf

[Wtclient]
wtclient.active=1

# Connect to ACINQ's free tower
wtclient.add-tower=03006fcf3312dae8d068ea297f58e2bd00ec1ffe214b793eda46966b6294a53ce6@tower.ln.acinq.co:9911

# After restart, verify
lncli wtclient towers

Check tower status

lncli wtclient towers | python3 -c "
import json, sys
d = json.load(sys.stdin)
for tower in d.get('towers', []):
    print(f'Tower: {tower[\"pubkey\"][:20]}')
    print(f'  Active sessions: {len(tower.get(\"active_session_candidate\", []))}')
    print(f'  Sessions: {len(tower.get(\"sessions\", []))}')
"

lncli wtclient stats

List public watchtowers

Other free watchtowers you can add:

# ACINQ
03006fcf3312dae8d068ea297f58e2bd00ec1ffe214b793eda46966b6294a53ce6@tower.ln.acinq.co:9911

# Find more at:
# https://amboss.space  (search 'watchtower')
# https://1ml.com/watchtower

Remove a watchtower

lncli wtclient remove-tower <PUBKEY>

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