Elizabeth Stark

BuilderCrypto· American

Co-founded and leads Lightning Labs (2016), the main developer company of the Lightning Network — the open payment layer that makes Bitcoin usable for instant, near-free everyday payments at global scale via the lnd implementation and the Taproot Assets protocol, which now routes stablecoins over the same open rails. A decade-long public advocate for permissionless money reaching people excluded from card and banking networks, speaking on exactly this at Proof of Talk 2025.