How to get a Lightning address, wallet by wallet
Most Lightning wallets will give you a Lightning address, and many hand you one the moment you sign up. Here's where to find yours, or how to make one, in eight wallets. Every step is from the wallet's own pages, read on 1 October 2026.
What is a Lightning address?
A Lightning address looks like an email address, name@domain, and most Lightning wallets can pay it. It's set out in a spec called LUD-16: the payer's wallet asks the domain for a fresh invoice for that name, so one address can be printed, posted and paid again and again.
A Lightning address example, from the spec itself: satoshi@bitcoin.org. Yours ends in your wallet's domain, like @coinos.io or @blink.sv.
Wallet by wallet
Coinos
Coinos works in any web browser, so there's nothing to install.
- Go to coinos.io and tap "Start in Seconds".
- Choose a username and a password, and tap Register. That's all it asks for.
- Your address is username@coinos.io. To see it, open your page, coinos.io/username, and tap your name: Coinos shows your Lightning address, with buttons to copy it or show it as a QR code.
Blink
- In the Blink app, open Settings.
- Tap the option to receive payments with your Lightning address, and write a username.
- Your address is username@blink.sv. To find it later, go to Settings, then "Your Blink Address".
Speed
- In Speed Wallet, open BTC in the Wallet tab.
- Tap "Create BTC Lightning Address", then Setup, then "Setup your LN Address".
- Choose a username and tap Save. Your address is username@speed.app.
Choose with care: Speed says an address can't be renamed or deleted once it's made. Speed also makes USDT and USDC addresses; for bitcoin tips, use the BTC one.
Alby
- Make a free Alby Account at getalby.com. It comes with a Lightning address, yourname@getalby.com.
- Set up Alby Hub, the wallet the address pays into. It links itself to your account during setup, and runs either in the cloud, where it's always online, or on your own computer, which has to be on to receive.
- To see the address, open Wallet in Alby Hub and tap Receive.
Changing the name later takes a paid Alby plan.
Wallet of Satoshi
Every new wallet gets a random Lightning address straight away. Tap Receive: it's under the QR code, and tapping it copies it.
For a name of your own, like yourname@walletofsatoshi.com, back up the wallet, send or receive at least 10 Lightning payments, and send or receive at least 100,000 sats on-chain. Then tap Edit next to the address on the Receive page.
Strike
Strike gives every user a Lightning address at sign-up: your username, then @strike.me. To copy or share it, tap the profile icon in the top-right corner of the app. To change the username, go to Account, then Profile.
Strike can turn payments to your Lightning address into cash as they arrive. To keep tips in bitcoin, go to Account, then Bitcoin, and set "Receive currency" to bitcoin.
Primal
In the Primal app, open the wallet and tap "Create Wallet" if it asks. Then tap Receive: your address is under "Your Lightning Address", with a Copy button. A custom address at primal.net comes with Primal Premium, as your Primal Name, for as long as you subscribe.
Cash App
Cash App's help page says bitcoin sent to cashtag@cash.app lands in your Bitcoin balance, so your address is your $Cashtag without the $, then @cash.app. Lightning on Cash App isn't available in New York, and it's capped at $999 in bitcoin every seven days. To keep tips in bitcoin, make sure "Receive Lightning as dollars" is off.
Which of these confirm tips
Every address above receives tips. What differs is whether the wallet can tell a tip page that a tip arrived, which takes a Lightning standard called LUD-21. As our wallet checks stood on 1 October 2026, Coinos, Speed, Blink and Alby confirm payments, and Wallet of Satoshi, Strike and Primal don't. All seven carry the tipper's name. Cash App hasn't been checked yet, and the box on that page checks any address, Cash App's included.
What that changes, and which wallet suits a counter, a stream or a team, is in which Lightning wallet your tip jar should use.
What an address can't do on its own
- Offer amounts to tap. The address only tells the tipper's wallet the smallest and largest amount it will take, so the wallet shows an empty box. Amounts to tap live on a page in front of the address, and they change what people leave.
- Tell a page it was paid. The proof of payment goes back to the tipper's wallet. A page only learns a tip landed by asking your wallet, and only a wallet that confirms payments can answer.
Make it a tip jar
Paste your address at bitcointipjar.com and you have a tip page with amounts to tap, a QR code and a poster. Tips go straight to your wallet, and with a wallet that confirms payments the tipper sees Paid ✓. Claim a short link before you print, so the poster keeps working if your address ever changes.
Sources: the Lightning address specs LUD-16, LUD-06 and LUD-21; Coinos's home page, sign-up page and its own pay page, as it has no help article on this; Blink's how to create and where to find pages; Speed's how to create and renaming pages; Alby's Lightning address, getting started and receive guides; Wallet of Satoshi's how they work, where to find and custom address pages; Strike's receiving, account details and Lightning address pages; Primal's premium page, its app's own wallet text and premium FAQ, as it has no help article on this; Cash App's Lightning page; our wallet table. All read on 1 October 2026. Steps, names and limits are theirs to change.