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Capacity Evolution
Lightning Network — channel capacity distribution by year
Capacity Evolution
Distribution of channel capacities by the year they were opened.
Tip: Larger capacity channels are more likely to successfully route bigger payments — look for nodes with many high-capacity channels when choosing routing peers.
| Year | < 100k sat | < 1M sat | < 3M sat | < 5M sat | < 10M sat | < 15M sat | > 15M sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 830 | 2,412 | 2,321 | 1,755 | 1,616 | 421 | 2,563 |
| 2025 | 2,905 | 3,509 | 3,430 | 2,193 | 2,316 | 510 | 1,889 |
| 2024 | 365 | 1,200 | 1,212 | 1,023 | 1,008 | 235 | 651 |
| 2023 | 463 | 932 | 750 | 557 | 577 | 129 | 394 |
| 2022 | 721 | 1,003 | 447 | 358 | 326 | 97 | 214 |
| 2021 | 1,219 | 1,305 | 302 | 255 | 102 | 21 | 71 |
| 2020 | 463 | 305 | 51 | 54 | 27 | 11 | 15 |