Channel

Channels are Lightning payment channels. Most L2 payments (BTC or RGB) require at least one usable channel.

List channels

rgbldk channel ls

Look at these columns:

• Ready / Usable (must be true before you can reliably pay)
• User Channel ID (you will paste this into close/force-close)

Open a channel

You need:

• the peer is connected (rgbldk peer connect ...)
• the counterparty node_id and P2P address
• enough on-chain BTC in the wallet to fund the channel

rgbldk channel open \
  --node-id <NODE_ID> \
  --addr <P2P_HOST_PORT> \
  --amount-sats 60000 \
  --push-msat 0 \
  --private

Copy the user_channel_id from the output:

{ "user_channel_id": "a2f103359c5bf4987caa028878118345" }

Then mine blocks / wait for confirmations until channel ls shows Usable=true.

Close a channel (cooperative)

rgbldk channel close --user-channel-id <USER_CHANNEL_ID> --counterparty-node-id <NODE_ID>

Force-close (destructive)

Force-close is destructive and usually requires confirmations before funds become spendable.

rgbldk --yes channel force-close --user-channel-id <USER_CHANNEL_ID> --counterparty-node-id <NODE_ID>