chainpeek (Tanod) Lightning invoice decoder
chainpeek (Tanod) Lightning invoice decoder: BOLT11 payment request to amount, payee, payment hash, expiry and route hints. Pure computation. Use when an agent must read a Lightning invoice (lnbc...) before paying it: amount, payee, expiry, payment hash.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-18
1 of 1checks answered this week
204 msmedian answer time
$0.001listed price per call
$0.001price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
POST https://tanod.dev/v1/chain/bolt11/decode
| Category | Everything else |
|---|---|
| Provider host | tanod.dev |
| Networks | eip155:137, eip155:42161, eip155:56, eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.001 | 204 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"invoice": "lnbc2500u1pvjluezpp5qqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqqqsyqcyq5rqwzqfqypqdq5xysxxatsyp3k7enxv4jsxqzpuaztrnwngzn3kdzw5hydlzf03qdgm2hdq27cqv3agm2awhz5se903vruatfhq77w3ls4evs3ch9zw97j25emudupq63nyw24cg27h2rspfj9srp"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"invoice": {
"description": "A BOLT11 Lightning invoice (lnbc..., lntb..., lntbs... or lnbcrt...); an optional 'lightning:' prefix and upper case are accepted.",
"maxLength": 6000,
"minLength": 10,
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"invoice"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"description": "Abridged to fit the header. Full example: the 402 JSON body. Full schema: https://tanod.dev/openapi.json POST /v1/chain/bolt11/decode",
"properties": {
"amount_btc": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"amount_msat": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"amount_sat": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"created_at": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"description": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"description_hash": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"expired": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"expires_at": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"expires_in_seconds": {
"type": "integer"
},
"expiry_explicit": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"expiry_seconds": {
"type": "integer"
},
"fallback_address_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"features": {
"type": "array"
},
"has_payment_secret": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"min_final_cltv_expiry_delta": {
"type": "integer"
},
"min_final_cltv_expiry_explicit": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"network": {},
"note": {
"type": "string"
},
"payee_pubkey": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"payee_pubkey_source": {},
"payment_hash": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"payment_metadata": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"prefix": {
"type": "string"
},
"route_hint_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"route_hints": {
"type": "array"
},
"server_time": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"signature_valid": {
"type": [
"boolean",
"null"
]
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "integer"
},
"unknown_field_tags": {
"type": "array"
},
"warnings": {
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"network",
"amount_msat",
"created_at",
"expiry_seconds",
"expires_at",
"expired",
"payee_pubkey",
"signature_valid",
"payment_hash",
"route_hint_count",
"features",
"note"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}