+Rust-Lightning
+==============
+
+[![Crate](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/lightning.svg?logo=rust)](https://crates.io/crates/lightning)
+[![Documentation](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?logo=read-the-docs&label=docs.rs&message=lightning&color=informational)](https://docs.rs/lightning/)
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-Rust-Lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
-=====
+Rust-Lightning is a Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. The main crate,
+`lightning`, does not handle networking, persistence, or any other I/O. Thus,
+it is runtime-agnostic, but users must implement basic networking logic, chain
+interactions, and disk storage.
+
+The `lightning-net-tokio` crate implements Lightning networking using the
+[Tokio](https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio) async runtime.
-Documentation can be found at [docs.rs](https://docs.rs/lightning/)
+Status
+------
The project implements all of the BOLT specifications in the 1.0 spec except
for [channel queries](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/07-routing-gossip.md#query-messages). The
improve. There are a number of internal refactorings being done now that will
make the code base more welcoming to new contributors. It is also anticipated
that as developers begin using the API, the lessons from that will result in
-changes to the API, so any developer using LDK at this stage should be prepared
+changes to the API, so any developer using this API at this stage should be prepared
to embrace that. The current state is sufficient for a developer or project to
experiment with it. Recent increased contribution rate to the project is expected
to lead to a high quality, stable, production-worthy implementation in 2020.
dependencies with dependencies. Do convince Andrew to cut down dependency usage
in rust-bitcoin.
+
+Tagline
+-------
+
+*"Rust-Lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!"*
+
Contributing
------------
Project Architecture
---------------------
-COMING SOON.
+For a Rust-Lightning high-level API introduction, see [ARCH.md](ARCH.md).
-License is Apache-2.0.
+License is either Apache-2.0 or MIT, at the option of the user (ie dual-license
+Apache-2.0 and MIT).