# phoenixd HTTP API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/acinq/phoenixd-http-api/  
**Provider:** Acinq — https://apis.io/providers/acinq/  
**Base URL:** http://{phoenixd_host}:9740  
**Documentation:** https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/api

phoenixd HTTP API is one of 2 APIs that [Acinq](https://apis.io/providers/acinq/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Lightning Network, Payments, Bitcoin, and Webhook. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an API reference, a getting-started guide, and API documentation.

The HTTP API of phoenixd, ACINQ's self-custodial Lightning server daemon. 27 documented endpoints covering Bolt11 invoices, Bolt12 offers, Lightning addresses, on-chain sends and swap-in, payment history, channel management, invoice/offer decoding, liquidity fee estimation and the three LNURL flows, plus a payments websocket and configurable HMAC-signed webhooks. Authenticated with HTTP Basic using a primary or limited-access password generated on first start. The daemon is operated by the integrator, so the base URL is the integrator's own host; the documented default bind is 127.0.0.1:9740.

## Machine-readable artifacts (6)

- **APIReference** — https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/api
- **GettingStarted** — https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/get-started
- **Documentation** — https://phoenix.acinq.co/server
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/ACINQ/phoenixd
- **Webhooks** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acinq/refs/heads/main/asyncapi/acinq-phoenixd-webhooks.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acinq/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Acinq APIs (1)

- [Eclair JSON API](https://apis.io/apis/acinq/eclair-json-api/)

## Tags

Lightning Network, Payments, Bitcoin, Webhook

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/acinq/phoenixd-http-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/acinq/.