A study released at the end of June alleging that the Lightning Network had a low reliability of successfully routing a payment was refuted by the co-founder of Lightning Labs, as well as other crypto experts.
Also in June, Pokémon came to the Lightning Network in the form of Poketoshi, a game using a LN-enabled virtual controller that charges users 10 Satoshi per command, with one Satoshi equal to one hundred millionth of a single bitcoin.