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lightningd: add payment-fronting-node option.

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Authored by Rusty Russell

68/100 · Adequate
lightningd: add payment-fronting-node option.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Changelog-Added: Config: `payment-fronting-node` option to specify neighbor node(s) to use for all bolt11 invoices, bolt12 offers, invoices and invoice_requests.
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What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new optional configuration setting called `payment-fronting-node` to Core Lightning. It lets a node operator choose one or more neighboring nodes to appear as the entry point on invoices and offers, routing payments to themselves through those neighbors. This is a privacy feature, not a security fix or vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal feature addition. Review the follow-up commits that consume `fronting_nodes` to ensure routehint/blinded-path construction is implemented safely.

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