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This protocol assumes an underlying authenticated and ordered transport mechanism that takes care of framing individual messages.
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[BOLT #8](08-transport.md) specifies the canonical transport layer used in Lightning, though it can be replaced by any transport that fulfills the above guarantees.
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The default TCP port is 9735. This corresponds to hexadecimal `0x2607`: the Unicode code point for LIGHTNING.<sup>[1](#reference-1)</sup>
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The default TCP port depends on the network used. The most common networks are:
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- Bitcoin mainet with port number 9735 or the corresponding hexadecimal `0x2607`;
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- Bitcoin testnet with port number 19735 (`0x4D17`);
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- Bitcoin signet with port number 39735 (`0xF87`).
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The Unicode code point for LIGHTNING <sup>[1](#reference-1)</sup>, and the port convention try to follow the Bitcoin Core convention.
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All data fields are unsigned big-endian unless otherwise specified.
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