Taproot address support in Core Lightning

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Hi,
Is it currently possible to use a Taproot address in Core Lightning (CLN) to receive sats?

Here’s what I did:
• I generated a Taproot address via RTL and successfully received sats to it.
• I then opened a channel from that balance.
• The remaining funds were sent to a CLN wallet address — but this was a SegWit (P2WPKH) address, not Taproot.

I couldn’t find any related option in the CLN configuration.

Is there a way to make CLN use Taproot addresses for change/remaining funds, or is Taproot only supported for incoming on-chain transactions?

Thanks in advance!

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I did some tinkering around with this, but I do not see any way to specify the script type for change addresses on CLN Application unfortunately.

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With RTL I can of course generate Taproot addresses, and also with ZEUS, but the CLN app itself doesn’t natively support Taproot addresses. That’s why at first I thought I had missed something. But all good, thanks anyway.:sunglasses:

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