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 This protocol assumes an underlying authenticated and ordered transport mechanism that takes care of framing individual messages.
 [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.
 
-The default TCP port is 9735. This corresponds to hexadecimal `0x2607`: the Unicode code point for LIGHTNING.<sup>[1](#reference-1)</sup>
+The default TCP port depending from the network used. The most common networks are:
+
+- Bitcoin mainet with port number 9735 or the corresponding hexadecimal `0x2607`;
+- Bitcoin testnet with port number 19735 (`0x4D17`).
+
+The Unicode code point for LIGHTNING <sup>[1](#reference-1)</sup>, and the port convention try to follow the Bitcoin 0.22 convention.
 
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