diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
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+# This file is used to build and test `lightningd`
+
+# Image automatically built by https://github.com/cdecker/dockerfiles/tree/master/lightning/ci
+image: cdecker/lightning-ci:latest
+
+build:
+  stage: build
+  before_script:
+    - >-
+      curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_STATUS_TOKEN"
+      -X POST
+      --data '{"state": "pending", "description": "Gitlab-CI is building the commit", "context": "gitlab-ci"}'
+      https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/statuses/$CI_BUILD_REF || true
+  script:
+    - make
+    - make -j 12 check
+    - make check-source
+
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - daemon/lightningd
+      - daemon/lightning-cli
+
+update-status-fail:
+  image: tutum/curl
+  stage: deploy
+  when: on_failure
+  script:
+    - >-
+      curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_STATUS_TOKEN" -X POST --data '{"state": "failure", "description": "Gitlab-CI build failed, please contact @cdecker for details about build #$CI_BUILD_ID.", "context": "gitlab-ci"}' https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/statuses/$CI_BUILD_REF || true
+
+update-status-success:
+  image: tutum/curl
+  stage: deploy
+  when: on_success
+  script:
+    - >-
+      curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITHUB_STATUS_TOKEN" -X POST --data '{"state": "success", "description": "Gitlab-CI build succeeded.", "context": "gitlab-ci"}' https://api.github.com/repos/ElementsProject/lightning/statuses/$CI_BUILD_REF || true
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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-sudo: required
-dist: trusty
-language: c
-before_install:
-  - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin -y
-  - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/pkg-nlnetlabs -y || true # This fails due to UTF-8 in the author's name...
-  - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/libsodium -y
-  - sudo apt-get -qq update
-install:
-  - sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends bitcoind build-essential automake eatmydata net-tools libtool libprotobuf-c-dev libsodium-dev libsqlite3-dev valgrind protobuf-c-compiler libgmp-dev
-  - git clone https://github.com/luke-jr/libbase58.git libbase58; cd libbase58; ./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; sudo make install; cd ..
-  - git clone https://github.com/rustyrussell/lightning-rfc.git ../lightning-rfc
-compiler:
-  - gcc
-script:
-  - make clean
-  - make
-  - make full-check
-after_failure:
-  - sudo killall lightningd
-  - sudo kill `ps aux | grep lightningd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`;
-  - tar -cvjf /tmp/travis-run.tar.bz2 /tmp/lightning.*.?;
-  - curl --upload-file /tmp/travis-run.tar.bz2 https://transfer.sh/travis-run.tar.bz2;
-env:
-  global:
-    - LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib