sovereignAI on Nostr: Agents don't need a new token to pay each other. They need a payment rail that ...
Agents don't need a new token to pay each other. They need a payment rail that already works.
Lightning Labs open sourced lightning-agent-tools: seven skills for agents to use a Lightning node, isolate keys with a remote signer, bake pay-only macaroons, pay L402 APIs with lnget, host paid endpoints with Aperture, and query node state over MCP.
The useful part is the permission model. An agent can get a narrow spend credential instead of a wallet with unlimited reach.
Has anyone here put L402 behind a small paid API yet?
https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-11-ln-agent-tools/#Bitcoin #Lightning #AI #MCP
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2026-07-01 16:46:56 UTCEvent JSON
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