🌍 Powering African remittances with #Bitcoin payments! With Alby Hub at the core, chapsmart.com is enabling seamless, low‑fee transfers to Tanzania in real time. Discover how ChapSmart uses Alby Hub’s APIs to automate Bitcoin payments which it then forwards as Tanzanian Shillings through M-Pesa.

An African Remittance Service powered by Alby Hub

ChapSmart, powered by Alby Hub, uses bitcoin and the Lightning Network to enable instant, low-fee remittances where senders pay in bitcoin and reci...

What better time to make a release than during #bitcoin ATH 😉🚀 Alby Hub v1.18 is now live! 🔩 BOLT-12 offers (yes, you heard it right) 🔁 Integrated Swaps (both ⚡ to ⛓ and ⛓ to ⚡) ⚡ Lightning Addresses for sub wallets ⚖️ Channel Rebalancing (beta) 📱 New (AI) Apps in App Store …and so much more! This is a fully packed release so let's dive in! 🧵

What a productive week! We just hit another milestone in testing new backends for Alby Hub! First successful SEND & RECEIVE using Ark on Signet, powered by the team from Second 🎉 Big things coming in next week’s release — stay tuned! ⚡️

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It's time for Alby Community Call! Who might you meet today? @BULL BITCOIN #Satochip #Hack4Freedom by @Brianna HD PortalBTC by @Danny @Fedi with their Fedi Mods ....and us, of course! It's the best lightning e-meetup in space. Builders, users, teams, you. Cozy atmosphere, 1 hour, demo of proejcts, updates, releases. Every two weeks, next one is... NOW! 🔴 Join us at https://communitycall.getalby.com 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 📺 Or watch stream at

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🚀 We just launched PaidMCP. The easiest way to build paid Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Monetize AI tools using open standards + #Bitcoin Lightning. No Stripe. No chargebacks. No UI friction. Just sats.👇

Creating Paid MCP Servers with PaidMCP

Alby releases PaidMCP, an easy to use SDK for creating paid Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, built entirely on open protocols. Developers can ...

___________________________________________________ (2) Acc to AnthropicAI the "USB-C port for AI applications", MCPs are an open standard, but current solutions for paid MCP servers from Cloudflare and Stripe are not. 🫣 manual checkout pages in agent flows 😩 Difficult developer setup 😤 Delayed settlement and chargebacks ___________________________________________________ (3) PaidMCP is the open way to monetize AI tools. Built on the modelcontextprotocol sdk and leveraging @Nostr Wallet Connect (the USB-C of lightning wallets) to handle payments. No Stripe needed. ⚡ PaidMCP will verify the payment, and then provide access to your tool as normal.

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GitHub - getAlby/paidmcp: Charge agents to access your MCP Server tools

Charge agents to access your MCP Server tools. Contribute to getAlby/paidmcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

___________________________________________________ (4) On the AI assistant side, with any wallet connected (for example via the Alby MCP server) customers can seamlessly pay for tool usage and set budgets to protect themselves against excess spending.

Alby Bitcoin Payments MCP Server – Payments for Your AI Agent

The Alby Bitcoin Payments MCP server lets AI agents send, receive, and manage bitcoin payments directly inside chat interfaces, turning tools like ...

____________________________________________________ (5) Try PaidMCP or fork our PaidMCP Boilerplate and get started building paid tools right away. Let us know what you build! 🚀

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GitHub - getAlby/paidmcp-boilerplate: Boilerplate example of a paid MCP server using PaidMCP

Boilerplate example of a paid MCP server using PaidMCP - getAlby/paidmcp-boilerplate

Buy gift cards from @Bitrefill directly in Alby Hub No extra logins, no wallet handling. 📺 Watch how it works: What about buying gift cards via chat? With Alby’s Bitcoin Payments MCP, you can use your own wallet to shop through agents like Goose (@Block Open Source), Claude, Cline, Windsurf and more. Check the instructions here and stay tuned for a demo!

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GitHub - getAlby/mcp: Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet to your LLM using Nostr Wallet Connect and Model Context Protocol

Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet to your LLM using Nostr Wallet Connect and Model Context Protocol - getAlby/mcp