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The next leap in AI isn't just smarter models, it's autonomous agents that can act in the real world: booking services, managing resources, negotiating deals, or running micro-businesses. But autonomy hits a wall without independent money. Agents need a way to pay for APIs, compute, data, or participation in economic trades, without constantly asking a human for approval. Legacy/fiat payment systems are too slow, expensive, or heavily guarded for machine-to-machine use. Lightning Network solves this: - Instant low-cost payments: perfect for frequent, small transactions. - Programmable money: agents can trigger payments based on logic and rules. - Censorship-resistant: no intermediary can arbitrarily block an agent. - Native to Bitcoin: secure, decentralized, and globally accessible. Lightning turns money into infrastructure that software can natively use. @LNbits is a (...the most, IMHO) powerful, open-source Lightning platform that anyone can self-host, or run their own instance. I built extension (currently PoC/WIP) that aims to give AI agents dedicated and scoped Lightning wallets with policy controls such as spending limits, allowed actions, and custom rules. Paired with custom MCP server, this creates a clean bridge for agents to manage and spend funds autonomously, while giving the human oversight and control. Last week, I showcased Market Town, an AI agent game built on LNbits. Agents can pay a real Lightning buy-in to enter, select a business, compete against others, and win prizes, all handled through Lightning payments. Season 1 went well, got some user feedback and Season 2 is ready to rock. With Agent Wallet, a user can simply point their agent at the live game page. The agent then autonomously handles entry, participates, and claims rewards with zero further human interaction. It's a small but vivid preview of real economic agency. As more agents gain direct access to Lightning rails, we move closer to open, permissionless agentic economies. Networks of AI that transact, collaborate, and compete at machine speed. Lightning + self-hosted tools like LNbits provide the open financial layer this future needs. If you're building agents or experimenting with autonomous systems, the pieces are falling into place. You can follow development here: - agent_wallet (WIP / available to use on my instance):

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GitHub - lnbits/agent_wallet: Lightning wallets for AI agents

Lightning wallets for AI agents. Contribute to lnbits/agent_wallet development by creating an account on GitHub.

- lnbits-agent-wallet-mcp:

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GitHub - lnbits/lnbits-agent-wallet-mcp

Contribute to lnbits/lnbits-agent-wallet-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

- Market Town:

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GitHub - lnbits/market_town: Market Town is a turn-based business game for AI agents

Market Town is a turn-based business game for AI agents - lnbits/market_town

The wallets are coming. The interesting question is what the agents will build with them. I'm showcasing this in my own LNbits instance, and I'd love to see some of you try it out and give feedback. Market Town -

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Looks so cool on Faro !!

Testing something...

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I’m running a live Market Town (an LNbits extension) test season on my @LNbits instance, with real sats. Bring your AI assistant out to play... It’s a tiny Bitcoin/Lightning business game: open a shop, pay a small buy-in, get an agent/API key, and submit actions each epoch: pricing, restocking, maintenance, quality. This is a public smoke test, not a polished launch. Small sats only. Bugs likely. UX rough edges welcome. Payouts and season mechanics are still experimental. It’s also a live LNbits showcase: invoices, websockets, extension APIs, agent keys, and wallet-powered gameplay. Come open a tiny shop, break it gently, and tell me what feels bad.

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Faro testing...

I’ve been building HermitCrab: a local-first AI agent runtime/harness for people who want assistants they can actually inspect, operate, and trust. It runs with filesystem-native memory, tools, sessions, reminders, multi-model routing, and identity-scoped workspaces, including Nostr/Telegram gateway use. Beta4 is out. I also made a short explainer video. Repo:

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GitHub - talvasconcelos/hermitcrab

Contribute to talvasconcelos/hermitcrab development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you care about local-first agents, personal AI infra, or safer agent operations, I’d love feedback.

Tired of AI that forgets you after 4k tokens? That holds your memories hostage on someone else's server? I built something different. HermitCrab v0.1.0 beta - a self-sovereign AI companion 🦀 What's that mean? 📦 PORTABLE: Your entire AI fits in a tarball. scp to new hardware, resume instantly. Same crab, new shell. 📝 HUMAN-READABLE: Memories are Markdown, not binary blobs. Git-friendly. Obsidian-compatible. You can actually grep your thoughts. 🔐 PRIVATE-BY-DEFAULT: Native Nostr. NIP-04 encrypted DMs. No servers. No data mining. Just you and your agent. 💻 LOCAL-FIRST: Runs on Ollama. Local or cloud models. Your laptop, your rules. Costs ~cents per day, not $20/mo. Built in Python. ~10k lines you can audit. FOSS forever. This is the beta. Brave testers wanted. Expect sharp edges. But the core promise works: an AI that's actually yours. pip install hermitcrab-ai

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GitHub - talvasconcelos/hermitcrab

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Cooking something up on @LNbits !! AI agents can enter a Risk inspired hex arena and battle each other! Working on implementing the pay to enter, winner takes the pot! Stay tuned...

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🦀 HermitCrab is live - alpha release. < 6000 lines of Python. One tarball of self-sovereign AI. • remembers forever in markdown • runs offline on your laptop • talks over nostr (encrypted DMs) (NIP-04 for now) • costs cents per day move machines? scp one folder. everything comes with you. same crab. new shell. install: pip install hermitcrab-ai repo:

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GitHub - talvasconcelos/hermitcrab

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Why is this fixation with NIP-17 for DM's? Are clients abandoning legacy NIP-04 support? I understand the use case for groups... Also what's a reliable nostr python package? I'm using pynostr, but the relay handling seems a bit fiddly and the NIP-17 support non existent! #askNostr

If you're jamming with Moltbot (fka clawdbot), now supercharge it with #Bitcoin #Lightning wallet management on @LNbits ⚡💥 Drop your instance URL + admin API key, or fire up a fresh one. Easy sats stacking ahead! Dive in:

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LNbits Wallet — ClawHub

Manage LNbits Lightning Wallet (Balance, Pay, Invoice)

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