In addition to our own analysis over the past few days, we've received a number of reports from contributors among them Bitcoin Red Team and Project Loupe. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to investigate, report issues, and help improve the security of the Alby ecosystem. 🙏 We're working through them step by step. The best course of action is simply to keep Alby Hub, the Alby Browser Extension, and Alby Go up to date.

🚀 Introducing l402.space — the Universal 402 Gateway Any wallet. Any paid API. Any rail. The web is filling up with APIs you pay per call. l402.space lets your agent pay for any of them. No matter how they want to be paid. Here's the headache: Paid APIs don't all speak the same money language. One wants x402, another MPP, another L402. So your agent ends up needing a different wallet for every one. Annoying. l402.space fixes that: You pay it once with any wallet over L402, x402, or MPP. And it settles the upstream API on your behalf over whatever rail that endpoint speaks. One wallet. Everything paid for. Want to try it? Just hand this to your agent: "Open http://l402.space/llms.txt and tell me how I can use it." Here are example APIs: x402 → https://blockrun.ai/openapi.json MPP → https://stableenrich.dev/openapi.json L402 → https://sats4ai.com/llms.txt Give your agent one way to pay for everything and give your API one way to get paid 👇

l402.space — Universal 402 Gateway

Any wallet. Any paid API. Any rail. l402.space is a payment gateway that lets you pay for any 402-gated API with any agentic wallet — over L402, ...

⚠️ Beware of scam accounts impersonating Alby. We've seen an account (.such as npub1xz90d3qftndn50e2l56a35nkgtxs52ydpptl2mvuvtpdnn0xdrfseye0pu) sending DMs claiming you can "claim a massive bonus" through a website. These messages are not from us. Stay safe: • Always check the URL before clicking any link. • Only trust pages on the getalby.com domain. • Check the history and reputation of the Nostr account before interacting with it. • If you're unsure whether a message is legitimate, send us a DM. When in doubt, don't click.

Leveraging bitcoin payments in a business isn't just about picking any wallet. It's about infrastructure that works for you: agent workflows, fee optimization, and liquidity automation running in the background. We covered the finance side in Part 1. Now: how AI agents and Lightning automation take it further.

How Alby Uses Alby Hub to Power AI Agents and Automate Lightning Node Management (Part 2)

How Alby manages AI agent payments and automates Lightning node management with Alby Hub — auto swaps, multiple LSPs, and fee optimization.

Alby Hub 1.23 release codenamed "Tim Hudson" is out! 🐶 Ark (Bark by @Second) backend - Beta 🧪 Just-In-Time Channels 💳 Cards page 💱 Fiat and bitcoin units toggles in currency inputs 🎥 "Stories" widget Let’s dive in 🧵... --- You can now run self-hosted Alby Hub with Ark (Bark by @Second) , and connect it to apps within a vast @Nostr Wallet Connect ecosystem. See how you can connect to mobile Alby Go in just 20 seconds! Read more about our Ark implementation on our blog:

Introducing Ark in Alby Hub - a New Payment Backend

Discover Alby Hub: the self-custodial bitcoin wallet with effortless lightning node management, modular backends, and the new Ark integration.

--- 🧪 Just-In-Time Channels No inbound liquidity? No problem. All LDK-based Alby Hubs now work with JIT channels — a type of channels that open automatically the moment you receive a payment. Just create an invoice of any amount, even when it's over your receive limit. --- 💳 Cards page Spending sats with Hub everywhere just got much easier. Discover, connect and top up debit cards straight from your Hub — powered by @Nostr Wallet Connect You'll get a special top-up link for your connected card. --- 💱 Currency input got an upgrade Click on fiat unit to type in fiat value, or click on your sats unit to switch it to BTC unit. --- And finally, Stories widget on Home dashboard. You'll see here videos of new releases, highlighted features and tips & tricks of using Alby Hub. --- This release is dedicated to Tim Hudson — co-creator of SSLeay, the precursor to the widely used OpenSSL library Alby Hub is open source. View the full release notes on GitHub and join in with a contribution If you like:

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Alby Hub - Your own Bitcoin Lightning node: easy, connectable, feature-rich ✨ Run anywhere. Become self-sovereign. - getAlby/hub

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Alby Hub | Bitcoin Lightning Wallet that Connects to Apps

Alby Hub is a self-custodial bitcoin lightning wallet that connects to hundreds of apps. Spend Bitcoin in person, on the web and inside apps with e...

Bookkeeping can be tiresome. Not anymore. ⚡️ Label your bitcoin transactions in Alby Hub and export them seamlessly into your accounting or tax software. Stay sovereign while keeping your books organized.

Transaction Labeling in Alby Hub

Transaction labeling in Alby Hub for seamless and error-free bitcoin bookkeeping and clean accounting.

Dive into agentic payments ⚡️ Learn how to connect and use any Bitcoin wallet with OpenClaw. Fast, secure, and simple. 2 steps. 1 minute. Tell us: Which AI agent are you using today? What integrations or instructions should we create next?

Bitcoin Payments in OpenClaw — the Fast and Secure Way

Learn how to connect and use any bitcoin wallet with OpenClaw in a fast and secure way.

Introducing Bitcoin Apps Directory An open source directory of apps, websites and services to connect your bitcoin wallet to. One place to find the best bitcoin-powered apps to connect your Alby Hub, Alby Extension or other NWC wallets. Use search to find what interests you or filter by categories or protocols you want to connect with — currently supporting @Nostr Wallet Connect , WebLN and Bitcoin Connect Try it out today!

Bitcoin Apps Directory for Lightning Wallets

A collection of apps, websites and services to connect your bitcoin wallet to.

After years of predictions about AI agents spending bitcoin, in 2026 it's finally here. @Roland sat down with @Sherry from @Roxom TV to discuss the first AI agent that spawned a "child" bot and paid for its own infrastructure using the bitcoin lightning network. We cover: - How is @openclaw different from ChatGPT? - The first autonomous AI purchase ever recorded on @PayPerQ and @LNVPS.net - Now everyone can build bitcoin apps Read more about the experiment on Roxom TV and why this matters for AI and bitcoin:

News | RoxomTV - Bitcoin & World News

Breaking news and in-depth analysis on Bitcoin, finance, global economics, politics, war, technology, and freedom.

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Alby CLI is the Alby Go for agents. It works with any NWC @Nostr Wallet Connect wallet. Watch Alice pay Bob in 30 seconds ⚡ Alby CLI gives your agent a wallet interface with budgeted access to your wallet. The Alby CLI skill teaches your agent exactly how to interact with an NWC wallet using Alby CLI: - send and receive payments - pay to lightning addresses - fiat conversions - list transactions - lookup payments - much more. Add the Alby CLI skill to your agent with a single command: `npx skills add getAlby/alby-cli-skill` On OpenClaw you can just tell it to "install https://getalby.com/cli/SKILL.md as a custom skill".

Learn your agent how to build bitcoin apps with one command. Try Alby Agent Skill

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GitHub - getAlby/builder-skill: Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent.

Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent. - getAlby/builder-skill

Curious to test payments before writing code? 👀 Our new dev sandbox lets you: • Explore payment scenarios instantly • Skip fees and flaky testnets • Jump in with ready-made code + prompt examples DM us to give it a try.