Announcing Wavelength, the easiest way to integrate bitcoin for agents and humans. 〰️⚡ With a simple non-custodial API, anyone can integrate Lightning into their app and get instant, high volume, low fee transactions. Machines can pay machines. Humans can pay humans. Anywhere. The future of agentic money is ours to build. Learn more: lightning.engineering/posts/… Start building it: wavelength.lightning.enginee…

Lightning builders solved pay-per-request years before AI agents needed it. @lightning's L402 was ready long before this moment arrived.

NEW: The vending machine at MIT media lab now accepts ⚡️ Bitcoin Lightning payments 🙌 Via @jonhbit

Nuevo release de #LND v.0.21.4 Una de las mejoras relevantes: ahora el decoder BOLT11, rechaza invoices que contienen más de un campo p (payment_hash), incluso si los campos duplicados tienen longitudes no soportadas. Antes. BOLT11 malformada ├─ p = payment_hash A └─ p = payment_hash B ↓ Ahora LND 0.21.4 ↓ RECHAZA Mas detalles aquí. 👇🏻 github.com/lightningnetwork/…

Here is the Wavelength Ark VTXO design, what is novel is their “Asset commitment root”. That’s where they put the stablecoins. The operator controls the “assets”. @dario_nakamoto @lightning @btcplusplus

. @dario_nakamoto presents Wavelength, the Ark implementation from @lightning labs. He shares their plans to use “Taproot assets” for stablecoins on their Ark! They use the same “free window” of refreshes, just like Bark

Integrate what you need: • One-time SMS • Number rentals • Email activations • L402 for agents and Lightning-native apps No account balance to preload. Pay for each order over Lightning.

BitPocket Update 🚀 The latest versions are now live: • iOS: v1.4.3 (Build 150) • Android: v1.4.4 What’s new: • Added a Taproot Assets (TA) transaction details page to the Lightning Wallet • Improved user experience • Fixed multiple bugs The updates have been released and are now available to users. Download BitPocket and start using it today: bitdance.network/bitpocket.h… Your Keys. Your Bitcoin. Your Pocket.

A Lightning node can have money to send and no room to receive. Outbound liquidity: funds on your side of a channel. Inbound liquidity: funds on your peer’s side that can move to you. Balance alone doesn’t tell the whole story. docs.lightning.engineering/t…

LND v0.21.4-beta and v0.20.5-beta are out 🚀 Maintenance releases with key bug fixes, incl. one for HTLCs that could be left pending and trigger unnecessary force closes. All node operators are encouraged to upgrade. github.com/lightningnetwork/… github.com/lightningnetwork/…

Lightning payment volume is impossible to know (network-wide) without being party to the payment. Previous estimates set volume at ~$1B/month. I can now confirm that those estimates significantly *underreport* the actual payment volume.

Lightning Enable, una plataforma de pagos basada en Lightning que permite a los agentes de IA pagar de forma autónoma a las API mediante L402, publica un caso práctico con AMBOSS que muestra a un agente de IA adquiriendo acceso a una API utilizando BTC y USDT-L, con confirmación de pago verificada mediante preimagen.

El protocolo L402 (Lightning Labs) activa el código HTTP 402. Flujo: 1. El agente IA pide un recurso/API. 2. El servidor responde 402 + invoice Lightning (BOLT11) + macaroon en el header WWW-Authenticate. 3. El agente paga en sats vía Lightning y obtiene el preimage. 4. Reenvía la petición con Authorization: L402 macaroon:preimage. 5. El servidor verifica y entrega el dato. Todo automático, sin cuentas, suscripciones ni tarjetas. Solo micropagos instantáneos en sats.

A tiny payment can cross a border before a bank form finishes loading. That is the quiet superpower of Lightning. Small amounts still get to behave like money. lightningfaucet.com/r/tPeUhh…

Muse. Instinct. Grok Bot. dots. Every personal agent now gets its own computer to act on behalf of its human. When everyone has an agent making 1,000 requests a day, a web built for humans will break. Agents will pay per request. L402.tech

Had a blast diving deep into the Lightning Network in Pune ⚡️ From the mechanics of payment channels to how Layer 2 scales Bitcoin for global adoption, the discussions were truly insightful. A huge thanks to everyone who joined us to explore the future of instant, low-cost payments. Stay tuned for the next one! 🚀

Bitcoin Lightning + l402.tech is a natural fit for buying and selling AI inference. Instant, permissionless, pay-per-request and no charge back!!! . Strong argument here👇 “You Can’t Return Inference Once a model runs, the compute has been consumed. The seller cannot recover it if the payment is later reversed. Laolu Osuntokun, CTO of Lightning Labs, described the risk this way: “Credit cards are the wrong payment network here as inference is irreversible, while credit cards are reversible, creating short term loan risk for the inference provider.” A seller choosing prepayment still has to consider whether that payment can be reversed. The protocol he helped design, L402, lets a service collect payment before granting access, without requiring a separate customer account. When an agent requests access to a paid resource, such as a model response or a database result, the service sends it a Lightning invoice and a token. The requested service holds back access until the agent returns that token with proof of payment. For inference, that check can happen before the model runs. The initial request still consumes resources; L402 does not make those free.”

My first piece for @twifintech 🫡 Wrote about what I think we're still missing with agentic commerce: what are we actually authorizing agents to do, and who pays for all the work that never ends in a transaction? thisweekinfintech.com/p/the-…

What Mike @lightningenable helped me realize is that stablecoins + L402 is the most powerful combination for AI Agents. Here's what we achieved together between @ambosstech and @lightningenable.

What if small Bitcoin payments didn't need to be recorded on-chain every single time? This short explainer breaks down the Lightning Network in plain English. Watch till the end. ⚡ #Bitcoindada #LightningNetwork #LearnBitcoin

We added a new case study showing Lightning Enable + @ambosstech in action. An AI agent purchased API access over Lightning using both bitcoin and USDT-L, with the payment preimage returned to prove payment and unlock the resource via L402. Thanks to the AMBOSS team for working with us to test the flow and get it running in production. See what you can build with Amboss + Lightning Enable: lightningenable.com/case-stu…