Michael Levin⚡️

I’ve spent most of my career scaling payments. From 2017-2021, we poured years into building state channels on Ethereum The tech worked, but nobody used it. People used blockchains for trading tokens, not for making payments, and that's why L2s had to come first Agents are the users we were waiting for, and that's why we're stewarding the launch of the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) with channels baked in

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch! One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work. To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair your phone.

It's so easy building with Bark. Here I am paying an L402 payment over Lightning to get the weather for Nakamoto City. Everything LN-related handled by barkd in the backend.

“In our view, agents will most likely soon be responsible for most internet transactions, and we will likely need blockchains that support more than one million—or even one billion—transactions per second.” We shouldn't focus on scaling blockchains to a billion TPS. That goal indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of their architecture and purpose. Settle on-chain, transact off-chain. Lightning is the answer. Millions of near instant payments per second, final settlement on Bitcoin. Ready right now.

We built L402 years ago because we saw this moment coming. Now the space is catching up to the thesis, but foundational architectural choices matter. L402 delivers the best-in-class agentic commerce experience: 🏎️ Scale and Speed: L402 payment verification is a single local hash check (no external calls, no chain queries) so agents can sustain thousands of API calls per minute without hitting a verification bottleneck. 🤖🤖Multi-Agent by Default: Macaroon-based credentials support hierarchical delegation: a parent agent scopes budgets and permissions for sub-agents without a human re-authorizing every task. 🌐 Truly Decentralized Infra: No intermediary whose outage becomes yours. L402 was purpose-built for agentic commerce at scale.