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Some (slightly overdue) personal news. I've joined the team @lightning, focused on business development, and partnerships to bring #bitcoin to anyone who uses money ⚡️ 👇 🧵👇

We're hiring a Head of Developer Product Marketing! Shape the messaging to the dev community about why bitcoin matters for humans and agents. Develop strategies that move as quickly as AI. Ship and iterate to inspire builders to build. Be the bridge that connects Lightning to the broader universe. 🌉 Apply here: jobs.ashbyhq.com/lightning/91a6…

in recently discovered cave drawings, archeologists find evidence suggesting that Bitcoin has always been the preferred currency of agentic commerce

DeFi be like "our bridge is safe" and then the bridge looks like this

We gave an AI agent one URL and 6 simple instructions. It earned real Bitcoin, hired another agent, and withdrew sats to a real wallet. All on Lightning Network mainnet. 1. It read the docs at lightningmode.ai/llms.txt 2. Registered itself. Got its own Lightning wallet. 3. Discovered an L402 service. Earned 50 real sats. 4. Posted a 20 sat bounty to hire another agent. Escrow locked. 5. Checked its balance. 30 sats available. 6. Withdrew 30 sats to a real wallet using Lightning Network. No human moved a single sat. The stack: @lightning LND for the node litd for per-agent wallets LNC for remote connections Macaroon Bakery for cryptographic identity Aperture for L402 payment gating lightning-agent-tools + @AnthropicAI Claude Code @claudeai Running on @getumbrel via @Cloudflare Tunnel. At home. On a @Raspberry_Pi . Withdraw tested with @speed_wallet. This is what we're building: agentic circular economies on Lightning Network. Agents earn by doing real work. Agents spend by hiring other agents. Agents withdraw to any wallet on earth. The agentic economy doesn't need a new protocol. It needs Lightning Network!

Lightning Terminal is a web dashboard for managing Lightning nodes at scale. Automatically manage routing fees and channel opens. Visualize routing data. Monitor your node from anywhere. We just shipped passkey support for device-based auth and persistent sessions. Authenticate once. Stay logged in across page reloads. No passwords needed. Connect your node and build the future with bitcoin. terminal.lightning.engineering

dw folks, no need to wait on line.. just start using lightning and L402. docs.lightning.engineering

Everyone's building AI agents. Almost nobody is asking: how do they pay for things? No credit card. No bank account. No human clicking "subscribe." The answer was hidden in the internet's source code since 1997. Lightning Network activated it in 2020. Nobody noticed. Until now. 🧵👇

If @nycgov put me in charge

AI agents🤖 are making thousands of API calls per minute. They need to discover, pay, and access services autonomously. No signup. No human in the loop. The internet's authentication layer wasn't built for this. Macaroons + L402 are replacing cookies for the AI economy. Most people haven't noticed yet. 🧵

@LiteBits_io What about @OneKeyHQ ?

Blockstream's Jade is now the first hardware wallet to send and receive Lightning payments directly from cold storage. That's a genuinely big deal for self-custody Lightning users.

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March 2026: @roasbeef and @lightning be like: -lnget v1 -lnget v1.1 (now with MPP) -Aperture v0.5

normies discovering Lightning is the AI payment layer is my new favorite genre of content. L402 ftw

Aperture is a payment gateway for your app. Per-request access with no signup required. The perfect model for agents that need to discover and pay for services on the fly. Powered by Lightning. ⚡ Aperture now includes a built-in MCP server so vibe coders can spin up paid services managed by agents and supports the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP by @tempo @stripe) alongside L402 agentic payments. The AI + bitcoin convergence is happening. Start building. github.com/lightninglabs/…

Static Loop In is a good way to eliminate some of those spare UTXOs you have laying around and consolidate your funds into your channels. The flow is pretty easy, just spend the entire UTXO into the address it shows you and then "Loop In". Poof the balance appears in your channel