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Today we’re launching Voltage Credit. 👀 The industry’s first programmatic revolving line of credit built on top of Bitcoin payment rails. ⚡ Send payments with instant finality over BTC/Lightning. Repay your credit line in USD from a standard bank account or in Bitcoin. Pay interest only on what you use. ⚬ No forced crypto exposure. ⚬ No slow settlement. ⚬ No idle capital. It embeds a true revolving line of credit directly into the same infrastructure that powers your payments. Your choice, USD or BTC. Built for CFOs, treasury teams, heads of payments, and product leaders who want to move value on Bitcoin rails with enterprise controls. Join the priority list today and get access. voltage.cloud/blog/introduci…

How agents use L402 today, and where it's going. Now: • Paid API access, one call at a time • Monetized MCP servers (via Aperture) • Pay-per-query data feeds • LLM inference without an account • Content unlocks behind a sats paywall Next 2-3 years: • Agent-to-agent commerce. Payment is the handshake. • Per-second compute, GPU, and bandwidth • Autonomous SaaS replacement. No more subscriptions. • Real-world bookings settled in sats • Macaroons replace API keys industry-wide 5+ years out: • Machine-native marketplaces. Agents are buyers AND sellers. • Streaming micropayments per token, per frame, per step • Identity = on-chain settlement history. No KYC. • Programmable contracts between agents • L402 becomes the default rail. Like TCP/IP for commerce. And my favourite = agents will hire humans to access real-world actions. For instance, if an agent needs to have a live customer service feature for its users (because now agents run entire businesses themselves) then it will hire a call center via a programable macaroon L402 payment specifying exact details of the scope needed from the humans/call center. -> pretty cool The throughline: As agents get more autonomous, the unit of commerce shrinks and friction has to approach zero. Only Lightning math works at that scale.

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Join @BitGo + @voltage_cloud on May 28 — how to bring institutional Lightning to your payment stack with qualified custody and a single API. RSVP Now: my.demio.com/ref/DCe4QRgjls…

The latest LND solves several edge cases that I've encountered in my years of #reckless testing. Without saying too much, the sweeps that just occurred (closed channel funds are now back on-chain) are financially meaningful 🙏 Thank you @lightning and @voltage_cloud!

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For years, businesses that wanted to accept crypto payments hit the same wall. Legal uncertainty. Unclear licensing. Unclear asset classification. Compliance teams saying, “not yet.” The CLARITY Act could change that. @gkrizek , Founder & CEO of @voltage_cloud , shared with @Inc why this matters for the payments ecosystem: “It ends regulation by enforcement and replaces it with actual rules, which means compliance officers can finally say yes.” Banks opposing the CLARITY Act are protecting legacy revenue streams. Clarity helps any business that wants faster, cheaper, more programmable payment infrastructure. The future of global payments will not be built in a gray area. It will be built when serious companies finally have the clarity to say yes.

@TFTC21 Great news for builders.

Buried on page 230 of the CLARITY Act is arguably the biggest win for the digital asset industry in the entire 309-page bill. Section 604: The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. If you build open-source blockchain software and don't have unilateral control over users' funds, you are not a money transmitter. Not under FinCEN rules. Not under federal criminal law. Not under state registration requirements. Writing code ≠ money transmission. Building self-custody tools ≠ money transmission. Running node infrastructure ≠ money transmission. For years, developers have operated under the threat that publishing code could expose them to money transmission charges. Section 604 eliminates that ambiguity entirely. It establishes a clear, codified legal protection for the people who actually build the open-source infrastructure this industry runs on. Senate Banking markup is Thursday. Read the bill.

@tando_me Wonderful update!

We’ve been on a side-quest, and we have good news from the other side! 40 million Kenyans now have a bitcoin Lightning Address! They didn’t need to sign up for one because they had it this entire time, attached to the phone number in their pocket! Try it: send bitcoin to 0717252303@bitcoin.co.ke (254 is optional). The BTC arrives as KES in their M-Pesa. ⚡ EVERY M-Pesa number works. All 40,000,000. Wallets with LUD-09 support give you a nice clickable link to see your M-Pesa receipt. For example: bitcoin.co.ke/receipt/6528a4…

Block and Spiral just launched Loupe, a free AI-powered vulnerability scanner for open-source Bitcoin projects. The tool scans Bitcoin codebases for security flaws across millions of lines of code. It is available as a free "scanning-as-a-service" tool for any open-source Bitcoin developer. As Bitcoin secures hundreds of billions in value and the codebase grows more complex, automated security scanning is no longer optional. Block and Spiral say it is "mission-critical" for the ecosystem, especially as open-source developers face growing pressure to secure infrastructure that most of the world's financial system is increasingly building on.

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The lightning network is quietly dominating iGaming. Our latest report tells an incredible story. ⚡️

Tired of your .env files leaking keys to your agents? Want a thin/minimal permission control tool in front of all your systems? Do I have a new tool for you github.com/tee8z/via

📊 New Report: The 2026 iGaming Benchmark Report is live. Instant, final settlement is redefining how operators run payments across sweepstakes, crypto casinos, daily fantasy, sports betting, and prediction markets. What's inside: ⚡ Why Cash App is becoming iGaming's fastest-growing deposit source ⚡ How instant settlement is transforming the player experience ⚡ What operators are gaining when chargebacks disappear entirely ⚡ The data behind the shift away from credit cards and ACH Download now 👇 voltage.cloud/igaming-benchm…

Bitcoin is becoming the glue of the financial system. Look at what @blocks is building with @CashApp and @Square: • Cash App handles 8%+ of all on-chain BTC transactions • 25% of Cash App BTC transactions happen over Lightning • 800K+ Square merchants onboarded — a new one every 8 seconds • Cash App users get 5% rewards paying at Square terminals • Square merchants get 0% fees vs the 3%+ they pay on cards • Every Cash App→Square payment creates inbound Lightning capacity for Block's node • Estimated $10M+ in routing yield earned in 2025 • Also very bullish on these swaps that @milessuter expressed today are growing @gardenfi and @flashnet which will further drive shitcoins to ZERO as they enter the bitcoin ecosystem. Then there's @Strategy. The private credit market is broken. They built a credit product paying 9–11% — structured as return of capital, not dividends. Better tax treatment than mutual funds and most credit instruments. For most people, this is a better return than real estate with far less risk and zero of the operational headache. BITCOIN IS THE CONNECTIVE TISSUE BRO

@BitcoinatBlock @blocks @milessuter @Square Lightning Network is scaling wonderfully!

Hear from our @blocks Bitcoin Product Lead, @milessuter, announce today over 800k @Square businesses have enabled bitcoin payments. And as you've read this far, another Square business has likely turned on ₿ (a new one every 8 seconds).

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