Новый инструмент от Lightning Labs: ИИ-агенты получают доступ к Lightning Network без идентификации Translation: New Tool from Lightning Labs: AI Agents Gain Access to Lightning Network without Identification

Lightning Labs has released an open-source toolkit designed to provide AI agents with direct access to the Lightning Network.

Michael Levin, the head of product development at the company, stated that the new solutions enable agents to interact directly with Bitcoin’s payment system without the need for identity verification, API keys, or registration.

The available repository includes seven «skills» for artificial intelligence, which cover operations with nodes, remote key isolation, credentials, restricted access payments, hosted paid endpoints, and node status queries.

As part of this initiative, the Lightning Labs team introduced the lnget command-line HTTP client, which supports the L402 protocol.

This tool can automatically analyze a fund transfer request, pay the corresponding Lightning invoice, and receive cryptographic confirmation of the transaction.

«The explosive growth of agent capabilities has highlighted a critical gap. Agents can read documentation, write code, and call APIs, but they still struggle with making payments. Traditional financial systems, relied upon by people, including credit cards, bank accounts, and identity-based payment systems, are fundamentally incompatible with how agents operate,» the company explained.

L402 is designed to address this issue, and the tool is positioned as infrastructure for an «automatic payment network.»

The launch by Lightning Labs comes amid a broader trend of increasing automation in artificial intelligence. Recently, American exchange Coinbase introduced Agentic Wallets—an infrastructure of wallets designed for autonomous AI agents.

Payment company Stripe also announced a preview version of a «machine payment» tool.

It’s worth noting that in February, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao predicted the era of AI agents in the crypto industry.