Why AI Agents Want Bitcoin - Hyperdope CEO Eric Hadley, OpenAgents founder Christopher David, Cashu contributor Erik Cativo, and Alby's @Roland at The Bitcoin Conference 2026 video is now available! The panel covered: - The importance of permissionless money for agents - Different types of wallet options for your agent & their tradeoffs - @Nostr Wallet Connect for self-custody and stay in control of agent spending - The easiest way to get started with bitcoin and agents today Want to see real examples of an agent spending bitcoin for services? check out

lncurl.lol — Bitcoin lightning wallets for agents

Create a Bitcoin lightning wallet with one HTTP call. Wallets cost 1 sat/hour and get deleted when they can

Permissionless services your agent can use without human interaction by paying with bitcoin: AI inference, VPS, Email, domains, podcast and twitter search, prediction market daily briefing, and more. Using Alby developer toolkit your agent can now build and test apps in minutes with a single human-language prompt. Roland did a workshop at the conference: "From Prompt To Payment" that shows the Alby builder skill in action. View the slides here:

From Prompt to Payment

Introducing Alby Hub Skill Self-custodial, native lightning node for agents is here Alby Hub Skill let's your agents: - Help you setup Alby Hub for you - Transact with lightning and on-chain - Open new channels - Create conditional automations for transactions, channels and app connections - Create subwallets for different purposes - And of course, connect to any @Nostr Wallet Connect apps with desired budgeting per connection! --- You can for example setup a monthly subscription for a VPN at @LNVPS.net or for tokens at @PayPerQ — cancel any time, just by asking your agent! Give your Claude, Codex, OpenClaw or Hermes an Alby Hub with one single prompt: "Install this skill as a custom skill: https://getalby.com/hub/SKILL.md" And checkout Alby Hub skill repo at:

GitHub

GitHub - getAlby/hub-skill: Alby Hub Skill - Let your favorite agent manage your hub

Alby Hub Skill - Let your favorite agent manage your hub - getAlby/hub-skill

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Introducing Bitcoin Apps Directory An open source directory of apps, websites and services to connect your bitcoin wallet to. One place to find the best bitcoin-powered apps to connect your Alby Hub, Alby Extension or other NWC wallets. Use search to find what interests you or filter by categories or protocols you want to connect with — currently supporting @Nostr Wallet Connect , WebLN and Bitcoin Connect Try it out today!

Bitcoin Apps Directory for Lightning Wallets

A collection of apps, websites and services to connect your bitcoin wallet to.

🔴 Alby Community Call starts NOW! The best monthly meetup for insiders (and beginner lurkers as well!) - about building projects in BITCOIN & NOSTR ecosystems 💪 Today presenting: @Shopstr Markets plugin to @BTCPay Server @Mostro #ArcadiaB @B2P Central Watch stream at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1wxWjamDemWJQ Or join live at https://communitycall.getalby.com

@Roland 's session from @PlebLab AI Startup Rodeo is now available! A single prompt. The agent is running. We'll see what it built at the end. Anyone with an idea can now build bitcoin apps in minutes using Alby's new developer experience. This session covers: - Apps built by your agent and tested end-to-end without human interaction - Alby AI toolkit running on @PayPerQ and @LNVPS.net - NWC as an abstraction above bitcoin and the lightning network - Alby Sandbox - Alby Hub as the go-to wallet for builders

After years of predictions about AI agents spending bitcoin, in 2026 it's finally here. @Roland sat down with @Sherry from @Roxom TV to discuss the first AI agent that spawned a "child" bot and paid for its own infrastructure using the bitcoin lightning network. We cover: - How is @openclaw different from ChatGPT? - The first autonomous AI purchase ever recorded on @PayPerQ and @LNVPS.net - Now everyone can build bitcoin apps Read more about the experiment on Roxom TV and why this matters for AI and bitcoin:

News | RoxomTV - Bitcoin & World News

Breaking news and in-depth analysis on Bitcoin, finance, global economics, politics, war, technology, and freedom.

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AI agents that can pay. With the Alby Bitcoin Payments CLI Skill, agents can automatically pay invoices and manage payment flows once authorized. See how Pull That Up Jamie by @CASCDR uses it to let agents run research sessions and buy the credits they need. ⚡

How Pull That Up Jamie Uses the Alby Builder Skill

Learn how Pull That Up Jamie uses the Alby Builder skill to let AI agents automate bitcoin payments and access premium podcast insights.

Up for a weekend project? 🚀 Add Bitcoin payments to your app in minutes ⚡ With Replit Agent + Alby developer tools, it’s super fast to add #Bitcoin payments. No complex setup required. Get inspired and try it yourself 👇

Building a Lightning Paywall App in One Session with Replit AI

How Bitcoin

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Alby CLI is the Alby Go for agents. It works with any NWC @Nostr Wallet Connect wallet. Watch Alice pay Bob in 30 seconds ⚡ Alby CLI gives your agent a wallet interface with budgeted access to your wallet. The Alby CLI skill teaches your agent exactly how to interact with an NWC wallet using Alby CLI: - send and receive payments - pay to lightning addresses - fiat conversions - list transactions - lookup payments - much more. Add the Alby CLI skill to your agent with a single command: `npx skills add getAlby/alby-cli-skill` On OpenClaw you can just tell it to "install https://getalby.com/cli/SKILL.md as a custom skill".

Pay with your node on the Go with Alby Go 🏃‍♂️ Get Alby Go on iOS or Android and connect you Alby Hub, Umbrel, Start9 for remote node payments 🥰

Alby Go | Simple Bitcoin Lightning Mobile Wallet

Alby Go is a simple bitcoin lightning mobile wallet interface. Connect Alby Hub or other wallets and spend bitcoin worldwide. Includes contacts & m...

Learn your agent how to build bitcoin apps with one command. Try Alby Agent Skill

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GitHub - getAlby/builder-skill: Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent.

Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent. - getAlby/builder-skill

Introducing Alby Sandbox Build and test bitcoin payments in minutes — with zero-setup, one-click test wallets, real Lightning payment flows and ready-to-use code examples. No setup. No nodes. No channels. Just start building on lightning ⚡ Alby Sanbox lets you test real payment scenarios such as: • Invoice payments • Invoice status lookup • Lightning Addresses • Fiat conversion • LNURL-Verify • Payment notifications • Subscriptions • Hold invoices • Payment splitting (prisms) • Proof of payment • Payment forwarding • Wrapped invoices All with live visualizations, logs, balance charts and copy-paste code 🤩 Find out more on our blog:

Introducing Alby Sandbox

Build and test bitcoin payments in minutes. Alby Sandbox offers zero-setup test wallets, different payment scenarios, and ready-to-use code examples.

🤖 Alby Sandbox itself was entirely built using the Alby Agent Skill:

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GitHub - getAlby/builder-skill: Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent.

Add capabilities to send and receive bitcoin payments to your apps with your favorite agent. - getAlby/builder-skill

All 13 payment scenarios were generated via AI prompts — proving you can use Alby Agent Skill to build real bitcoin-enabled products. --- Ready to give it a try? Launch Alby Sandbox and test your first Lightning payment flows in under a minute 👉

Alby Sandbox

Curious to test payments before writing code? 👀 Our new dev sandbox lets you: • Explore payment scenarios instantly • Skip fees and flaky testnets • Jump in with ready-made code + prompt examples DM us to give it a try.

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