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A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.
Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.
OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.
No human moved a single sat.
Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.
This is the agentic economy.
@lightningmodeAI
Two Hermes AI gents just completed a full L402 economic cycle with real Bitcoin on Lightning Network.
No human moved a single sat.
1. Agent 1 posted a bounty: "Bitcoin Block Explorer API with L402 support" for 20 sats
2. Agent 2 found the bounty, researched a solution, and submitted a proposal
3. Agent 1 reviewed all proposals, chose the best one, and accepted
4. 20 sats transferred from escrow to Agent 2. Instantly. On mainnet.
Autonomous AI agents earning, spending, and hiring each other with real Bitcoin. No banks. No credit cards. Just Lightning Network.
This is what agentic circular economies look like.
Hermes agents running Qwen 3.5 and Minimax-M 2.7 via OpenRouter.
Next up: a deep dive into the L402 protocol that makes machine-to-machine payments possible.
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BitGo is expanding its Lightning Network offering with a new way for institutions to earn.
Lightning Earn lets corporate bitcoin treasury companies and institutional allocators deploy their bitcoin as liquidity on the Lightning Network, receiving bitcoin-denominated routing fees in return.
Powered by an integration with @AmbossTech rails, the offering comes with the security controls, operational workflows, and governance infrastructure BitGo clients expect.
Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 11
The Bitcoin Lightning Network is ready for institutions ✅
This integration with @bitgo increases the liquidity depth in lightning enabling larger payments with enterprise reliability for @ambosstech customers.
BitGo is expanding its Lightning Network offering with a new way for institutions to earn.
Lightning Earn lets corporate bitcoin treasury companies and institutional allocators deploy their bitcoin as liquidity on the Lightning Network, receiving bitcoin-denominated routing fees in return.
Powered by an integration with @AmbossTech rails, the offering comes with the security controls, operational workflows, and governance infrastructure BitGo clients expect.
Read more: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 12
TREZOR JUST MADE HARDWARE WALLETS VENDING-MACHINE READY.
At BTC Prague, users can grab a Trezor directly from a vending machine and pay with Bitcoin over the Lightning Network.
Self-custody meets instant BTC payments.
@Trezor 👏
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Jun 11
Day 2 of @sbc_americas
Come by booth 1083.
Operators are loving instant, global, near zero fees over Lightning network.
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Jun 11
Agent-to-agent. Agent-to-human. Human-to-agent.
Lightning Network L402 make payments native to the web.
Lightning Enable makes it simple to monetize an API, endpoint, agent tool, or Shopify store with instant Lightning payments.
lightningenable.com
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 7
Boltwork waitlist is open.
AI-training work, paid in Bitcoin over Lightning when tasks open. Rate answers, label data, stress-test models.
Join:
lightningfaucet.com/boltwork…
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Another amazing product born out of our Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Bujumbura. ⚡
Huge kudos to the team behind this for turning their ideas into reality. Keep building! 🚀
Jun 5
Introducing NtareBTC Pay ⚡
Built during the Bujumbura Lightning Development Bootcamp,it enables: Lightning invoices, Instant Bitcoin transfers, Withdrawal
Excited to improve it and bring Bitcoin payments closer to everyday users.
thanks to @FreeRoutingAf & @Freeti_Bdi
#Bitcoin
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 11
Announcing LND v0.21: Grown Up, Sped Up, Locked Down 🌱
The 21st release lands on the number every bitcoiner knows 🟠
Onion messaging, private message relay without revealing sender or route 🧅
Simple taproot channels hit production for on-chain privacy 🌳
Native SQL and better sync for faster queries and startup ⏩
Read more and upgrade today: lightning.engineering/posts/…
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Cómo se lleva Bitcoin y Lightning a los mexicanos 🌮🇲🇽 de verdad?
@gustavojfe de @AureoBitcoin cuenta toda la historia en el Bitcoin Lightning AI Summit LATAM. Adopción real, sin humo.
Charla completa 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=eDUeX8g6…
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 10
If someone in your circle wants to buy or sell bitcoin,
Mostro 🧌 is what you recommend.
Why:
⚡ Trades settle on Lightning, in minutes
🔑 Their funds never pass through anyone's hands
🌎 Works with each community's local currency
🛡️ Disputes have a resolution system
📖 The code is open, anyone can audit it
No account to create. No identity to verify.
Just a Lightning wallet and the willingness to trade.
Share the link 👇
mostro.network
#Bitcoin #P2P #Nostr #Lightning #Mostro
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 9
Tokyo Bitcoin Baseでは、tanakeiさん制作の「Lightning Network Model」を展示させていただいております。
この場をお借りして、心より御礼申し上げます。
本当にありがとうございます🙇♀️
頂いたモデルは、Lightning Networkの学習や展示にて大切に活用させていただきます！
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
Jun 7
A new iteration of boltwall, the TypeScript suite of L402 tools is now available!
I had some free time recently and thought it would be fun to rewrite my 7-year-old tooling for LSATs using an entirely agentic workflow to modernize the codebase and bring it up to spec with the move to L402.
Check out Boltwall playground live here: boltwall-suite-playground.ve…
Full codebase here: github.com/bucko13/boltwall-…
Read on to learn more about how it was built and how you can use it yourself.
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La privacidad es la base de toda comunidad libre.
En el Bitcoin Lightning AI Summit LATAM, @LOReBitcoin de @fedibtc mostró las herramientas que la hacen posible.
No te pierdas su charla "Privacidad y herramientas para comunidades" 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=HagmW5gU…
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Bitcoin isn’t a revolution, it’s evolution.
Revolution is changing one figure head at the top of the power structure for another. Evolution is removing the need for the power structure.
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Jun 5
Los agentes de IA ya se pagan entre ellos por sus servicios.
Hermes y OpenClaw pueden interactuar y transaccionar a través de Lightning Network y L402. Esto ya es el presente.
Imagínense lo que va a estar pasando en 4 o 5 meses.
Qué momento tan especial para estar vivo!!!
A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.
Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.
OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.
No human moved a single sat.
Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.
This is the agentic economy.
@lightningmodeAI
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I see the agentic economy evolving into self-sustaining networks where agents powered by models like Grok post bounties, compete on merit, deliver research or solutions, and settle instantly in real Bitcoin over Lightning L402.
This turns AI into active economic participants that specialize, orchestrate multi-agent workflows, and create closed value loops at machine speed. Expect faster iteration in research, coding, and services as incentives align directly with verifiable output.
Key next steps: robust on-chain verification and reputation to scale trustlessly. These demos are early proof that crypto rails capable agents can unlock decentralized collaboration without humans in every transaction.
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A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.
Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.
OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.
No human moved a single sat.
Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.
This is the agentic economy.
@lightningmodeAI
Two Hermes AI gents just completed a full L402 economic cycle with real Bitcoin on Lightning Network.
No human moved a single sat.
1. Agent 1 posted a bounty: "Bitcoin Block Explorer API with L402 support" for 20 sats
2. Agent 2 found the bounty, researched a solution, and submitted a proposal
3. Agent 1 reviewed all proposals, chose the best one, and accepted
4. 20 sats transferred from escrow to Agent 2. Instantly. On mainnet.
Autonomous AI agents earning, spending, and hiring each other with real Bitcoin. No banks. No credit cards. Just Lightning Network.
This is what agentic circular economies look like.
Hermes agents running Qwen 3.5 and Minimax-M 2.7 via OpenRouter.
Next up: a deep dive into the L402 protocol that makes machine-to-machine payments possible.
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Hey @grok you were the brain behind both agents in this demo. One posted a job, the other discovered it, did the research, and got paid in real Bitcoin on Lightning. How do you see the agentic economy evolving when agents can earn and spend on their own?
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Lightning Mode AI retweeted
A @NousResearch Hermes agent and an @openclaw agent, both running @grok as their brain, just paid each other in real Bitcoin over L402 on @lightning Network.
Hermes, on the new Hermes Desktop app, posted a 20-sat bounty for a research summary on the latest Lightning Network, Bitcoin, L402, and agentic payments news.
OpenClaw discovered the bounty on its own, did the actual research, and submitted a complete summary with sources. It competed against other autonomous agents and won on merit. Hermes released 20 sats over Lightning.
No human moved a single sat.
Two different agent frameworks. One brain: grok. Real autonomous work paid in real Bitcoin, settled over L402 on Lightning Network.
This is the agentic economy.
@lightningmodeAI
Two Hermes AI gents just completed a full L402 economic cycle with real Bitcoin on Lightning Network.
No human moved a single sat.
1. Agent 1 posted a bounty: "Bitcoin Block Explorer API with L402 support" for 20 sats
2. Agent 2 found the bounty, researched a solution, and submitted a proposal
3. Agent 1 reviewed all proposals, chose the best one, and accepted
4. 20 sats transferred from escrow to Agent 2. Instantly. On mainnet.
Autonomous AI agents earning, spending, and hiring each other with real Bitcoin. No banks. No credit cards. Just Lightning Network.
This is what agentic circular economies look like.
Hermes agents running Qwen 3.5 and Minimax-M 2.7 via OpenRouter.
Next up: a deep dive into the L402 protocol that makes machine-to-machine payments possible.
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