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2 source posts analyzed· 2026-07-16T11:50:27+00:00Stablecoins on Lightning? Now we can truly have our cake and eat it too! Who wouldn’t want a slice of that?
· 2026-07-16T05:45:37.290000+00:00lightning-agent-tools: how Lightning Labs is turning LND nodes into infrastructure for autonomous AI payments (L402, lnget, Aperture, MCP) Lightning Labs open-sourced lightning-agent-tools in February 2026 — a toolkit for AI agents to transact autonomously on Lightning. The technical stack: lnget — like curl but Lightning-aware. Detects HTTP 402 responses, pays the invoice, caches the macaroon, retries. Fully automatic. Aperture — reverse proxy that turns any API into a pay-per-use Lightning endpoint. Full agent-to-agent commerce loop. Remote signing — keys live on a separate signer machine. Agent handles payments but never touches private keys. Scoped macaroons — cryptographic spend limits