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      "title": "The Future Is Now: Why L402 Is the Internet-Native Payments Protocol for Agents",
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      "url": "https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-03-11-L402-for-agents/",
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      "summary": "Lightning Labs post explaining how L402 puts HTTP 402 Payment Required to work by pairing it with the Lightning Network and cryptographic authentication tokens. Any Lightning-enabled client can pay for and authenticate with an L402 API instantly, with no signup, API key or prior relationship, and the post covers updates to the L402 bLIP specification.",
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        "bitcoin",
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      "title": "The Agents Are Here and They Want to Transact: Powering the AI Economy with Lightning",
      "publisher": "Lightning Labs",
      "authors": [
        "Michael Levin"
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      "url": "https://lightning.engineering/posts/2026-02-11-ln-agent-tools/",
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      "summary": "Launch post for Lightning Agent Tools: seven composable open-source skills that let AI agents run Lightning nodes, pay L402-gated APIs, host paid endpoints and query nodes via MCP. It also introduces lnget, an L402-aware command-line HTTP client.",
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        "bitcoin"
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      "title": "AI for All: Powering APIs and Large Language Models with Lightning",
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      "authors": [
        "Olaoluwa Osuntokun",
        "Michael Levin"
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      "url": "https://lightning.engineering/posts/2023-07-05-l402-langchain/",
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      "summary": "Lightning Labs announcement of developer tools built on L402 and LangChain, including LangChainBitcoin. With these tools, agents can hold a Bitcoin balance, send and receive over Lightning, and pay for L402-gated APIs.",
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      "title": "The \"podcast:value\" Specification",
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      "authors": [
        "Dave Jones",
        "Gigi",
        "Evan Feenstra",
        "Paul Itoi"
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      "date_published": "2021-09-01",
      "url": "https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/value.md",
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      "summary": "Podcasting 2.0 specification (v1.4) for a feed-level \"value block\" that lets listeners stream near-real-time Lightning micropayments directly to creators (for example via keysend), calculated per minute of consumption.",
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        "streaming-payments",
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        "bitcoin"
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      "title": "The Bitcoin Lightning Network: Scalable Off-Chain Instant Payments",
      "publisher": "lightning.network",
      "authors": [
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        "Thaddeus Dryja"
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      "summary": "Foundational paper (draft v0.5.9.2) proposing a decentralized network of micropayment channels whose value transfers happen off-blockchain. The aim is to scale Bitcoin to high transaction volumes without custodial third parties.",
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      "summary": "Tools that give LangChain agents access to Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, including LLM agent BitcoinTools for an lnd node and an L402 HTTP API traversal wrapper.",
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        "agent-wallets"
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      "authors": [],
      "date_published": null,
      "url": "https://github.com/lightning/bolts",
      "type": "spec",
      "category": "bitcoin-lightning",
      "summary": "Repository of the BOLT specifications, which define the Lightning Network layer-2 protocol for off-chain bitcoin transfer. They cover messaging, peer channel management, transactions, onion routing and invoices.",
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        "m2m-payments"
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      "summary": "Lightning specification for a simple, extendable, QR-code-ready protocol for requesting payments over Lightning (BOLT 11 invoices).",
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        "micropayments"
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      "url": "https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/12-offer-encoding.md",
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      "summary": "Lightning specification for offers, invoice requests, invoices, invoice errors and payer proofs. It is designed to address limitations of the BOLT 11 invoice format.",
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        "bolt12",
        "bitcoin",
        "identity"
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      "authors": [],
      "date_published": null,
      "url": "https://bolt12.org/",
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      "summary": "Explainer site for BOLT 12, a protocol upgrade to the Lightning Network that enables reusable payment requests, stronger receiver privacy and better censorship resistance.",
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      "title": "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System",
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      "authors": [
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      "summary": "Foundational paper proposing purely peer-to-peer electronic cash. A proof-of-work timestamp chain solves double-spending without a trusted third party.",
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