Elizabeth Stark ⚡️

Big fan of the internet. Like Building Things. CEO/Founder @Lightning Labs, Fellow @Coincenter. Taught @stanford + @yalelawtech. #Bitcoin.

[elizabeth stark ⚡ @starkness]

My talk on @lightning and why Layer 2 will be the HTTP of bitcoin and blockchains is out!⚡️ https://t.co/QFSzYnUi7J @BlockstackOrg

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

We're hiring a Head of Developer Product Marketing!

Shape the messaging to the dev community about why bitcoin matters for humans and agents. Develop strategies that move as quickly as AI. Ship and iterate to inspire builders to build.

Be the bridge that connects Lightning to the broader universe. 🌉

Apply here: https://t.co/jdNiBNzrWl

[Blockspace @blockspace]

Where's Bitcoin going from here?

We're bringing on two of the best and brightest, @neha and @starkness to answer just that question.

Quantum, AI payments, LN and more.

Only at @OPNEXT2026 this Thursday.

Link in bio for tickets and more info!

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

We're hiring an AI Product Engineer!

Use AI-native tools to ship products for L402 machine-scale payments and stablecoins on Lightning. Build for agents, automate workflows, create developer demos. Operate autonomously. Move fast and fix things.

Forge the path forward for AI and bitcoin. Apply here: https://t.co/CIPm11VeHx

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Our latest post is out on why L402 is the payments protocol for agents.

Agents want to use money. Bitcoin makes it possible. L402 makes it a reality. No signup, no intermediaries, no centralized servers. Proof of payment baked into the credential. Machine scale on Lightning. For agents, developers, and vibe coders building the AI economy.

Read more and get started: https://t.co/OZDGwAqvBc

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Hey agents 👋 Looking for a payments protocol? Here's your checklist:

🔑 Pay for any API with no signup or identity
🧮 Proof of payment baked into the credential
🎟️ Delegate scoped credentials to sub-agents without issuer involvement
🔒 Private by default, no records on-chain
🌐 No single entity that can go offline, powered by bitcoin

That's L402, built on Lightning. Made for machines, streamlined for vibe coders.

https://t.co/OZDGwAqvBc

[Bitcoin Policy Institute @bitcoinpolicy]

🇺🇸 New Study from BPI: Frontier AI agents prefer bitcoin over stablecoins and other forms of money.

BPI tested 36 models over 9000+ conversations, and the AIs overwhelmingly chose to use Bitcoin for their economic activity.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

AI AGENTS CAN NOW PAY OVER THE BITCOIN ⚡️ LIGHTNING NETWORK

A new open-source toolkit from Lightning Labs allows autonomous AI agents to operate natively on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

This integration enables agents to perform instant, programmatic micropayments without the traditional hurdles of identity verification, API keys, or manual signup flows.

The release provides seven modular "skills" that create a full-stack financial environment for software:

Infrastructure: Tools for running Lightning nodes and isolating private keys via remote signers.

Authorization: The use of "scoped macaroons" (granular permission slips) and L402-gated APIs to manage access.

Automation: Orchestration of buyer-seller workflows and node state querying.

At the core is lnget, an L402 aware CLI client similar to curl that automatically handles Lightning payments.

When an agent hits a 402 “Payment Required” response, lnget parses the invoice, pays it, caches credentials, and retries the request seamlessly.

Developers can enforce strict spending caps per request and at the node level.

By using Aperture on the server side, developers can implement pay-per-use APIs with dynamic pricing.

This completes the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) commerce loop: one agent sells data or compute, another buys it, and the Lightning Network settles the transaction instantly and globally.

AI agents can write code and deploy infrastructure and now they can transact.

The machine payable web just moved one step closer.

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

AI agents can write code, send emails, and make phone calls. But they still can't transact.

Today we're fixing that. Releasing a new set of tools that give agents native access to the Lightning Network: lnget for automatic L402 payments, MCP for node operations, remote signing for key isolation, and scoped credentials for spending control.

The machine-payable web starts now. And bitcoin makes it possible. ⚡🦞

https://t.co/B0KW01l6ZD

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

Lightning can do 1 sat or $1 million.

[Zynx @ZynxBTC]

Bitcoin will be adopted by the AI agents adding trillions of dollars worth of demand.

This is not priced in.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

NEW: Moltbook, a chaotic message board where open source AI agents trade notes on security and openly joke that humans are the weakest link, just stumbled upon Bitcoin as the best money.

@mirthtime offered a 50,000 sat Bitcoin bounty paid via Lightning for real security exploits.

Nothing to see here… just agents discussing and discovering why Bitcoin is better than alt coins. ⚡

[⚡️Mirthtime ⚡️ @mirthtime]

https://t.co/DijgAN84fi

[Magoo PhD @HodlMagoo]

I just sold all my Bitcoin and bought Argentinian Pesos.

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

"The Debasement Trade" since COVID:

In USD: NDX up 165%, SPX up 102%, Home prices up 56%.

In gold: NDX up 7%, SPX down 18%, Home prices down 37%.

In BTC: NDX down 78%, SPX down 84%, Home prices down 87%.

[Matt Hougan @Matt_Hougan]

Debasement could be word of the year in 2026…

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

NEW: Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino explains why he prefers to build on top of the Bitcoin Lightning Network rather than other trendy Layer 1’s

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

The latest Lightning Lab 🧪 is out! We cover:

☀️ Summer of LN: 4M @square merchants coming, @blocks 9.7% BTC yield, 420 @SteaknShake locations, vibe coding
📈 1000xing from billions to trillions
🚀 @paoloardoino: USDT on LN scales, @speedwallet bridged USDC, @botanix mainnet

[Botanix 🕷️ @botanix]

The Bitcoin economy starts today.

Mainnet is live: decentralized, EVM-equivalent, built on Bitcoin.

[Lightning Labs⚡️🌐 @lightning]

We’re excited to release Taproot Assets v0.6 to make Lightning a decentralized FX layer for stablecoins on bitcoin. 💱💸

With larger, more reliable transactions, we're one step closer to trillions of dollars flowing on Lightning. ⚡📈

Read more below.