Morning Edition · Thursday, July 23, 2026Published at 1:28 AM EDT · New York
Lightning Labs Launches Wavelength to Let AI Agents Transact on Bitcoin
The tool exposes a Lightning Network interface to autonomous software through the Model Context Protocol, as asset managers argue agent-driven payments could become crypto's core use case.
Lightning Labs released Wavelength, a developer tool it describes as making Bitcoin payments straightforward for both engineers and autonomous software agents, Bitcoin Magazine reported. Available immediately on the Signet and testnet envir…
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