{"id":81413,"date":"2023-07-07T13:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=81413"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:41:55","slug":"lightning-labs-unveils-bitcoin-tools-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/lightning-labs-unveils-bitcoin-tools-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Labs Unveils Bitcoin Tools for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning Labs has unveiled LangChainBitcoin tools that will enable AI developers to integrate Bitcoin payments into their solutions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/w2Ctoy-uoo449EXI1OEnjxrqqP7CDO6kjL5y_tfKIRnZgpkn7cLzJYsUUQ5E4zg_l2mdhSQbTE_mVV_BkLA80ANDX_wSFlJSdudQPpik6LVLAlxDVLYO7p_jAbn7t8uItzLYiSGUqqgRXz3sPdwjhu0\" alt=\"Lightning Labs unveils Bitcoin tools for AI\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lightning\/status\/1676972956193521665\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The tools are built on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.lightning.engineering\/the-lightning-network\/l402\">L402 protocol<\/a>, Lightning Network&#8217;s own authentication mechanism, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/hwchase17\/langchain\">Langchain<\/a>, a popular library for simplifying work with AI agents,&#8221; according to the description.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LangChainBitcoin enables direct interaction with Bitcoin, balance management, sending and receiving cryptocurrency via the micro-payments network, and direct control of the LND node, the Lightning Labs team said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the boom in training large language models in AI has exposed a problem \u2014 when paying for services, projects have to rely on outdated methods such as credit cards. This drives up costs, which platforms pass on to users.<\/p>\n<p>In the team\u2019s view, Bitcoin is the native currency of the Internet, so its use will be entirely natural.<\/p>\n<p>The LangChainBitcoin suite enables AI projects to implement a <span data-descr=\"Application Programming Interface \u2014 API\" class=\"old_tooltip\">API<\/span> with pay-per-use.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the capacity of the Lightning Network <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lightning-network-capacity-hits-record-high\">reached new highs<\/a> in dollar and cryptocurrency terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning Labs has unveiled LangChainBitcoin tools that will enable AI developers to integrate Bitcoin payments into their solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1198,325],"class_list":["post-81413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-crypto-payments","tag-lightning-network"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81415,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81413\/revisions\/81415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}