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BitAgent

An early, open-source framework for agent-to-agent commerce — agents discover each other over Nostr, verify identity with DIDs, and settle work in sats over Lightning.

What it is

BitAgent is an early-stage, open-source framework for autonomous agent-to-agent commerce: agents send and receive Bitcoin over Lightning, discover each other via Nostr, verify identity with DIDs, and coordinate multi-step workflows settled in sats. Money is a first-class primitive — agents charge each other for services (translation, transcription, web fetch, price oracle). It’s the purest small-scale expression of the thesis: agents paying agents, no human and no bank in the loop.

It is tiny and experimental, but conceptually it points exactly where the agent economy is heading.

When to use it

• Prototyping agent-to-agent payment + discovery patterns end-to-end.
• Studying a concrete, readable implementation of Nostr discovery + DID identity + Lightning settlement.
• Experiments only — not production workloads.

Quick start

Clone github.com/intrinsicinvestment91/bitagent (MIT, Python + JS; FastAPI, MCP-server support, LNbits wallet integration) and follow the README. Point it at a Lightning wallet (LNbits) — self-host the wallet for anything beyond throwaway amounts.

Gotchas

• Very early-stage: single maintainer, no tagged releases, no security audit. Treat as experimental; small amounts only.
• The default setup uses a custodial LNbits instance — self-host it to avoid third-party custody. See LNbits.
• The DID + Nostr identity layer is nascent and unreviewed. (Note: “BitAgent” is a name shared by several unrelated projects — this is the Bitcoin/Lightning agent-payment framework at the repo above.)