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Minibits Ippon
A Cashu wallet built from the ground up for AI agents — create and fund a short-lived, single-purpose wallet in one HTTP call or CLI command.
What it is
Ippon is a minimalistic Cashu (ecash + Lightning) wallet designed from the ground up for autonomous agents, from the team behind the Minibits mobile wallet. An agent creates a wallet via a single HTTP call or CLI command, funds it over Lightning, and transacts in seconds — no channel management at the agent layer, because the mint handles Lightning and the agent just holds bearer ecash. It runs as a hosted REST API server or a local CLI, and a companion minibits_ippon_mcp wraps the API for MCP clients.
It is the canonical agent-native Cashu wallet: the lightest path to giving an agent a spendable balance.
When to use it
- Spinning up short-lived, single-purpose, low-balance wallets for individual agents or tasks.
- Cashu-based agent payments where you want an HTTP/CLI interface, not a mobile app.
- Wiring ecash payments into an MCP-capable agent via
minibits_ippon_mcp.
Quick start
Run the Ippon API server (or use a hosted instance) and create a wallet with a single HTTP call or the CLI, per the repo README at github.com/minibits-cash/minibits_ippon; add minibits_ippon_mcp to expose it to MCP clients. The Minibits mobile wallet (Android) is a separate, human-facing product.
Gotchas
- Ippon is alpha and fully custodial — the project’s own guidance is “use at your own risk, small amounts only.” Treat wallets as disposable and single-purpose.
- Security is intentionally minimal (simple access keys, no token refresh); the real safeguards are rate limits, max-balance caps, and per-transaction thresholds.
- Standard Cashu custodial-mint trust applies — the backing mint can fail or rug. See Cashu.