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AI agents can use hard money now. Let them send, receive and pay with bitcoin.

Enable Agentic Payments

Enable Agentic Payments

Enable Agentic Payments

Monetize MCP

Monetize MCP

Monetize MCP

Bitcoin MCP

Alby Bitcoin Payments MCP is the easiest way to enable agentic bitcoin payments in your apps

Connect a wallet with ease

Instantly connect agents to your lightning wallet using Nostr Wallet Connect.

Multi-protocol Support

NWC, LNURL, and L402, enable extensive payments programmability.

Plug‑and‑play any agent you wish

Works out of the box with Claude, Goose, Cursor, Cline, n8n, and more.

Features

Full-featured wallet control for your autonomous agents

Wallet management

Access wallet capabilities and Lightning node details directly from your AI conversations.

Secure connection

Request customizable Lightning invoices with amounts, expiry times, descriptions, and metadata programmatically.

Lightning invoices

Pay Lightning invoices instantly, including zero-amount invoices with specified amounts for flexible transactions.

Instant payments

Check real-time wallet balances and transaction history without leaving your AI workflow.

Balance tracking

Look up invoice details using BOLT-11 invoice strings or payment hashes for complete transaction visibility.

Payment lookup

Built on NWC.dev for secure wallet communication without compromising your keys.

Get Started with Alby MCP

Get Started with Alby MCP

Get Started with Alby MCP

How to start

How to start?

# Add to claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alby": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getalby/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NWC_CONNECTION_STRING": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}
# Add to claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alby": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getalby/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NWC_CONNECTION_STRING": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}
# Add to claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alby": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getalby/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NWC_CONNECTION_STRING": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}
# Add to claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "alby": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@getalby/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NWC_CONNECTION_STRING": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

01

Choose your setup

Use Alby’s hosted MCP server (no install needed) or run it locally for full control.

02

Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet

Get your NWC connection string from Alby Hub or any other NWC wallet.

03

Plug it into your AI agent

Point your agent to the MCP endpoint and authenticate using your NWC secret.

04

Start using tools

Generate invoices, make payments, and access paywalled content — all through simple tool calls.

See Detailed Steps

See Detailed Steps

See Detailed Steps

PaidMCP

Monetize your tools with PaidMCP and transform them into revenue-generating tools

import { PaidMcpServer, MemoryStorage } from "@getalby/paidmcp";

// Configure your NWC URL - should be "nostr+walletconnect://..."
const nwcUrl = process.env.NWC_URL;
// Configure storage of unused paid tool requests
const storage = new MemoryStorage();
// use PaidMcpServer instead of McpServer
const server = new PaidMcpServer(
  { name: "your-mcp-server" },
  { nwcUrl, storage }
);
import { PaidMcpServer, MemoryStorage } from "@getalby/paidmcp";

// Configure your NWC URL - should be "nostr+walletconnect://..."
const nwcUrl = process.env.NWC_URL;
// Configure storage of unused paid tool requests
const storage = new MemoryStorage();
// use PaidMcpServer instead of McpServer
const server = new PaidMcpServer(
  { name: "your-mcp-server" },
  { nwcUrl, storage }
);
import { PaidMcpServer, MemoryStorage } from "@getalby/paidmcp";

// Configure your NWC URL - should be "nostr+walletconnect://..."
const nwcUrl = process.env.NWC_URL;
// Configure storage of unused paid tool requests
const storage = new MemoryStorage();
// use PaidMcpServer instead of McpServer
const server = new PaidMcpServer(
  { name: "your-mcp-server" },
  { nwcUrl, storage }
);
import { PaidMcpServer, MemoryStorage } from "@getalby/paidmcp";

// Configure your NWC URL - should be "nostr+walletconnect://..."
const nwcUrl = process.env.NWC_URL;
// Configure storage of unused paid tool requests
const storage = new MemoryStorage();
// use PaidMcpServer instead of McpServer
const server = new PaidMcpServer(
  { name: "your-mcp-server" },
  { nwcUrl, storage }
);

Instant settlement

Get paid immediately in bitcoin via the lightning network — no waiting periods.

Seamless monetization

Convert your MCP server to paid service in a few minutes.

Usage-based pricing

Pay Lightning invoices instantly, including zero-amount invoices with specified amounts for flexible transactions.

Built on open protocols

Built on open standards — works with any AI agents and NWC lightning wallets.

Try PaidMCP

Try PaidMCP

Try PaidMCP

NWC

AI + Nostr Wallet Connect is match made in heaven for your agents

Zero-custody solution

Get paid immediately in bitcoin via the lightning network — no waiting periods.

Budget & permissions control

Convert your MCP server to paid service in a few minutes.

Agent's own sub-wallet

Pay Lightning invoices instantly, including zero-amount invoices with specified amounts for flexible transactions.

Sustained connection

Built on open standards — works with any AI agents and NWC lightning wallets.

Visit nwc.dev

Visit nwc.dev

Visit nwc.dev

Get Alby Hub

Get Alby Hub

Get Alby Hub

Examples

Agents integration examples

Alby MCP + Claude

Your personal agent with a bitcoin lightning wallet

Get Started with Claude

Get Started with Claude

Get Started with Claude

Alby MCP + Goose

Control your wallet through terminal or the Goose Desktop app

Get Started with Goose

Get Started with Goose

Get Started with Goose

Alby MCP + n8n

Create powerful Bitcoin + AI workflows

Get Started with Goose

Get Started with Goose

Get Started with Goose

Tutorials

Video tutorials

Vibe coding bitcoin games

This video shows how to interact with your wallet in natural language and how to build a bitcoin game without writing any line of code using Goose, Bitcoin Connect, Cline, Google Gemini etc.

Watch Video

Watch Video

Watch Video

Connect your Alby Hub wallet to an AI-powered workflow in N8N

This demo shows you how to connect your Alby Hub wallet to an AI-powered workflow in N8N and interact with your wallet through a chat interface.

Watch Video

Watch Video

Watch Video

Example apps

Example bitcoin + AI apps. Not into MCP servers? No worries! Vibe code AI apps and let users connect their wallets with NWC.

Freepilot — agent that solves your Github issues for sats

LNFly — prototype bitcoin apps with a single prompt