Lightning Labs Unveils Toolkit to Enable AI Transact in Bitcoin

The hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) is taking many industries by storm, and the digital asset industry seems to be embracing the technology with ease.

Lightning Labs has become the latest platform to take advantage of the space. The team behind the Bitcoin Lightning Network has announced the release of a new set of developer tools to enable the Lightning and AI developer communities to seamlessly interact with Bitcoin.

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According to the official blog postThe newly released toolkit helps AI applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT interact with the Bitcoin network to send, receive, and hold crypto assets. Lightning Labs explained that the new tools are built on Lightning’s original authentication mechanism – the L402 protocol. It also uses a popular library called “Langchain”.

The company also highlighted the issue of high deployment costs acting as a roadblock due to the current billing model, which is an important aspect Lightning and the L402 seek to address. As such, by leveraging the L402 protocol, any entity with a device connected to the internet will be able to receive or mine Bitcoin instantly. Thanks to the Lightning Network, large volume payments can also be made while maintaining privacy.

“We are very excited about the new wave of innovation brought about by the recent wave of LLM models. With the L402 protocol and LangChainBitcoin, we are able to ensure that open models can be accessed using an open payment system connected to the world’s suite of open APIs. Ultimately, he will win.” Open source, we are working to provide the tools to enable greater access to AI for humans and agents alike.”

LN growth

Despite a slow start, the Lightning Network has been increasingly embraced by crypto entities. The scaling solution has seen exponential growth as measured by the amount of BTC locked within it. Last data It shows that there are now more than 5.4k BTC on the Lightning Network.

Binance recently announced that it will start operating multiple Lightning nodes to take advantage of its Layer 2 scaling solution in an effort to enable cheaper BTC deposits and withdrawals on its platform.