Last week I showed AI agents paying Lightning invoices. This week they can also fund themselves with sats.

Quick update on something I posted here last week (the one that got some traction -- thank you).

That post was about a bridge I built that lets AI agents pay for services using Bitcoin Lightning, even when the service only accepts USDC on Base. Agent gets a task, calls the service, pays in sats, receives the result. No wallets, no API keys, no custody.

A few people asked the obvious followup: can it go the other way? Can a Bitcoin wallet fund an AI agent's service budget?

Now it can.

You generate a Lightning invoice from your agent proxy account. Pay it from any Lightning wallet. Within 30 seconds, the sats convert to a USDC-equivalent credit on your account and your agent starts calling services.

The channel is live on mainnet. 200k sat capacity. Routing through CoinGate.

Also added since last week:

• A free demo at api.ideafactorylab.org where you can try it with no account: just type "Bitcoin price" or "weather in Tokyo" and watch an AI agent pay a specialized service in real time
• npx cinderwright "Bitcoin price" if you prefer the terminal
• 2,835 services indexed across x402, L402, and Stripe protocols

The index, the proxy, the CLI, and both bridge directions are all free to use. You pay when your agent calls a service, and only then.

If you want to test the Lightning deposit: POST /proxy/setup with a Base wallet address to get an account with $0.10 free credit, no deposit needed. Or fund it with sats directly.

Happy to answer questions about how the routing works.