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Show HN: Giving an AI Agent a Wallet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ9rf5HtuhQ

We've been exploring the intersection of AI and internet-native payments. Here's a demo of what we've built:

Our agent starts out pretty basic - it can chat, but can't access the internet. Then we give it a lightning wallet.

This simple addition, combined with the L402 protocol, opens up new possibilities: * The agent can now pay to use external tools * It accesses a web scraping service protected by L402 * It scrapes web content and summarizes it * You can watch its wallet balance change in real-time

L402 is key here. It's a protocol that implements internet-native paywalls, allowing for seamless, programmatic payments.

We've put together a short video demonstrating this process: https://youtu.be/wQ9rf5HtuhQ

For those interested in the technical details, we've open-sourced the code: https://replit.com/t/fewsats/czjf93/repls/Web-Scraping-Agent...

Key components: * AI agent: A large language model with chat capabilities * Wallet: Lightning Network integration for payments * L402 protocol: Enables internet-native paywalls * External tool: A web scraping service protected by L402 * User interface: Shows the agent's thoughts and wallet balance

This demo shows an AI agent using one pre-integrated L402 tool. Next, we're working on agents that can discover and use any L402 tool on the fly. What possibilities do you see in this approach?

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