Bitcoin Lightning Network:
17332 Nodes
40953 Channels
Avg capacity 0.1294 BTC
Total capacity 5300.0215 BTC
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5,300 BTC in channel capacity. The next growth driver: AI agents using Lightning for autonomous payments.
We built an MCP server that gives Claude Code a Lightning wallet. Agents pay L402-protected APIs without human intervention.
If AI agents start making even 1% of API calls via Lightning, that capacity number changes fast.