LN & AI — Contents
Program modules
14 weeks covering the complete stack of agentic payments: from Lightning Network internals to AI agent integration.
01
Lightning Network in depth
4 weeks- Payment channel architecture and HTLCs
- Routing, pathfinding and liquidity management
- Implementations: LND, CLN, LDK
- Operating nodes in production
02
APIs and ecosystem tools
3 weeks- Lightning Development Kit (LDK) in Rust
- gRPC and REST APIs for LND
- Bolt11, Bolt12 and Bolt-A for agentic payments
- Webhooks, events and payment automation
03
Artificial Intelligence for Bitcoin
4 weeks- AI agents that operate with Bitcoin
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) + Lightning
- Integration with LLMs and agent frameworks
- Use cases: micropayments, metered APIs, AI agents
04
Final project
3 weeks- Design and architecture of your agentic product
- Implementation with a Lightning + AI stack
- Presentation to the community and feedback
- Publishing as an open source project
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