Autonomous software is going to transact, and it needs money that's final, divisible to the sat, and permissionless — which is a description of Lightning. The hard part isn't the rail, it's control: you can't give an agent your keys. Conduit is a self-hosted, non-custodial SDK that sits between your LND node and your agents. The operator keeps the node and keys; each agent gets a budget and a policy it can't exceed, enforced server-side before anything hits Lightning. Per-tx / daily / rate / ...

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