Conduit: non-custodial Lightning payments for AI agents (your node, your keys) (opens in new tab)

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 / ...