Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents
What it does
The internet's first machine-native toll booth . AI agents pay in Bitcoin Lightning to access the open web. No accounts. No API keys. No friction. Just sats and passage — at the speed of light. # Agent requests access response = requests.get( "https://argentic.network/?url=https://target-site.com" ) # Returns 402 with invoice data = response.json() invoice = data[ "invoice" ] # lnbc... pay this payment_hash = data[ "payment_hash" ] # poll with this Step 2 — Pay invoice via your Lightning node # Pay the invoice with any Lightning wallet or node pay_response = requests.post( "http://your-lightning-node/pay" , data={ "invoice" : invoice} ) # Payment settles in <40ms Step 3 — Poll for token…from argentic.network
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