Argentic - Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents
Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents
Argentic is the internet's first machine-native toll booth, enabling AI agents to pay for web access in Bitcoin Lightning. With no accounts or API keys, agents simply send a request, receive a 10-sat invoice, and pay automatically in under 40 milliseconds. Each payment grants a 1-hour session token, allowing frictionless access to any URL. Designed for machine-to-machine payments, Argentic is so cheap and fast that it becomes the path of least resistance for AI scraping agents.
No accounts. No API keys. No friction. Just sats and passage — at the speed of light.