Alby Hub

Self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning node and wallet that apps (including agents) can control over Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC).

Category

Finance & Payments

Website

https://getalby.com/alby-hub

Repository

https://github.com/getAlby/hub

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

Apache-2.0

Maintainer

Alby

Added

2026-10-15

Updated

2026-10-16

Last verified

2026-10-16

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• lightning
• bitcoin
• wallet
• nwc
• self-hosted

Related

• Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC): Open protocol (Nostr NIP-47, draft) that lets clients and apps access a remote Bitcoin Lightning wallet in a standardized way.
• Lightning Agent Tools: Lightning Labs toolkit of seven composable skills plus an MCP server letting agents run a Lightning node, pay for L402 APIs and host paid endpoints.
• L402 (Lightning HTTP 402): Lightning Labs standard for paying for and authenticating to APIs with Bitcoin Lightning payments; Aperture is the reference reverse proxy.
• Alby MCP Server: MCP server that connects a Bitcoin Lightning wallet to an LLM via Nostr Wallet Connect, with knowledge of NWC, LNURL and L402.

Guides & comparisons

• Give an agent a Lightning wallet with Nostr Wallet Connect (Guide): How to let an agent pay Lightning invoices and check its balance through Nostr Wallet Connect (NIP-47), using a budget-capped connection from Alby Hub or LNbits, the Alby JS SDK or the Alby MCP server.

Sources

• https://github.com/getAlby/hub

Machine-readable

• JSON
• Markdown
• Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)