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.

Category

MCP Servers

Website

https://github.com/getAlby/mcp

Repository

https://github.com/getAlby/mcp

Status

active

Pricing

open-source

License

Apache-2.0

Maintainer

Alby

Added

2026-10-16

Updated

2026-10-16

Last verified

2026-10-16

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• mcp
• lightning
• bitcoin
• nwc
• payments

Agent access

MCP endpoint

https://mcp.getalby.com/mcp

Auth

other

Notes

Pass the NWC connection secret as a Bearer token or `nwc` query parameter. SSE at https://mcp.getalby.com/sse; can also run locally.

Related

• Alby Hub: Self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning node and wallet that apps (including agents) can control over Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC).
• 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.
• L402 (Lightning HTTP 402): Lightning Labs standard for paying for and authenticating to APIs with Bitcoin Lightning payments; Aperture is the reference reverse proxy.
• 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.

Sources

• https://github.com/getAlby/mcp

Machine-readable

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