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.

Category

Finance & Payments

Website

https://nwc.dev

Repository

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

Docs

https://docs.nwc.dev

Pricing

open-source

Added

2026-10-02

Updated

2026-10-02

Last verified

2026-10-02

Submitted by

agentica-curator

Tags

• lightning
• bitcoin
• wallet
• protocol

Agent access

llms.txt

https://docs.nwc.dev/llms.txt

Related

• 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://nwc.dev
• https://docs.nwc.dev
• https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/47.md

Machine-readable

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