Show HN: Giving an AI Agent a Wallet (opens in new tab)

We've been exploring the intersection of AI and internet-native payments. Here's a demo of what we've built:

Our agent starts out pretty basic - it can chat, but can't access the internet. Then we give it a lightning wallet.

This simple addition, combined with the L402 protocol, opens up new possibilities:

1.The agent can now pay to use external tools

2.It accesses a web scraping service protected by L402

3.It scrapes web content and summarizes it

4.You can watch its wallet balance change in real-time

L402 is key here. It's a protocol that implements internet-native paywalls, allowing for seamless, programmatic payments.

We've put together a short video demonstrating this process: https://youtu.be/wQ9rf5HtuhQ

For those interested in the technical details, we've open-sourced the code: https://replit.com/t/fewsats/czjf93/repls/Web-Scraping-Agent...

Key components:

AI agent: A large language model with chat capabilities

Wallet: Lightning Network integration for payments

L402 protocol: Enables internet-native paywalls

External tool: A web scraping service protected by L402

User interface: Shows the agent's thoughts and wallet balance

This demo shows an AI agent using one pre-integrated L402 tool. Next, we're working on agents that can discover and use any L402 tool on the fly. What possibilities do you see in this approach?