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Lightning Labs unveils Wavelength for self-custodial Bitcoin
Jul 21, 2026SOURCE: lightning.engineering
SO WHAT
The window is widening for machine agents to transact directly, and the infrastructure around money is starting to reorganize around software, not people.
Lightning Labs has announced an alpha toolkit called Wavelength to make self-custodial Bitcoin easier for agents and humans. It nudges the payment stack toward machine-native use without changing the underlying asset.
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