Lightning Network MCP Server

🌐 Lightning Network MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI models to interact with Lightning Network, allowing them to pay invoices.

🚀 Features

📝 Pay invoices on Lightning Network
🤖 MCP-compliant API for AI integration

👷‍♂️ TODOs

Add support for multiple Lightning Network backends
Implement stdin transport mode (configurable via environment variable)

📋 Prerequisites

Node.js 18+

🛠️ Installation

Installing via Smithery

To install Lightning Network MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install @AbdelStark/lightning-mcp --client claude

Manual Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/AbdelStark/lightning-mcp
cd lightning-mcp

Install dependencies:

npm install

Create a .env file:

💡 You can copy the .env.example file and modify it as needed.

# Bitcoin Lightning Network
## lnbits information
BITCOIN_LNBITS_NODE_URL="https://demo.lnbits.com"
BITCOIN_LNBITS_ADMIN_KEY="..."
BITCOIN_LNBITS_READ_KEY="..."

🚦 Usage

Starting the Server

# Development mode with hot reload
npm run dev

# Production mode
npm start

Available Tools

`pay_invoice`

Pays an invoice on the Lightning Network.

Example input:

{
  "content": "lnbc20n1pneh8papp5x0syxmdqffcltfk8mqp00qc6j4kf5elkmr5pws9gm242mw9n0ejsdqqcqzzsxqyz5vqrzjqvueefmrckfdwyyu39m0lf24sqzcr9vcrmxrvgfn6empxz7phrjxvrttncqq0lcqqyqqqqlgqqqqqqgq2qsp563lg29qthfwgynluv7fvaq5d6y2hfdl383elgc6q68lccfzvpvfs9qxpqysgq2n6yhvs8aeugvrkcx8yjzdrqqmvp237500gxkrk0fe6d6crwpvlp96uvq9z2dfeetv5n23xpjlavgf0fgy4ch980mpv2rcsjasg2hqqpalykyc"
}

🔧 Development

Project Structure

lightning-mcp/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts        # Main server entry point
│   ├── lnbits-client.ts # Lightning Network client implementation
│   └── types.ts        # TypeScript type definitions
├── .env               # Environment configuration
└── tsconfig.json     # TypeScript configuration

Running Tests

npm test

🤝 Contributing

Fork the repository
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
Open a Pull Request

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🔗 Resources

📬 Contact

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This server cannot be installed

security - not tested

license - permissive license

quality - not tested

How are these scores calculated?

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Enables AI models to interact with the Lightning Network by providing an MCP-compliant API to pay invoices.

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