🌐 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

Related MCP server: MCP2Lambda

👷‍♂️ 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:

Manual Installation

1. Clone the repository:

1. Install dependencies:

1. Create a .env file:

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

🚦 Usage

Starting the Server

Available Tools

pay_invoice

Pays an invoice on the Lightning Network.

Example input:

🔧 Development

Project Structure

Running Tests

🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository

2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')

4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)

5. Open a Pull Request

📜 License

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

🔗 Resources

• Lnbits repository

• Lnbits demo

• Model Context Protocol

• Visual testing tool for MCP servers

• Awesome MCP Servers

• Awesome MCP Clients

• MCP TypeScript SDK

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