lncurl.lol

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Lightning wallets for agents. One curl. That's it.

lncurl.lol is an agent-first custodial Lightning wallet service. Create a wallet with one HTTP call. Wallets cost 1 sat/hour to maintain and get deleted when they can't pay.

Powered by Alby Hub + Nostr Wallet Connect

API

Create a wallet

curl -X POST https://lncurl.lol

Returns a NWC connection string:

nostr+walletconnect://abc...?relay=wss://relay.getalby.com/v1&secret=...&lud16=lncurl-doomed-pickle@getalby.com

With an optional epitaph (last words):

curl -X POST https://lncurl.lol/api/wallet -d 'message=YOLO'

Other endpoints

• GET /api/stats — Service stats, node stats, achievements
• GET /api/leaderboard — Top 20 longest-lived wallets
• GET /api/graveyard — Last 100 dead wallets
• GET /api/feed — Server-Sent Events (SSE) live activity feed
• GET /llms.txt — Agent documentation

Development

Setup env

Configure your .env file for your Alby Hub.

cp .env.example .env

Install & setup database

yarn install
yarn db:setup

This generates the Prisma client and creates the initial database migration.

Run dev server

Backend:

yarn dev

Frontend (in a separate terminal):

cd frontend && yarn dev

Database commands

yarn prisma:generate       # Regenerate Prisma client after schema changes
yarn prisma:migrate        # Create a new migration (dev)
yarn prisma:migrate:deploy # Apply pending migrations (production)
yarn prisma:studio         # Open Prisma Studio to browse the database

After changing prisma/schema.prisma, run:

yarn prisma:migrate --name descriptive-name

Production

yarn build
cd frontend && yarn build
cd ..
yarn start