[satgate]

Timely coincidence — Lightning Labs just open-sourced agent payment tools today (lnget, an L402-aware curl for agents). They're solving the client side: teaching agents to pay Lightning invoices automatically. SatGate is the server side: the policy enforcement and budget layer that sits in front of your APIs. If you're running an API that agents consume, SatGate lets you go from "observe what's hitting you" to "enforce per-agent budgets" to "charge per-request via L402" — without changing your backend. An agent running lnget hits your SatGate endpoint, gets a 402, pays the invoice, and proceeds. No signup, no API keys. The two projects are complementary. They're building the roads. We're building the toll infrastructure.