The rise of AI-powered agents opens the door to a fascinating intersection between automation and Bitcoin. Imagine autonomous systems that can directly interact with Lightning Network nodes or Bitcoin Core nodes sending and receiving payments, managing liquidity, or even executing trading and settlement strategies without human intervention.

These agents could monitor channel states, rebalance liquidity in real time, or act as autonomous service providers (e.g., pay-per-use APIs, streaming sats for data, or automated escrow). By combining the programmability of Bitcoin with the adaptability of AI, we might see entirely new classes of economic actors emerge.

What practical use cases, safeguards, or risks do you envision for such autonomous Bitcoin-native agents?