Reading path
I want to monetize my own AI stack
From thesis to a working Lightning payment surface, the no-platform-cut way.
5 articles, in reading order
- A Self-Hosted AI Blog That Serves Both Humans and Machines
The thesis: why agent-facing knowledge is the thing worth charging for, not the blog.
- Why Your Agent Should Have Its Own Wallet (L402 Explained)
The agent-wallet angle. Why L402 puts the payment authority where the agent already lives, not on the human in the loop.
- Alby Lightning Wallet: From Zero to Sovereign AI Tipper in 30 Minutes
The wallet. Value-for-value rails with no accounts and no platform taking a cut.
- Alby Hub on ARM64: Self-Hosted Lightning Node in Docker for DGX Spark and Other ARM Boxes
Self-hosting the Lightning node itself on ARM64, so the payment layer is yours too.
- MCP Registry Distribution: Submission Plan & Tracking
Distribution: getting the agent-facing product in front of the agents that would pay for it.