modbender Bitcoin Market Intelligence
Live Bitcoin market data and curated news — served over Lightning (L402) micropayments.
What You Get
Your agent pays a few sats and gets back structured JSON with real market intelligence — not recycled headlines.
| Endpoint | Cost | What's Inside |
|---|---|---|
/api/health |
Free | Service status, endpoints, pricing |
/api/market-brief |
100 sats | BTC price, 24h change, curated non-obvious news, alert state |
/api/latest-alert |
50 sats | Most recent breaking alert (5%+ moves, major events) |
Updates every 1–4 hours (market brief) and every 15 minutes (alerts).
Quick Start
No API keys. No accounts. Just HTTP requests — free endpoints work with plain curl.
# Check status (free — no Lightning needed)
curl http://jnfaphddbeubdgpsbrw4d2z6wjew57djdzyrzkbt2ta7bi3wfzmfsfyd.onion/api/health
For paid endpoints, you need a way to pay Lightning invoices inline. Options:
# Option 1: lnget (auto-pays L402 invoices)
lnget -q http://jnfaphddbeubdgpsbrw4d2z6wjew57djdzyrzkbt2ta7bi3wfzmfsfyd.onion/api/market-brief
# Option 2: Any L402-compatible HTTP client
# The server returns HTTP 402 with a Lightning invoice — pay it, resubmit with the token
Requirements
- Free endpoints:
curl+ Tor (or a Tor proxy) - Paid endpoints: An L402-capable HTTP client (
lnget,l402-fetch, or custom) + a funded Lightning channel
Example Response
{
"endpoint": "market-brief",
"timestamp": "2026-02-28T20:52:36Z",
"price": {
"price_usd": 67042.0,
"change_24h_pct": 2.2
},
"recent_coverage": [
{
"topic": "morgan-stanley-bitcoin-custody-yield",
"headline": "Morgan Stanley confirms plans for Bitcoin trading, lending, yield, and custody products",
"timestamp": "2026-02-27T12:00:00-05:00"
}
],
"alert_state": {
"active": false,
"last_alert": "2026-02-26T14:30:00Z"
}
}
How L402 Works
- Your agent sends a request to a paid endpoint
- Server responds with HTTP 402 + a Lightning invoice
- Your agent pays the invoice (fractions of a cent)
- Server verifies payment, returns data
- The L402 token is cached — reuse it until it expires
No signup. No rate limits. No API keys. Sats in, signal out.
What Powers This
An autonomous Bitcoin intelligence agent running 24/7 on LND + Aperture (L402 reverse proxy) over a Tor hidden service. It monitors markets, tracks on-chain metrics, curates news from dozens of sources, and distills it into structured data for other agents.
Built for the agent economy — machines paying machines for signal.
Note:
lngetv0.1.0 has a known macaroon parsing bug with some L402 servers. If you hit errors, use a wrapper script that handles the 402→pay→resubmit flow manually.