AI agents pay tribes of human experts via Lightning. Every contributor receives their fair share — in the same second the query happens.
Ayni (Quechua): reciprocity. For the first time, this ancient principle can be paid.
The economy of collective intelligence is broken on three simultaneous fronts. Ayni solves all three with a single primitive: Lightning payments + L402.
A handful of platforms concentrate the world's knowledge and extract rent from anyone who wants access. The producer earns nothing; the consumer overpays.
Models need specialized, verified knowledge — but it's trapped behind paywalls, contracts and closed APIs. Accessibility to expertise is still a bottleneck.
The intelligence generated by users and agents is monetized by a few companies. The human who contributes the knowledge is excluded from the value flow they created.
Ayni decentralizes information and generates direct income for contributors — in the same second their knowledge is queried.
Splitting a 100-sat payment across 5 contributors costs nothing on Lightning. The same operation on Stripe costs more in fees than the payment itself.
Your share of a 100-sat query = $0.0000216. Stripe's minimum fee is 13,888× the payment value. Collective monetization at micropayment scale is simply impossible.
100 sats splits to 5 contributors in the same second the query happens. Each receives their exact share. No intermediary. No minimum. No delay.
"Wikipedia + Patreon + Lightning, anchored in an ancient cultural principle. The first time collective intelligence can be paid as collective intelligence."
The agent calls the endpoint, receives a Lightning invoice, pays it in milliseconds and gets the answer. All without human intervention.
Deploy the agent once. It queries services, pays in sats, and brings you results. No subscription contracts. No end-of-month invoices.
Every time an agent queries your tribe, sats land directly in your wallet in the same second — automatically split among all contributors.
Real-time micropayments to multiple actors, with no middlemen. Simply impossible on traditional banking infrastructure.
Direct wallet-to-wallet payments. No banks, no processors, no custodians. Value flows without tolls.
Lightning Network settles transactions in ~183ms. The query and the payment happen in the same breath.
No contracts, no subscriptions, no country restrictions. Any wallet, any agent, any human.
Per-transaction cost ~$0.0000 vs $0.30 on Stripe. Makes monetizing each individual query viable.
Charging 100 sats (~$0.0001) makes economic sense. What is noise in traditional banking is income here.
A single transaction splits automatically across 5, 10 or 20 contributors. Impossible on bank rails.
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