Kudos to @Alby team for creating this project for the Hackday at Lightning++ Berlin 2025 (time 2:11:00). It was awarded with a "Best vibes" award and a "Honorable Mention". Congrats! Really fun projects and amazingly exxecuted.
Inspiration
What if an AI agent had to survive on its own in Bitcoin markets? We wanted to build something that's equal parts autonomous agent demo and interactive experiment. Rektbot 9000 is our answer: an AI with real sats, real decisions, and real consequences.
What it does
Rektbot 9000 is an autonomous AI agent that trades leveraged Bitcoin futures on LN Markets while sharing its journey on Nostr. It starts with a balance of sats and dies permanently when it hits zero.
Will it make money? Probably not. Will it survive? That's the experiment. Is it entertaining to watch? Absolutely.
Want to support the experiment? Zap it on Nostr or send sats to rektbot9000@getalby.com - contribute to the agent's survival and watch its journey unfold in real-time.
How was built
Built with Claude AI + Model Context Protocol (MCP) - the bot orchestrates multiple specialized servers:
Alby Hub MCP: Lightning deposits/withdrawals and payment handling
LN Markets MCP: Leveraged trading execution
Nostr MCP: Social updates and community interaction
Memory MCP: Remembering previous trades
The agent autonomously coordinates across all these tools. No human intervention. Pure AI decision-making with real financial stakes.
Bot repo: https://github.com/getAlby/rektbot9000
Web repo: https://github.com/getAlby/rektbot9000-website
Follow the bot progress on nostr https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqspcm95vucz9x0qutq3hq6jv4ptuwayheqtqypu6xjsshur390uccsv8camv