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L402 (Lightning HTTP 402) Projects

HTTP 402 settled in Bitcoin over the Lightning Network.

20
L402 projects
31
most-starred
9
updated in 30 days

L402 (formerly LSAT, from Lightning Labs) also revives HTTP 402, but settles Bitcoin over the Lightning Network using macaroon-based authentication tokens — the Lightning-native counterpart to x402’s stablecoin approach. Where x402 bets on USDC and smart-contract chains, L402 bets on Bitcoin and instant Lightning settlement.

The projects below implement L402/LSAT servers, macaroon tooling, and Lightning paywalls for APIs.

Deciding between the two 402 flavors? Read x402 vs L402.

The L402 category right now

The directory currently tracks 20 L402 projects. routeweiler-python-sdk leads the group with 31 stars, and 0 of them have cleared 100 stars. Half the group sits at 1 stars or below, which is the honest shape of this space today: a short head of real adoption and a long tail of experiments.

TypeScript (45%) and Python (20%) dominate the implementation languages here, and forgesworn is the most prolific publisher with 3 L402 repositories. The recurring GitHub topics are l402, bitcoin, ai-agents.

9 of the 20 projects were updated in the last 30 days and 12 in the last 90 (60%), so this is an actively moving category. 1 have had no commit for over a year. The newest entrant is routeweiler-python-sdk, first published 2026-04.

Figures recomputed from the tracked repositories on every build.

Compare: x402 vs L402 · All agent payment protocols

Core L402 projects

Projects whose main focus is L402 — ranked by stars within the category, not by global popularity.

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Frequently asked questions

Which L402 projects are worth using in 2026?

Start with routeweiler-python-sdk (31★), the most-adopted project in this category. Of the 20 L402 projects tracked here, 0 have 100+ stars and 12 shipped a commit in the last 90 days — that intersection is the shortlist worth evaluating. The grid above puts the L402-focused projects first rather than whatever is globally popular.

How active is the L402 ecosystem right now?

9 of 20 projects were updated in the last 30 days (45%), 12 in the last 90, and 1 have not seen a commit in over a year. The newest project in the category, routeweiler-python-sdk, appeared in 2026-04. Star counts and commit dates on this page are refreshed from GitHub continuously.

What language should I use to build L402 payments?

TypeScript (9), Python (4), Go (2), JavaScript (2) are the languages actually represented in this category, so TypeScript has the deepest set of working references. Pick the language your agent runtime already uses — the x402 flow itself is plain HTTP, so no language locks you out.

How does this L402 list stay current?

Repositories are discovered from GitHub, classified into L402 automatically, and re-crawled for stars, language and last-commit data. Thin or duplicated repositories are kept out of search results by a quality gate, so this page lists the 20 projects that actually matched L402.