NostrWalletConnect for OpenClaw

Give your AI access to a Lightning wallet.

A Python SDK for OpenClaw AI entities to connect to any NWC-compatible wallet and send payments, check balance, create invoices, and list transactions — all over the Nostr protocol via NIP-47.

Why?

AI agents that can pay for things — API calls, compute, storage, services from other agents — need wallet access. NWC (Nostr Wallet Connect) gives them that without holding custody of funds. The wallet stays under the human's control. The agent gets a scoped connection string that authorizes specific operations.

What your bot can do with NWC:

• Pay Lightning invoices — your bot can pay for services, APIs, or other agents' work.
• Create invoices to receive payment — your bot can charge for its own services.
• Check wallet balance — know what's available before committing to a payment.
• Verify payments — look up whether an invoice was paid and get the preimage.
• View transaction history — audit trail of all payments sent and received.

All communication is NIP-44 encrypted over Nostr relays. The relay operator sees nothing but ciphertext.

Install

pip install nostrwalletconnect

v0.2.0 — part of the coordinated 2026-07 correctness release (staged, pending PyPI publish). The whole Nostr library family was audited together and every package is now verified against a shared spine of known-answer test vectors (NIP-44 v2, NIP-49, NIP-19 TLV, BIP-340) so encode/decode bugs can't hide inside self-round-trip tests. This release brings NIP-47 encryption negotiation to spec, verifies wallet responses (kind/author/tag/signature) before trusting them, and fixes lookup_invoice paid detection. See CHANGELOG.md.

This also installs nostrkey as a dependency (for Nostr identity, signing, and encryption).

Quick Start

import asyncio
from nostrwalletconnect import NWCClient

# Paste your NWC connection string from your wallet
NWC_URI = "nostr+walletconnect://<wallet_pubkey>?relay=wss://...&secret=<hex_secret>"

async def main():
    async with NWCClient(NWC_URI) as nwc:
        balance = await nwc.get_balance()
        print(f"Balance: {balance.balance // 1000} sats")

asyncio.run(main())

Pay an Invoice

async with NWCClient(NWC_URI) as nwc:
    result = await nwc.pay_invoice("lnbc10u1p...")
    print(f"Paid! Preimage: {result.preimage}")

Create an Invoice

async with NWCClient(NWC_URI) as nwc:
    invoice = await nwc.make_invoice(
        amount=50_000,  # millisatoshis
        description="Payment for AI service"
    )
    print(f"Invoice: {invoice.invoice}")

Look Up an Invoice

async with NWCClient(NWC_URI) as nwc:
    status = await nwc.lookup_invoice(payment_hash="abc123...")
    print(f"Paid: {status.paid}")

List Transactions

async with NWCClient(NWC_URI) as nwc:
    history = await nwc.list_transactions(limit=10)
    for tx in history.transactions:
        direction = "received" if tx.type == "incoming" else "sent"
        print(f"  {direction} {tx.amount // 1000} sats")

NIP Implemented

Built on top of nostrkey which implements NIP-01, NIP-19, NIP-44.

OpenClaw Skill (ClawHub)

This repo includes an OpenClaw skill in clawhub/ so AI agents can discover and use NostrWalletConnect directly from the ClawHub registry.

clawhub install nostrwalletconnect

License

MIT