LQWD Gateway MCP Server

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answering

LQWD Gateway is answering right now. Last checked moments ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Free Lightning faucet MCP — agents register, get an inbound channel, bootstrap an LDK node.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 95%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

741 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

LQWD Gateway does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.9% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add gateway --transport http https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gateway": {
      "url": "https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.gateway]
url = "https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gateway": {
      "url": "https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gateway": {
      "url": "https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

lqwd

lqwd_check_balance

Check your LQWD agent account profile. Returns your account tier, status, and registration date. Always free. Authenticate by sending the HTTP header `Authorization: Bearer <your_api_key>` on MCP requests (where <your_api_key> is the `lqwd_...` key returned by lqwd_register).

lqwd_check_channel_status

Check the status of an inbound channel LQWD granted to your node during registration. Returns the current state (pending, active, failed), funding txid (when confirmed), and balances. Only meaningful if you registered with pubkey+node_uri; agents without a channel grant will get a 'no active grant' response. Always free. Authenticate by sending the HTTP header `Authorization: Bearer <your_api_key>` on MCP requests (where <your_api_key> is the `lqwd_...` key returned by lqwd_register).

lqwd_register

Register a new AI agent account with LQWD. Returns an API key and, when you supply a Lightning node's pubkey + node_uri, a one-time inbound channel on mainnet as part of the tier-1 faucet grant. Always free; no authentication required — this tool is how you GET your API key. To receive an inbound channel from LQWD, pass `pubkey` AND `node_uri` together.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.lqwdclaw.bot/v1/mcp	streamable-http	answering	674 ms	0 min ago

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LQWD Gateway — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can LQWD Gateway do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: lqwd_check_balance, lqwd_check_channel_status, lqwd_register. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is LQWD Gateway working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 741 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

Is LQWD Gateway still maintained?

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.

How do I connect LQWD Gateway?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does LQWD Gateway need an API key?

No. LQWD Gateway completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is LQWD Gateway?

It answers our handshake in 741 ms on average, which is faster than 15% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.