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Voltage

Voltage is Bitcoin and Lightning Network money infrastructure that lets financial platforms send and receive instant, permissionless payments at scale. Its Payments API (voltageapi.com/v1) exposes wallets, payments, quotes, and lines of credit for BTC and USD settlement, backed either by a Voltage-managed line of credit or your own Lightning node. Voltage also runs managed Lightning node infrastructure (LND, Core Lightning, BTCPay Server) with macaroon-based access, webhooks for real-time payment events, a Mutinynet staging sandbox, and built-in OFAC/compliance risk screening via Amboss Reflex. The platform is SOC 2 Type II and NMLS compliant.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Voltage the way a machine reads it — 7 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Voltage scores 54.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 54.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 5.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 11.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

How we profile Voltage

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Voltage. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 1

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Voltage Payments API

REST API for sending and receiving Bitcoin/Lightning payments. Manage wallets, create send/receive payments (BOLT11, on-chain, BIP21), lock BTC/USD exchange rates with quotes, v...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

voltage-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 2

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Voltage Payments Webhooks

AsyncAPI description of the Voltage Payments webhook event surface, generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline from the public webhooks documentation (https://docs.volt...

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Voltage Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Voltage Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Voltage Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Voltage — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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