Bitcoin software company Breez said demand for its developer tools has surged since AI coding agents went mainstream, with partnership inquiries rising roughly 14-fold as developers — and increasingly the agents they deploy — look to add bitcoin payments to their applications.

In a company blog post, Breez tied the jump directly to Anthropic's Claude Code, a tool that writes and edits code on a developer's behalf, which launched as a research preview in February 2025 and became generally available three months later.

Before 2025, the company said, most prospective partners fell into three camps: committed bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech firms that treat bitcoin as an asset class. Since Claude Code arrived, Breez has heard from many developers with little or no bitcoin experience. Requests have come from fitness apps, messaging apps that want users to send each other money, an eSIM service for travelers, and the team behind a mushroom-identification app.

Many of these developers choose bitcoin for speed, according to Breez. Setting up traditional payment acceptance, including a bank account and cross-border transfers, can take weeks or months, while company says its software development kit (SDK) — a set of prebuilt tools for adding bitcoin payments to an app — can be running within minutes.

Breez said a growing share of inquiries now come from software rather than people, with the company regularly fielding requests from coding agents writing on behalf of the companies that deploy them.

The company argues that agents favor bitcoin because it is permissionless: an agent can build an app and set up payments for users worldwide without opening a bank account, passing onboarding checks, or signing forms.

“Bitcoin is agnostic about whether the code of its current owner and user is composed of DNA base pairs or weights in a neural net,” Breez wrote.

That same absence of gatekeeping has long drawn scrutiny from financial regulators, who require traditional payment providers to verify their customers under know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money-laundering rules. How those requirements apply when the party setting up payments is autonomous software rather than a verified person remains an open question.

Breez said its newest SDK implementation, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark — technology designed to increase transaction speed and capacity beyond bitcoin's base blockchain — handled the added volume without problems.

The company framed the shift as an update to Netscape co-founder and venture investor Marc Andreessen's 2011 essay arguing that software is eating the world, saying AI is now eating software. It compared bitcoin's role to background infrastructure such as electrical sockets and subsea cables.

This article first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.