Breez said demand for its developer tools has surged as AI coding agents have gone mainstream, with partnership inquiries rising by about 14x as developers — and, increasingly, the agents they deploy — look to add bitcoin payments to their apps.
In a company blog post, Breez tied the jump directly to Anthropic’s Claude Code. The company said Claude Code launched as a research preview in February 2025 and became generally available three months later.
Who is asking has changed
Before 2025, Breez said, most prospective partners fit into three groups: committed bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech firms that treated bitcoin as an asset class.
Since Claude Code arrived, the company said it has heard from many developers with little or no bitcoin experience. Those requests have come from fitness apps, messaging apps that want users to send money to each other, an eSIM service for travelers, and the team behind a mushroom-identification app.
Why developers are choosing bitcoin
Breez said many of those developers choose bitcoin because of speed. Setting up traditional payment acceptance — including opening a bank account and arranging cross-border transfers — can take weeks or months, while its SDK can be up and running within minutes, according to the company.
More requests are coming from software agents
Breez said a growing share of inquiries now comes from software rather than people. The company said it regularly receives requests from coding agents writing on behalf of the companies that use them.
The firm argued that agents favor bitcoin because it is permissionless. An agent can build an app and set up payments for users around the world without opening a bank account, passing onboarding checks, or signing forms.
In Breez’s words, bitcoin is agnostic about whether the code of its current owner and user is made of DNA base pairs or weights in a neural net.
Regulatory scrutiny and infrastructure
Breez also noted that the same lack of gatekeeping has long attracted scrutiny from financial regulators, which require traditional payment providers to verify customers.
The company said its newest SDK implementation, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, handled the added volume without problems.
How Breez framed the shift
Breez described the change as an update to 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.
The story first appeared in Bitcoin Magazine and was written by Mathew Di Salvo.