Bitcoin software company Breez said demand for its developer tools has surged since AI coding agents entered the mainstream, with partnership inquiries increasing by about 14x. Developers, along with the AI agents they deploy, are looking to add Bitcoin payments to their applications.
Breez links the increase to Claude Code
In a company blog post, Breez said it directly attributes the rise in demand to Anthropic’s Claude Code. The tool launched as a research preview in February 2025 and became generally available three months later.
Before 2025, Breez said its prospective partners mostly fell into three categories: committed Bitcoin enthusiasts, crypto developers, and fintech companies that treated Bitcoin as an asset class.
The mix of inbound developers has shifted
After Claude Code arrived, Breez said it started receiving inquiries from many developers with little or no Bitcoin experience. Those requests came from teams behind a range of products, including fitness apps, messaging apps that want to let users send money to each other, eSIM services aimed at travelers, and a mushroom identification app.
Breez said speed is a major reason these developers are choosing Bitcoin. Traditional payment acceptance often involves bank accounts and cross-border transfers and can take weeks or even months, while its SDK can be up and running in minutes.
More requests are coming from software agents
The company also said a growing number of inquiries are coming from software rather than humans. According to Breez, coding agents often submit requests on behalf of the companies that deploy them.
Breez said it believes agents prefer Bitcoin because it is permissionless. Agents do not need to open bank accounts, pass reviews, or sign paperwork before building applications and setting up payments for users around the world.
The company added that its latest SDK, built on the Bitcoin scaling protocol Spark, has handled the additional traffic smoothly.