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Some wallets now work with human readable lightning addresses. (get one on coinos.com for example) Not ideal from a non-custodial point of view, but helpful for merchants and you can settle to a node you control. Keysend is another thing that's far from ideal, but doesn't require invoices. Then there are tipping environments that also don't use invoices. Might be more which I'm not aware of. LN protocol updates can be seen on github. https://github.com/lightning/bolts
It's even better. You can create an address that looks like an email: https://github.com/andrerfneves/lightning-address
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