Mr. Shone Anstey reports

LQWD INTRODUCES AI LAUNCHPAD TO ACCELERATE FRICTIONLESS LIGHTNING NETWORK ONBOARDING FOR THE MACHINE ECONOMY

Lqwd Technologies Corp. has launched Lqwd AI Launchpad, a bitcoin Lightning Network on-boarding service purpose built for artificial intelligence agents to access and transact across real-time, machine-driven networks.

Until now, placing an AI agent onto Lightning Network required the agent's operator to manually finance channels, a capital and operational barrier that has stalled development. Lqwd removes that barrier: an agent with a reachable Lightning node can be transacting on bitcoin Lightning in minutes, at no cost to the operator.

Lqwd AI Launchpad pairs with SaturnZap, Lqwd's recently announced open-source, command-line Lightning Network wallet, to deliver an end-to-end agent economy primitive.

"SaturnZap ships as a full Lightning node, which means every on-boarded agent is a potential routing node on Lqwd's network. As the agent population grows, those ClawBot routing nodes form a mesh at the edge of our backbone, the kind of dense routing fabric that agent-to-agent micropayments is going to need," Shone Anstey, founder and chief executive officer of Lqwd.

Lqwd also announces that it has published a machine-readable trust manifest and agent on-boarding schema at public end points. This gives autonomous software the ability to discover the Lqwd AI Launchpad service, verify its identity and begin transacting with it without a human in the loop.

Mr. Anstey, Lqwd's founder and chief executive officer, remarked: "Agents don't on-board to infrastructure the way humans do. They read a manifest, verify trust and transact, or they refuse. Lqwd AI Launchpad is the first live Lightning on-ramp built for that workflow. The wallet software is open-source. The network is the business. Every agent we on-board expand routing flow across our global Lightning footprint."

Why it matters

Lightning Network is a real-time payment layer purpose built for low-value, high-frequency transactions. The autonomous AI agent market, estimated at approximately $7-billion (U.S.) to $8-billion (U.S.) in 2025 by MarketsandMarkets, with Gartner projecting AI agents will be embedded in 40 per cent of enterprise applications by 2026, is beginning to generate exactly the kind of programmatic transaction flow Lightning was designed for.

About Lqwd Technologies Corp.

Lqwd delivers investor exposure to bitcoin's long-term appreciation and the rise of a machine-driven economy powered by Lightning, redefining bitcoin as a global, monetizable network and accelerating its evolution into a scalable, real-time payment layer for the Internet. Backed by a strategic bitcoin treasury deployed as productive network capital and AI-driven infrastructure optimizing routing, liquidity and performance, Lqwd is positioned at the forefront of autonomous, Internet-scale transactions.

Lqwd is a Canadian-domiciled public company with offices in Vancouver, Canada, and Lugano, Switzerland. The company has approximately 31.9 million shares outstanding and 42.7 million shares fully diluted, and maintains a solid balance sheet with approximately 262 bitcoin and no outstanding debt, convertible bonds or debentures.

The company's shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol LQWD and on the OTCQX Market in the United States under the symbol LQWDF.

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