Ms. Ashley Garnot reports

LQWD APPOINTS VENTUM FINANCIAL FOR SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAM

Lqwd Technologies Corp., further to the March 9, 2026, news release, has appointed Ventum Financial Corp. to conduct the normal course issuer bid (NCIB) on the company's behalf.

The NCIB commenced on March 13, 2026, and will terminate on March 12, 2027, or such earlier date on which the maximum number of approximately 2.6 million common shares permitted under the NCIB has been purchased. To date, Lqwd has not purchased any shares under the NCIB.

Purchases under the NCIB will be made through the facilities of the TSX Venture Exchange in accordance with applicable TSX-V rules and policies. The company will pay the prevailing market price for any common shares purchased, and the actual number of shares purchased and the timing of such purchases will be determined by the company.

The NCIB is at the company's discretion and the company reserves the right to terminate the NCIB at any time.

About Lqwd Technologies Corp.

As a publicly traded company, Lqwd offers investor exposure to bitcoin's long-term appreciation and the rise of a machine-driven economy powered by Lightning Network. The company is redefining bitcoin as a global, monetizable network and accelerating its evolution into a real-time payment layer for the Internet.

Backed by a bitcoin treasury deployed as productive network capital and enterprise-grade AI-driven Lightning infrastructure, Lqwd is at the forefront of autonomous, real-time machine-to-machine commerce at mass scale.

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 262 unencumbered bitcoin with no outstanding debt, convertible bonds or debentures.

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

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