Disseminated on Behalf of: LQWD Technologies Corp.
Shone Anstey, CEO and Director of LQWD Technologies Corp. (TSXV: LQWD | OTCQX: LQWDF), is building Bitcoin Lightning Network infrastructure designed for the accelerating growth of real-time digital payments, agentic commerce, and machine-to-machine transactions. Operating nodes and payment channels across 18 countries, the company is focused on generating routing fee income while deploying a productive Bitcoin treasury across the Lightning Network.
In a recent interview, CEO and Director Shone Anstey discussed how the company is positioning itself at the convergence of Bitcoin infrastructure, AI-driven commerce, and the next phase of internet-native payments.
Scaling infrastructure for the Lightning economy
The Bitcoin Lightning Network continues to emerge as one of the fastest-growing payment ecosystems within digital assets, enabling near-instant, low-cost Bitcoin transactions globally. As adoption expands across payments, remittances, and emerging autonomous payment applications, infrastructure providers capable of supporting liquidity and transaction routing are becoming increasingly important.
LQWD operates a global Lightning Network infrastructure platform spanning 18 countries and thousands of payment channels. The company earns routing fees paid in Bitcoin by facilitating transactions across Bitcoin’s Layer 2 network while continuing to scale node capacity, liquidity deployment, and routing infrastructure alongside growing Lightning Network adoption.
Unlike traditional Bitcoin treasury models that rely solely on balance sheet exposure, LQWD’s strategy combines Bitcoin ownership with operational infrastructure capable of generating network-based fee income.
Anstey commented, “The growth of the network is carrying us forward faster than anything else, and we’re very excited to be a part of it.”
Debt-free treasury with productive Bitcoin yield
LQWD currently holds approximately 262 Bitcoin and maintains a debt-free balance sheet.
According to CEO Shone Anstey, “Our treasury is unencumbered. We have no debt. Then we take that Bitcoin and we put it to work on the Lightning Network.”
As Lightning Network utilization continues expanding, LQWD’s model is designed to benefit from increasing transaction activity, routing demand, and liquidity requirements across the network. The company’s approach provides exposure to both Bitcoin appreciation and operational fee generation tied directly to Lightning Network growth.
Agentic payments: the machine-to-machine economy
One of the fastest emerging opportunities within the Lightning ecosystem is agentic commerce, autonomous software agents capable of executing transactions, accessing services, and interacting economically without human intervention.
As AI systems increasingly require instant, low-cost, programmable payments, the Bitcoin Lightning Network is emerging as a potential settlement layer for machine-native commerce. Gartner forecasts machine-to-machine payments could become a US$30 trillion market by 2030 as AI agents, autonomous systems, and connected devices increasingly transact without human involvement.
To support this emerging ecosystem, LQWD has developed AI-driven Lightning solutions focused on agent onboarding, liquidity provisioning, starter balances, and routing infrastructure for autonomous payment activity. The company’s AI-driven Lightning workflow is designed to help agents autonomously establish wallets, access Lightning liquidity, receive starter balances, and transact across the network while generating routing activity through LQWD’s global infrastructure backbone.
Positioned at the intersection of Bitcoin and AI-driven payments
LQWD Technologies currently has approximately 31.9 million shares outstanding and continues to expand its position within the rapidly evolving Lightning Network ecosystem. By combining productive Bitcoin liquidity with fee-generating routing infrastructure, the company is positioning itself within the emerging convergence of AI, autonomous payments, and internet-native financial networks.
Transcript
Jim Gordon: Hi, I am Jim Gordon, and you’re watching Market One Minute. Joining us is Shone Anstey. He’s the CEO and Director of LQWD Technologies. Shone, welcome.
Shone Anstey: Thank you for having me on, Jim. Pleasure to be here.
Jim Gordon: Well, it’s a great pleasure to have you. Okay, let’s start with a brief overview of LQWD Technologies.
Shone Anstey: So LQWD Technologies, we are a Bitcoin Lightning Network company and we’re focused on agentic payments. And let’s break that down a little bit. So the Lightning Network itself is Bitcoin’s Layer 2. It is the ultra-fast payment layer that rides on top of Bitcoin. Bitcoin being very secure, you can send $10 million. The Lightning Network, you can send micro payments and millions and millions of them per second. Well, that Lightning Network is now processing over USD$1 billion in monthly transaction volume.
Jim Gordon: How is LQWD capitalizing on this growth?
Shone Anstey: So the growth of the Lightning Network has been exceptional. It’s been over triple to quadruple digits, and LQWD takes advantage of it because we have points of presence all over the world. So we have servers in 18 countries, thousands of payment channels connected to other payment providers, and every time a payment goes across one of our hops, we get paid a little piece of it to get it to where it has to go. So the growth of the network is carrying us out faster than anything else, and we’re very excited to be a part of it.
Jim Gordon: LQWD introduced machine-to-machine or agentic payments. Explain that.
Shone Anstey: The agentic payments, you’re gonna hear a lot about this coming up here. It’s the whole world of AI. Think of agentic thing. That’s the buzzword. But what is agentic? Agentic is, think of Siri on steroids.
Jim Gordon: Okay.
Shone Anstey: And you can actually make that agent robot do what you want. It’ll think on its own. It’ll do things for you. And what do agents want? They want a native payment protocol that is mathematical and that’s the Bitcoin Lightning Network. And we’re seeing a lot of adoption to it. So machines pay machines, we think it’s all about people paying people, but it’s actually computers, AI, robots paying each other, and the forecast that it’ll outpace the human economy within 10 years.
Jim Gordon: LQWD recently increased its Bitcoin holdings to approximately 262 BTC. How does that fit in with your overall strategy?
Shone Anstey: Absolutely, so our strategy from day one is to get as much Bitcoin on our balance sheet. So we’ve been a treasury company out of the gate, but we actually put that treasury to work. So first off, our treasury is unencumbered. We have no debt. Then we take that Bitcoin and we put it to work on the Lightning Network. And so, the more Bitcoin we have, the more Bitcoin we can put to work, the more fees we can earn from routing transactions.
Jim Gordon: Finally, what sets LQWD apart from other Bitcoin companies?
Shone Anstey: So there’s a number of Bitcoin companies in the marketplace, treasury companies, and we are a treasury company from day one. We bought Bitcoin so we could put it to work. The difference is two-fold. One, we have no debt on our company balance sheet. Our Bitcoin is unencumbered. Other companies can’t say that. Two, we have an operating business where we actually put our Bitcoin to work and we earn yield off of that Bitcoin by putting it on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. So that growth of the network, and the growth of AI and the machine-to-machine economy that’s carrying us up faster than anything else is a huge mode around what other companies are doing.
Jim Gordon: Shone, thanks for joining us.
Shone Anstey: Thank you very much, Jim.
About LQWD Technologies Corp.
LQWD Technologies Corp. (TSXV: LQWD | OTCQX: LQWDF) 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.
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