LQWD Powers AI-Powered Economy with Bitcoin Payment Rails

LQWD Technologies Corp. is building the infrastructure for an economy where AI pays AI by powering Bitcoin payments across the Lightning Network, its high-speed settlement layer.

The company's CEO and Founder Shone Anstey described LQWD as a 'modern-day routing company, a payments company' that takes Bitcoin and puts it to work. It has nodes in 18 countries and a debt-free Bitcoin treasury deployed across the network.

LQWD is one of the key infrastructure providers behind the scenes, with systems in 18 countries. It charges a small fee on every hop it forwards, paid in satoshis, which makes it an open marketplace where operators compete on price and speed.

The company recently launched AI Launchpad, a service that lets an AI agent get onto the Lightning Network in minutes at no cost to its operator. This is part of LQWD's long-term ambition to have its own network run autonomously, with AI opening and closing channels and minimal human oversight.