Copyright © 2026 Authors retain the copyright of this article. This article is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

@article{196683,
        author = {Ankit Kumar and Avnish Kumar and Vikas and MD Leyan},
        title = {THE MACHINE-TO-MACHINE ECONOMY: BITCOIN’S LIGHTNING NETWORK AS THE NATIVE SETTLEMENT LAYER FOR AUTONOMOUS AI AGENTS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {4022-4026},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=196683},
        abstract = {},
        keywords = {},
        month = {April},
        }