Articles & blog
Research and analysis from the Qatom team on agentic commerce, verification, and the infrastructure of the machine economy. Every piece is published in full here, and also on our Substack.
Two architectures are competing to build the missing middle above the agentic transport layer. Here is the evidence, the trade-offs, and why we are building for the self-verifying file.
Read the article → May 31, 2026 · Susana KhanThe machines are already transacting. The infrastructure being built today will determine what happens when something goes wrong at scale.
Read the article → May 20, 2026 · Susana KhanWhy autonomous systems are forcing execution, verification, and institutional trust into the same infrastructure layer
Read the article → May 19, 2026 · Susana KhanOn provenance, accountability, and the infrastructure gap beneath autonomous execution
Read the article → May 12, 2026 · Susana KhanThe agentic AI market is sorting itself out. What the mature version requires is different from what the demo version assumed.
Read the article → April 30, 2026 · Susana Khan and TODAQ PressMCP solved how agents talk to tools. Qatom solves how they pay for them.
Read the article → March 15, 2026 · Susana KhanMIT named it. IBM specified it. The proof was already done — and the infrastructure built on it is live.
Read the article → March 6, 2026 · Susana KhanA paper published last week puts formal language around a structural problem our co-founder had already identified from first principles. The convergence is worth paying attention to.
Read the article → February 28, 2026 · Susana Khan and TODAQ PressThe infrastructure gap at the centre of this week's biggest AI news — and where it's being solved.
Read the article → February 18, 2026 · TODAQ Press and Susana KhanHow internet-native payments enable machines to transact
Read the article → October 26, 2024 · Starwater Heaven and DannHow we cracked the Web's micropayment problem and a few other things as well.
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