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Writing from the TODAQ team on agentic commerce, verification, settlement and digital ownership.

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August 2026

· 27 min read

The Agentic Economy's Missing Middle

Closing the trust, verification, and infrastructure gap emerging beneath the agentic economy, and how self-verifying digital assets solve the next layer of the stack.

By Susana Khan

May 2026

· 19 min read

The Invisible Shelf: How Headless Catalogs Are Rewiring AI Infrastructure

The machines are already transacting. The infrastructure being built today will determine what happens when something goes wrong at scale.

By Susana Khan

· 18 min read

When The Transaction Becomes The Record

Why autonomous systems are forcing execution, verification, and institutional trust into the same infrastructure layer

By Susana Khan

· 15 min read

Settlement Without Proof

On provenance, accountability, and the infrastructure gap beneath autonomous execution

By Susana Khan

· 6 min read

You Cannot Audit a Probability: The Agentic AI Trust Wall

The agentic AI market is sorting itself out. What the mature version requires is different from what the demo version assumed.

By Susana Khan

April 2026

· 11 min read

The Agent Economy Just Got Its First Native Currency Rail. It’s Called Qatom.

MCP solved how agents talk to tools. Qatom solves how they pay for them.

By Susana Khan and TODAQ Press

March 2026

· 30 min read

Built Before It Was Named

MIT named it. IBM specified it. The proof was already done — and the infrastructure built on it is live.

By Susana Khan

· 4 min read

An MIT Economist Just Named the Gap We've Been Building Toward

A 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.

By Susana Khan

February 2026

· 6 min read

Everyone's Building AI Agents. Nobody's Figured Out How They Get Paid.

The infrastructure gap at the centre of this week's biggest AI news — and where it's being solved.

By Susana Khan and TODAQ Press

· 9 min read

The Payment Layer for the AI Economy

How internet-native payments enable machines to transact

By TODAQ Press and Susana Khan

October 2024

· 11 min read

Almost as Good as Paper

How we cracked the Web's micropayment problem and a few other things as well.

By Starwater Heaven and Dann