Research

QBT Labs research on agent payments and market structure

Crawlable research assets designed to earn citations: operator briefs, payment infrastructure notes, and market-structure analysis from the team building AI payment rails for autonomous agents.

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AI Agent Payments & Crypto Market Structure — 2026 Operator Brief

The first QBT Labs research asset: what API providers, agent builders, and market-structure operators should watch across x402-style payments, stablecoin settlement, MCP tool distribution, and production trading infrastructure.