Qatom Press Release — Accountable Agent Payments
Oct 7, 2026 ·
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Agents proved they will pay. Qatom makes sure the payment can be trusted.
Qatom launches its accountable payments layer for the agent economy: payment, delivery and a verifiable receipt in one call, with no public ledger, no gas and 0% transaction fees.
Toronto, October 2026 — Qatom, the commerce layer that turns APIs and data into storefronts AI agents can buy from, today set out its answer to the growing trust problem in agent payments.
In 2026 AWS, Stripe, Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard all launched ways to give AI agents a wallet. Open protocols such as x402 showed that software can pay software over a plain web request. The next question is harder: can a business trust the payment when an agent is on the other end?
Independent research says the market is not there yet:
