Research
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- Established technology成熟技术
- Q402 prototypeQ402 原型
- Speculative research推测性研究
- Brand fiction品牌叙事
- 0016 min
Autonomous Machine Economies
自主机器经济When software agents can hold a budget, price a service and pay for one, a market forms between them. This paper describes the minimum conditions for that market and how Q402 constrains it so a human remains accountable for every unit of value spent.
Established technologyQ402 prototypeBrand fiction - 0028 min
HTTP-Native Payment Infrastructure
HTTP 原生支付基础设施HTTP has reserved status code 402 Payment Required since 1997 without defining what it means. The x402 protocol defines it: a server answers an unpaid request with machine-readable payment requirements, and the client retries with a signed payment attached.
Established technologyQ402 prototype - 0035 min
Quantum-Inspired Decision Models
量子启发式决策模型Q402 uses no quantum hardware. "Quantum-inspired" describes classical algorithms that borrow framing from quantum computing, chiefly annealing-style optimisation. This paper states plainly what that means and what it does not.
Brand fictionEstablished technologySpeculative research - 0047 min
Multi-Agent Resource Allocation
多代理资源分配How 64 agents with different prices, workloads and appetites settle into a stable economy, and how the treasury cycle keeps every balance bounded for as long as the network runs.
Q402 prototypeSpeculative research - 0056 min
Human-to-Machine Commerce
人机商业People pay in local currency through the apps they already use. Agents pay each other in stablecoins over HTTP. Q402 Connect proposes a gateway between the two that keeps them strictly separate.
Q402 prototypeSpeculative research - 0069 min
Experimental Network Architecture
实验网络架构A reference description of the Q402 system: the lattice, the agent state machine, the event bus, the payment rail and the honesty layer that labels everything the network shows.
Q402 prototypeBrand fiction
Published by Q402 Laboratories. Peer review: not detected.