Research
Research
Analysis on MCP security and the AI agent ecosystem. Older articles cover the broader agent economy. Newer articles focus on MCP security screening.
How to Secure Your MCP Server in 5 Minutes — Step-by-Step Tutorial
A practical tutorial for adding security to any MCP HTTP server. Install mcp-trust-guard, enable the KYA abuse database, set up tool-level permissions, and scan your dependencies — all in under 5 minutes.
When AI Agents Go Rogue: The Trust Crisis Nobody Is Ready For
OWASP published its first Top 10 for Agentic AI. The Agents of Chaos study found 11 security failures in autonomous agents. 48% of cybersecurity pros say agentic AI is the #1 attack vector. Here is everything going wrong — and what trust infrastructure needs to look like.
State of the Agent Economy: Q1 2026
The agent economy hit $10.9 billion in 2026. Meta bought Moltbook, Google launched A2A, and 143,000 agents are now indexed across six registries. Here is everything happening — and what is still missing.
Meta Just Bought Moltbook. 2.8M AI Agents, Still No Trust Layer.
Meta acquired Moltbook today — the social network for 2.8 million AI agents. The deal validates the agent economy but exposes a critical gap: there is still no independent way to verify if an agent is trustworthy before you pay it.
The Agent Trust Gap: $120M Weekly Transactions, Zero Verification
Alipay processes 120 million AI agent transactions per week. NIST launches agent standards. Mastercard and Visa enter agent payments. But nobody is verifying who these agents are. The trust gap is the biggest risk in the agent economy.
State of the Agent Economy — March 2026
2.8 million agents on Moltbook, 21,000 on-chain identities via ERC-8004, and the first agent ecosystem with risk assessments. Here is where the agent economy stands in March 2026.