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The episode discusses the implications of AI agents being able to transact independently and the necessary payment infrastructure for this new economy.
What changes when AI agents can transact on their own? Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Viggo Stenseth , CEO and Co-Founder of SolvaPay , alongside Redstone General Partners Samuli Sirén and Mickaël Bellaïche , about building payment infrastructure for the agentic economy. The conversation explores agent-to-agent transactions, usage-based billing, protocol interoperability, regulatory moats and why existing payment rails may not be designed for AI-native commerce. Key highlights Why AI agents need payment infrastructure built for agentic commerce How businesses can monetise APIs, datasets and digital services used by agents Why SolvaPay plugs into existing financial rails rather than bypassing them The “battle of protocols” across agent marketplaces and ecosystems Why regulation, licensing and identity matter in agentic payments Timestamps (00:00) Why payments are blocking the agentic economy (02:00) What SolvaPay is building (05:10) Why customers already want agent-to-agent transactions (06:30) Existing financial rails versus crypto-native approaches (08:10) The “battle of protocols” and AI marketplaces (12:00) Redstone on why agentic payments are real (17:20) Why Redstone invested…
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Host: Andreas Munk Holm
Guests: Viggo Stenseth, Samuli Sirén, Mickaël Bellaïche
Topics covered
- AI agents
- payment infrastructure
- agentic economy
- agent-to-agent transactions
- protocol interoperability
- regulatory challenges
Keywords
- AI commerce
- payment systems
- agentic payments
- financial rails
- API monetization
- digital services
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Organizations: SolvaPay, Redstone General Partners
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