Who's Watching the Agent? | Rob Viglione | Horizen Labs [EP. 310]

About this episode

Rob Viglione discusses the future of finance and the role of cryptographic trust in the agentic economy.

Who's watching the agent? That's the question at the heart of this episode — and it's one that's going to define the next decade of finance. Rob Viglione spent his career figuring out how machines make decisions in high-stakes environments. From the US Air Force to Afghanistan, and now as Co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, he's building the cryptographic trust infrastructure for the agentic economy. Every asset class will be tokenized. Agents will be trading 24/7 across all of them. Your data will be completely public. All the time. The guardrails don't exist yet — and the answer is Zero Knowledge Cryptography. The technology that lets agents prove they did what they were supposed to, without revealing how they did it. Find Rob at horizenlabs.io and follow him on X at @robviglione MoneyNeverSleeps is on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@moneyneversleeps1814 And on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/moneyneversleeps/id1455819294 CHAPTERS: 00:00 Who's Watching the Agent?01:30 The Stakes of Agentic Commerce03:00 What Breaks When Agents Hit Financial Rails05:00 Is TradFi Infiltrating or Integrating with DeFi?07:30 Zero Knowledge Cryptography and Privacy on Public…

People in this episode

Host: Pete Townsend

Guest: Rob Viglione

Topics covered

• agentic economy
• cryptography
• finance
• tokenization
• privacy
• DeFi
• AI

Keywords

• Zero Knowledge Cryptography
• agentic commerce
• financial rails
• TradFi
• DeFi
• privacy
• blockchain
• tokenization
• ZKProofs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Horizen Labs, US Air Force

Places: Afghanistan

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