374: Inside OpenMatter: MPC, Agent Security, and the $0.02 Transaction Revolution with Guest Speaker Renee Davis from OpenMatter

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Renee Davis about AI agents, blockchain, and the future of micro-transactions.

In this episode, I sit down with Renee Davis from OpenMatter to explore the intersection of AI agents and blockchain infrastructure. We discuss why 51% of internet traffic is already agents, the critical security vulnerabilities in tools like OpenClaw, and how multi-party computation (MPC) enables privacy-preserving machine learning. Renee explains why crypto is essential for the agent economy—hint: credit cards can't handle micro-transactions like a two-cent payment. We also dive into OpenMatter's three pillars: masked computing, MatterML, and DataVisor, plus what's coming in the next 12 months. If you're building with AI agents or curious about the convergence of Web3 and AI, this conversation is packed with insights. --- CONNECT --- OpenMatter: https://onboard.openmatter.network --- KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS --- • [01:42] Renee's journey from enterprise analytics to DAOs and AI • [03:11] AI and NLP have been around for decades—longer than most realize • [04:42] OpenMatter solves agent hosting, ZK safety checks, and output compliance • [08:17] Multi-party computation (MPC) explained: collaborative computing without sharing raw data • [10:08] 51% of internet traffic is already…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Kamani

Guest: Renee Davis

Topics covered

• AI agents
• blockchain infrastructure
• multi-party computation
• agent economy
• security vulnerabilities
• micro-transactions
• Web3 and AI convergence

Keywords

• AI agents
• blockchain
• multi-party computation
• OpenMatter
• security vulnerabilities
• micro-transactions
• credit cards
• DataVisor
• agent economy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenMatter, OpenClaw, IronClaw, ZeroClaw

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