Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments @ Stanford GSB, presented by Verda Ventures
Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments
AI agents are moving quickly from answering questions to taking actions — shopping, transacting, managing money, and increasingly interacting with financial infrastructure on our behalf.
That shift is creating a new stack across agentic commerce, payments, stablecoins, identity, financial infrastructure, and AI-native applications.
On September 24, Fintechnize is bringing together investors, builders, and operators at Stanford GSB for an afternoon discussion on how this new stack is taking shape — and where real adoption is beginning to emerge.
We’ll explore questions including:
What happens when AI agents become economic actors?
What new payment, identity, trust, and settlement infrastructure do agents require?
Where do stablecoins and crypto rails fit into agentic commerce?
How are platforms such as Coinbase approaching AI and agentic payments?
Which agentic finance use cases are becoming real today — and which are still ahead of the market?
Presented by Verda Ventures
Verda Ventures is an investment firm focused on blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure, payments, stablecoins, and the next generation of digital finance.
Verda has been investing directly across many of the building blocks now converging with agentic finance. Its portfolio includes companies such as Yellow Card, Beam, Mural, El Dorado, and Mento Labs, spanning stablecoin infrastructure, cross-border payments, enterprise money movement, local-currency stablecoins, and emerging-market financial infrastructure.
The firm also launched the MiniPay Fund in partnership with Opera, backing products across payments, remittances, identity, and stablecoin-based financial services — giving Verda a hands-on view into how new financial rails move from infrastructure to real-world adoption.
Partnered with
Kite is building the payments layer for the agent economy, giving autonomous agents the identity, permissions, and settlement infrastructure needed to transact at scale.
With the launch of Kite Agent Passport and integrations across emerging agent-payment standards including x402 and Google AP2, Kite is positioning itself as core infrastructure for autonomous, programmable commerce.
Buy&Ship is a global cross-border commerce platform helping consumers access products and merchants across different markets around the world.
AEON is building crypto payment infra connecting digital assets with real-world commerce, supporting the broader shift toward programmable and AI-enabled payments.
NihaoPay is an online payments company offering businesses a cheap and fast way to make international contactless payments, as well as borderless debit cards and virtual bank accounts.
Special Thanks
MSx Student Association, Stanford Graduate School of Business represents the Stanford GSB MSx community and helps foster student activities, engagement, and connections across the broader GSB community.
Who Should Join
This gathering is designed for founders, investors, product leaders, payments and fintech operators, AI builders, and anyone working at the intersection of:
AI Agents · Commerce · Payments · Stablecoins · Crypto · Financial Infrastructure
Expect an afternoon of substantive conversations, new ideas, and open networking with people actively building the next generation of financial and commerce infrastructure.
NOTE: For GSB students, this event is exclusively for MSx & MBA2. So we will kindly decline applications from all MBA1 students.
September 24, 2026
6:00–8:00 PM
Stanford GSB
A Fintechnize event.