The Protocol Roundtable Ep. 7: AI Agents Go Onchain
AI agents are starting to hold funds, pay for services and execute transactions without a human signing off on every step. The infrastructure to make that safe is still being built.
In Ep. 7 of The Protocol Roundtable, builders from across the stack take on one question for a full hour: what does it take for an AI agent to move money onchain safely?
On the table:
Compute: where agents run, and how to keep that compute verifiable
Wallets & keys: how an agent holds assets without holding unchecked power
Payments: machine-to-machine and pay-per-use transactions, stablecoin rails and emerging standards like x402
Permissions: spending limits, session keys, policy engines, and where humans stay in the loop
Risk & accountability: monitoring, guardrails, and who answers when an agent gets it wrong
No pitches. No softball questions. One problem, one hour.
🎙 Speakers
Darren Gray, Head of Ecosystem, QuickSwap
David Minarsch, Co-Founder & CEO, Valory · Founding Member, Olas Network
Ayush Bherwani, Senior DevRel Engineer, MetaMask
Don Johnson, Virtuals Protocol
Host: Andrei Yurkevich, Co-Founder, Protofire
📺 Live on X, LinkedIn and YouTube 🗓 Wednesday, 28 October · 3 PM UTC
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— The Protocol Roundtable is Protofire's live series on how onchain finance gets built. Past tables have included JP Morgan Payments, Fireblocks, Polygon, Base and Centrifuge.