Seminar on Agent Security and Agent Payments at Stanford

​Program

​4:00–4:15 — Keynote: Securing Agentic Commerce with IronClaw + GTC Takeaways
Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR; Co-Author of the Transformer whitepaper

​4:15–4:55 — Panel: Security for Autonomous AI Agents (OpenClaw)
Dan Boneh, Stanford Cryptography Professor

​Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder, NEAR; Co-Author of the Transformer whitepaper

​Curtis Spencer, Co-Founder, Electric Capital; ex-Meta Engineering; Stanford engineer

​Moderator: Francesco Piccoli, Co-Founder, Almanax; Berkeley engineer

​4:55–5:40 — Panel: Agentic Payments
Erik Reppel, Head of Engineering, Coinbase Developer Platform; Author of x402

​Gagan Mac, VP & Head of Developer Products, Circle

​Cameron Dennis, Head of AI, NEAR

​Ehsan Yousefzadeh, Former Head of Product Management, PayPal AI; Head of Product, Kite

​Moderator: Steven Willinger, General Partner, Blockchain Builders Fund; Stanford MBA