Agentic Payments Startup Pitches & Institutional Digital Assets Panel | Plug and Play's Crypto & Digital Assets Expo @ Silicon Valley Summit
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Meet 12 leading startups building the infrastructure for agentic commerce and institutional digital assets.
Join Plug and Play and XDC Network for the XDC AI Agents and Blockchain Accelerator showcase, bringing together bank innovation leaders and venture capital investors for startup pitches and an institutional panel. Discover potential pilot partners and investment opportunities across autonomous payments, agent identity, transaction controls, stablecoin infrastructure, and tokenization.
Hear the institutional perspective from:
Abradat Kamalpour, Partner, Jones Day, specializing in fintech, blockchain and structured finance (Moderator).
Alex Ye, Banker, Erebor.
Nalin Mittal, Product Manager, Google Cloud - Digital Assets at Google
Jerald David, CEO, Lynq; previously President of Arca Labs.
The institutions represented bring perspectives spanning settlement, banking and regulation:
Jones Day: Global law firm with a fintech team of 175+ lawyers spanning 32 jurisdictions, advising on financial technology and digital assets.
Erebor: Technology- and digital-asset-focused U.S. national bank that reportedly surpassed $7B in deposits by October 2026, eight months after launch.
Google Cloud: Partnering with CME Group and BMO to develop 24/7 tokenized cash and institutional settlement capabilities through its Universal Ledger platform.
Lynq: Real-time, interest-bearing institutional settlement network with 30+ institutional partners, including leading firms such as B2C2, Galaxy and Wintermute.
Meet the startups pitching:
t54: Risk controls for agent-initiated payments, with real-time approval decisions and tamper-evident transaction audit trails.
Hinkal: Privacy infrastructure for stablecoin payments that protects sensitive transaction and user data while supporting compliance.
BlockRun: Routing and payments connecting AI agents to 100+ models, data and tool APIs, with pricing disclosed before each call.
AstraSync: “Know Your Agent” infrastructure verifying agent identity, authority and permissions so counterparties can transact safely.
Vishwa: Infrastructure for autonomous agent payments and compute sourcing, with every action checked against organizational rules.
ICTI: Institutional tokenization platform combining issuance, settlement, compliance and oversight in one programmable ecosystem.
Keyban: Financial infrastructure enabling enterprise AI agents to pay, get paid and manage funds under finance teams’ controls.
bond.credit: Credit and underwriting infrastructure translating verifiable onchain performance into risk ratings for AI-native asset managers.
Synergetics: Verified identity and payment infrastructure enabling AI agents to transact across enterprise boundaries.
Quote.Trade: AI-native dark pool combining aggregated liquidity, private executable quotes, stablecoin settlement and institutional APIs.
Rupi: AI-native trade finance infrastructure turning fragmented transaction data into cases lenders can approve, fund, monitor and refinance.
XDC AI: Noncustodial smart wallets enabling AI agents to pay for APIs per call in USDC on XDC Network, without gas fees for the agent.
Connect with the founders and institutions building the next generation of financial infrastructure.
About Plug and Play: Plug and Play is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm and global innovation platform with $1B+ AUM, 70+ offices in 40+ countries, 2,500+ startup investments, 40+ unicorns, and 550+ corporate partners.
About XDC Network: XDC Network is an enterprise-focused, EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain for payments, trade finance, and real-world asset tokenization, with 1.2B+ cumulative transactions, and 300+ validators supporting its growing ecosystem.