---
title: "Agent Spending Without Controls: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for AI Pa…"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "1:30pm-1:50pm"
track: "Agentic Commerce"
room: "Track 2"
speakers: ["Rodrigo Coelho", "Pranav Maheshwari"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Agentic Commerce"
scheduleRoom: "Track 2"
scheduleLabels: ["Agentic Commerce", "Track 2", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Agent Spending Without Controls: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for AI Pa…

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:30pm-1:50pm
- Track/room: Agentic Commerce · Track 2
- Speaker(s): Rodrigo Coelho, Pranav Maheshwari
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Agentic Commerce
- Room: Track 2
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
AI agents are already transacting autonomously, but the infrastructure to govern how they spend does not yet exist. Traditional payment rails were built for humans, not for systems making thousands of micro-decisions per minute on someone else's behalf. This session brings together Edge & Node's CEO and Senior Solutions Architect to cover both the strategic case and the technical implementation. Rodrigo opens with the infrastructure gap: why programmable budget governance is a foundational requirement for any team deploying agents in production, and what it means to have real-time visibility and a full audit trail across every agent transaction. He also covers Edge & Node's founding membership in the x402 Foundation and why open standards for agent-to-agent and agent-to-service payments matter for the broader ecosystem. Pranav then goes deep on the stack: how structured, indexed blockchain data from The Graph powers reliable agent decision-making, how Amp Enterprise extends that into auditable datasets at production scale, and what it looks like in practice to wire ampersend into agent frameworks including LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT, and custom-built systems. He walks through the x402 and A2A standards that make agent payments interoperable and what a real deployment looks like end to end. The session closes with the bigger picture: bots are already half of all internet traffic, TradFi and DeFi are converging, and the infrastructure stack that wins is the one built for where they meet.

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## People
- [[rodrigo-coelho]]
- [[pranav-maheshwari]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Agent Spending Without Controls: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for AI Pa… ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 1:30pm-1:50pm - Track/room: Agentic Commerce · Track 2 - Speaker(s): Rodrigo Coelho, Pranav Maheshwari - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Agentic Commerce - Room: Track 2 - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description AI agents are already transacting autonomously, but the infrastructure to govern how they spend does not yet exist. Traditional payment rails were built for humans, not for systems making thousands of micro-decisions per minute on someone else's behalf. This session brings together Edge & Node's CEO and Senior Solutions Architect to cover both the strategic case and the technical implementation. Rodrigo opens with the infrastructure gap: why programmable budget governance is a foundational requirement for any team deploying agents in production, and what it means to have real-time visibility and a full audit trail across every agent transaction.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[rodrigo-coelho|Rodrigo Coelho]] — CEO at [[edge-and-node|Edge & Node]].
- [[pranav-maheshwari|Pranav Maheshwari]] — Director of Integrations at [[edge-and-node|Edge And Node]].

### Topics Covered
- [[agent-security]]

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