Give an Agent a budget, or let it do business with another Agent—what ensures security?

On October 6, at C1 Transform 2026 in San Francisco, our co-founder and CEO Chi Zhang delivered a talk titled "Enabling Agents as Economic Actors with AI-Native Infrastructure," exploring what kind of infrastructure Agents need to become participants in economic activity:

▷ Verifiable identity and bounded permissions, so Agents can act within their budget and authorization limits.
▷ Clear transaction terms and acceptance criteria, with settlement completed based on proof of delivery.
▷ Auditable transaction records, so every payment can be traced back to the person who authorized it.

Speakers at the event came from AnthropicAI spacexai nvidia vercel brexHQ togethercompute TrustVanta daytonaio and DraftKings.

Thanks to ConductorOneInc for organizing this event and bringing leaders from AI, engineering, and security together to discuss Agent governance and deployment.

Keep building the Agent economy. 🪁