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AI agents may soon shop, negotiate and make payments on our behalf. But will we be able to trust them? Join Marc Vanlerberghe, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at the Algorand Foundation, for a live webinar exploring the trust challenges that could slow, or even derail, the future of agentic commerce. We’ll examine: - The risks of today’s credential-sharing agent architectures - How verifiable identity and provenance can reduce fraud - The role of decentralized identifiers and user-controlled permissions - AC2, Algorand’s open protocol for trusted interactions between AI agents, users and merchants 📅 Thursday, September 24 ⏰ 2:00 PM ET | 8:00 PM CEST Register today!

We're thrilled to announce William Herkelrath as Algorand's new CEO. William brings two decades of experience across AI, enterprise software, institutional finance, and blockchain infrastructure. Most recently, he co-founded K3 Labs, an AI-first automation platform for building and running AI agent-managed workflows, following leadership roles at Chainlink and Curv.

Your AI agents are holding credentials that were never meant to be shared.

Handing your AI agent your credentials is like giving a contractor a copy of your house key. Convenient, until it ends up somewhere it shouldn't. AC2, the Agentic Communication and Control protocol, works more like a doorbell. The agent asks, you let it in, and nobody holds your key but you. You talk to the agent directly and approve each action before it happens. Most agentic tooling asks you to take the other deal, where the agent holds your credentials and you hope the blast radius stays small if something goes wrong. For anyone putting agents near payments or customer data, that distinction is the whole ballgame. AC2 is live now. Get started today: https://lnkd.in/e76KiBCT

What does every enterprise leader need to know about agentic commerce? A new kind of buyer is entering the market. It doesn't browse, it doesn't hesitate, and it has no use for a checkout page built for humans. AI agents are starting to negotiate terms, execute purchases, and manage ongoing spend for the organisations they represent. That makes payments and authorisation open questions for most enterprises. Read more in our blog: https://lnkd.in/eb8QefYN Algorand CSMO Marc Vanlerberghe goes deeper in a webinar on 18 August. Register now: https://lnkd.in/ehypw_jn

From groundbreaking technology to world-changing ideas, there's never been a better time to build on a blockchain, and to build on Algorand specifically. Featuring: Lofty, HesabPay, Alpha Arcade, Quantoz, Folks Finance, Finboot, and LabTrace - powered by Algorand.