Edge & Node(@edgeandnode):Edge & Node CEO @rodventures joined Kristina Podnar on The Power of Digital Policy podcast to talk through the moment AI stops advising and starts spending. An agent with access to a payment rail holds permission. Authorization is a separate grant of authority, and on stablecoin rails the money is gone the second it moves, so the two get confused exactly once. Rodrigo makes the case for policy checks at the wallet level, outside the LLM, where a hallucination or prompt injection cannot reach them. Also in the episode: who carries accountability when an agent pays wrong, and the four areas regulators should address first: identity, authorization, observability, and governance. Full episode:

2026.08.20 18:57

Edge & Node CEO @rodventures joined Kristina Podnar on The Power of Digital Policy podcast to talk through the moment AI stops advising and starts spending. An agent with access to a payment rail holds permission. Authorization is a separate grant of authority, and on stablecoin rails the money is gone the second it moves, so the two get confused exactly once. Rodrigo makes the case for policy checks at the wallet level, outside the LLM, where a hallucination or prompt injection cannot reach them. Also in the episode: who carries accountability when an agent pays wrong, and the four areas regulators should address first: identity, authorization, observability, and governance. Full episode: