What changes when AI agents can transact on their own?
Andreas Munk Holm speaks with Viggo Stenseth, CEO and Co-Founder of SolvaPay, alongside Redstone General Partners Samuli Sirén and Mickaël Bellaïche, about building payment infrastructure for the agentic economy.
The conversation explores agent-to-agent transactions, usage-based billing, protocol interoperability, regulatory moats and why existing payment rails may not be designed for AI-native commerce.
Key highlights
- Why AI agents need payment infrastructure built for agentic commerce
- How businesses can monetise APIs, datasets and digital services used by agents
- Why SolvaPay plugs into existing financial rails rather than bypassing them
- The “battle of protocols” across agent marketplaces and ecosystems
- Why regulation, licensing and identity matter in agentic payments
Timestamps
- (00:00) Why payments are blocking the agentic economy
- (02:00) What SolvaPay is building
- (05:10) Why customers already want agent-to-agent transactions
- (06:30) Existing financial rails versus crypto-native approaches
- (08:10) The “battle of protocols” and AI marketplaces
- (12:00) Redstone on why agentic payments are real
- (17:20) Why Redstone invested before traction existed
- (27:00) Can SolvaPay become the Stripe for AI agents?
- (32:00) Why incumbents may struggle to adapt
- (36:10) Building long term versus building for exit
- (41:00) Does the world need an agentic bank?
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