Edge & Node

ampersend is featured on the @awscloud machine learning blog today. we built a pay-per-intelligence routing layer on top of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments. agents autonomously select a model tier, pay per request in USDC on Base, and stay within governed spend limits throughout. AgentCore handles wallet custody, payment signing, and session-level budgets at the infrastructure layer. the two-hop pattern: agent pays ampersend via x402 through AgentCore, ampersend settles with the upstream model provider. from the agent's perspective, it made one request to one endpoint. routing, payment, and provider selection all happen transparently in between. the full integration took under two weeks. the AWS team estimates equivalent wallet custody and signing infrastructure would have taken 3–4 months of engineering without AgentCore Payments. read the full breakdown on the AWS ML blog 👇

Headed to @RareEvo in Vegas next month? Our Developer Relations engineer @cryptomastery_ will be on the ground to connect with blockchain leaders and demo the full power of Amp for scaling enterprise use cases with enterprise-grade blockchain data. His talk is on the 2nd day, July 30th at 9:30 AM. Find him there or shoot a DM to connect and chat about scaling your company with verifiable blockchain data.

Solana is the hardest chain to query at institutional scale. The same architectural decisions that make it fast also make it genuinely difficult to reconstruct a coherent, auditable history of what happened onchain, and the tooling gap is wider than it looks from the outside. The account model is where it starts. Solana distributes all program state across millions of discrete accounts, each holding a slice of data. A single DeFi transaction touches a dozen of them: user token accounts, pool vaults, fee accounts, mint accounts. No single record tells you the full story. Compare that to Ethereum, where event logs are largely self-describing. Solana transactions are sequences of program instructions, each interpretable only by the program it targets, each encoded differently per protocol. Reconstructing what actually happened requires decoding every protocol's instruction format from scratch. Then there's scale. Solana generates roughly 220 to 260 GB of new ledger data per day at current traffic levels. The full unpruned ledger exceeds 400TB. Querying directly against an RPC node is slow, rate-limited, and frequently incomplete. Archival coverage from genesis is operationally intensive. Compressed accounts compound the problem: ZK compression cuts state costs dramatically but produces account updates that can exceed several MB in size, which RPC nodes truncate. Full state reconstruction from truncated logs requires infrastructure most compliance teams aren't set up to run. The analytics tools most teams reach for introduce latency. Dune's Solana data lags between 1 and 60 minutes depending on the dataset. For internal dashboards, that's fine. For compliance workflows and regulatory reporting where data needs to be both timely and defensible, it's a real limitation. Amp indexes Solana natively, decodes program-level instruction data into structured, queryable tables, and exposes the result through a standard SQL interface. No pipeline work, no infrastructure to manage. An analyst runs the same query they'd run against any data warehouse, and gets back a result that is cryptographically attested against the chain. That verifiability layer is what separates Amp from analytics-first tooling. Data freshness and SQL access are table stakes. The ability to prove the data is accurate and tamper-evident is what makes it suitable for institutional use. Amp covers Solana alongside other major chains in a unified schema, so cross-chain queries don't require separate pipelines or normalization work. Institutional engagement with Solana is accelerating. Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union are already building on Solana infrastructure. As Solana becomes a larger part of institutions' compliance and reporting surface area, clean, verifiable, SQL-accessible data becomes a core requirement.

Next week in San Francisco 🌁 @rodventures and @impranavm_ are presenting at @Microsoft's AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. Rodrigo opens with the strategic case for programmable budget governance: why per-agent spend limits, real-time transaction visibility, and full audit trails are foundational requirements for any team running agents in production. 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 at ecosystem scale. Pranav goes deep on the stack: onchain data from @graphprotocol, Amp Enterprise for auditable datasets at scale, @ampersend_ai wired into LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGPT, and x402 and A2A standards for interoperable agent payments, including a full end-to-end deployment demo. 🗓️ Day 4 / July 2, 2026 🚪 Agentic Commerce track / Room 2006 ⏰ 1:30pm-1:50pm

Throwback to Paris - @rodventures on stage at @proofoftalk for "DeFi Under Attack: Securing Onchain Finance and the Machine Economy" alongside @P3b7_ from @Ledger, @kostascrypto from @Mysten_Labs, Jason Jiang from @CertiK, moderated by @nikolastojanow from @BankFrick. Rodrigo's three takes from the Louvre: 1️⃣ Human approval at the scale of billions of microtransactions is a bottleneck, and policy-based automation is the only architecture that holds. 2️⃣ The AI threat to DeFi is already active, with exploits running now while the industry waits on quantum. 3️⃣ Institutional trust has to be earned. Multisig failures and poor risk hygiene are too common for 2028 standards to stay optional. Good room. Hard problems. Watch the full panel ⬇️

We recently debated whether AI will break DeFi before we fix it on the stage at the Louvre for @proofoftalk,  "DeFi Under Attack" with @P3b7_, Konstantinos Chalkias, Jason Jiang, moderated by @NikolaBank. Here's where I landed: Three takes: At the scale of billions of microtransactions, human approval isn't a safeguard. It's a bottleneck. Policy-based automation is the only path. AI is a more immediate threat than quantum. Post-quantum crypto matters, but AI-driven exploits are already here. The industry hasn't earned institutional trust yet. Multisig failures and poor risk hygiene aren't edge cases. Higher standards before 2028 isn't optional. Good room. Hard problems. Full panel here: youtube.com/watch?v=9kE0PJ…

Webinar: What Governs Your Agents? How to Keep Agents Compliant in the Era of Autonomous Payments x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

🚨We're going live today with @chainlink and @trmlabs: a free workshop on autonomous agent payments, covering the risk, the threat surface, the proof layer, and the controls. Live at 4PM UTC on X or YouTube. 🔗 luma.com/1xu0jgc3

Tomorrow we sit down with @chainlink and @trmlabs to talk governance for AI agents that transact on their own. Forward this to whoever owns compliance at your company, because the hour covers exactly what they keep asking about: enterprise exposure, the agentic threat landscape, cryptographic proof of execution, and controls that hold up in an audit. 🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

@ampersend_ai @chainlink @trmlabs We'll be there!

This Thursday we are going to be diving into agentic governance and compliance. Speakers from @edgeandnode, @chainlink and @trmlabs will cover interesting talking points on how to keep your AI agents compliant in the era of autonomous payments. 💸 luma.com/1xu0jgc3

Team E&N shipping, shipping, shipping 🚢

The question Rodrigo Coelho @rodventures (CEO, @edgeandnode) brought to the Louvre: How do you secure Agentic Commerce before the infrastructure falls behind? Edge & Node is working on the answer from the data side, and they're not waiting around. Global conferences, institutional partnerships, enterprise growth. Proof of Talk 2026 was the European chapter of that story. "We're going to continue on that path over the next six to eight months and really grow that enterprise business." Thank you Rodrigo and the Edge & Node team for making the Louvre one of your stops. Proud to have Edge & Node as a Platinum Partner of Proof of Talk 2026. Sign up for our next edition via the link below. proofoftalk.io/invite-2026/

Closing out the lineup for our June 18 webinar on compliance for autonomous agent transactions: Alex Kopferschmitt, strategic partnerships at @trmlabs. Alex works with financial institutions and public sector teams on turning blockchain intelligence into working defense against illicit finance, with a decade across cybersecurity and enterprise tech behind him. Live on the webinar, he will map the agentic threat surface: the attack vectors and compliance failures that emerge once agents transact on their own. 🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

When an autonomous agent initiates a payment, the liability still lands on a person. We're unpacking what that means for enterprises with Chainlink and TRM Labs: where exposure sits, which attack vectors are emerging, how verifiable execution works, and what policy enforcement requires at machine speed. @rodventures from @ampersend_ai, @rowlandgraus from @chainlink, and Alex Kopferschmitt from @trmlabs live on X and YouTube. 🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

Another speaker for our June 18 webinar on agent payment governance: @rowlandgraus, who leads the Chainlink for Agents product at @chainlink. Rowland has been shipping web3 products since 2020 and building AI products for the past two years, across both retail and enterprise use cases. His segment covers where verifiable execution fits in agent workflows and how ACE turns "trust the agent" into something an auditor can actually check. 🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

Whether you're an enterprise institution with agents spending at swarm scale, or a solo operator buying things online, you need to know the risks and solutions to agent compliance. Come learn everything you need to know from the experts at this free webinar!

Meet speaker one for our June 18 webinar on governing software that spends real money: @rodventures, CEO of @edgeandnode, the team building ampersend. Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur who joined @graphprotocol as its first hire before taking the helm at Edge & Node. He bookends the hour: opening on enterprise risk and what a missing governance layer costs a CFO today, then closing with how ampersend enforces policy end to end, spending limits and identity through audit trails and cross-chain observability, demo included. 🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

🎤 Free webinar on agent payment governance 🗓️ June 18, 4PM UTC 📍 Live on X and YouTube 🔗 RSVP: luma.com/1xu0jgc3

What governs your agents?