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Rodrigo Coelho

Rodrigo Coelho

Edge & Node

@rodventures

**Rodrigo Coelho** (pronounced KWAY-lee-o) is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned technology leader and early web3 innovator with over two decades of experience in engineering, entrepreneurship, and decentralized infrastructure. In 2025, he became **Chief Executive Officer of Edge & Node**, the core developer of **The Graph**, where he guides the company’s vision, strategy, and global growth. Rodrigo was the first hire for The Graph, playing a pivotal role in its early architecture, ecosystem development, and community expansion. His career began in the late 1990s, when he co-founded an application development firm during the early web era, delivering solutions for Fortune 500 clients. He later founded and successfully exited two technology startups, further solidifying his track record in innovation and leadership. With a foundation in Industrial Engineering, Rodrigo is recognized for his strategic vision and deep technical expertise. He is committed to advancing the decentralized web, empowering developers, and fostering a thriving global community through research, partnerships, and open innovation. He is based in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Agent Spending Without Controls: The Missing Infrastructure Layer for AI Pa…
1:30 PM·Track 2 · Room 2006

AI agents are already transacting autonomously, but the infrastructure to govern how they spend does not yet exist. Traditional payment rails were built for humans, not for systems making thousands of micro-decisions per minute on someone else's behalf. This session brings together Edge & Node's CEO and Senior Solutions Architect to cover both the strategic case and the technical implementation. Rodrigo opens with the infrastructure gap: why programmable budget governance is a foundational requirement for any team deploying agents in production, and what it means to have real-time visibility and a full audit trail across every agent transaction. 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 for the broader ecosystem. Pranav then goes deep on the stack: how structured, indexed blockchain data from The Graph powers reliable agent decision-making, how Amp Enterprise extends that into auditable datasets at production scale, and what it looks like in practice to wire ampersend into agent frameworks including LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT, and custom-built systems. He walks through the x402 and A2A standards that make agent payments interoperable and what a real deployment looks like end to end. The session closes with the bigger picture: bots are already half of all internet traffic, TradFi and DeFi are converging, and the infrastructure stack that wins is the one built for where they meet. Speakers: Rodrigo Coelho — Edge & Node; Pranav Maheshwari — Edge & Node.

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