This Week in Fintech
This Week in Fintech
This Week In Fintech
Alchemy Is Building the Wallet Layer for Agentic Commerce You Can Trust
47 minutes Posted Aug 19, 2026 at 11:00 am.
Introduction to Blake
The Wallet Mission
What A Wallet Really Is
Smart Wallets And Better UX
Why Stablecoins Matter On-Chain
Alchemy’s Wallet Strategy Shift
Smart Wallet Adoption And Packaging
Gas Sponsorship As The Breakthrough
X402 And Native Internet Payments
AI Traffic Changes Online Business
Micropayments Economics With Stablecoins
Real Micropayments Demo With Agents
Alchemy Agent Card Pay Wallet
Guardrails Budgets And Permissions
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Host Justin Friedman interviews Blake Duncan, Alchemy’s Lead Agent Experience Engineer, about what happens when AI agents replace humans as the economic decision-maker. They start with fundamentals: What makes a smart wallet “smart” and how the x402 protocol will enable the pay-per-use Internet as agents increasingly outnumber human visitors. Blake argues that mainstream adoption will accelerate when wallets and applications turn on smart features and improvements in user experience, such as ...