Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Lily Liu on why AI agents need crypto payment rails:

"You have a machine-to-machine economy that you don't have payment rails for. The payment rails that we have today are built around humans...

You can't actually do a peer-to-peer micropayment online today, which is why everything has been bundled through SaaS and also been bundled through effectively advertising as an intermediate way of aggregating what is a lot of microtransactions."

– Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2026