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Agentic
Finance
Report.

Mapping the road for institutional capital managed by AI agents.

A Swiss bank, two blockchain foundations and two AI companies.

AI agents will run institutional capital.
The only question is what they are allowed to do.

In the twelve months to April 2026, agents settled roughly 176 million payments on public blockchains, most worth between one and ten cents. The value is trivial. The count is not. Artificial intelligence, blockchain settlement and tokenised assets were three separate stories, and they are now one system: software can hold, allocate and move capital without waiting for a person.

Accountability stays where it was. Enforcement moves from review after the fact to a boundary set before the agent acts: the mandate, the identity it carries and the rails it may use.

From the report

Agentic Finance: capital managed continuously rather than periodically, by software acting inside mandates that people write and can withdraw, on rails that settle at machine speed.

Evidence

What the evidence shows.

BlackRock's Digital Assets Research team published The Machine-Native Economy in September 2026: AI is machine-native intelligence, digital assets are machine-native money, and agentic commerce needs rails built for machine speed. Its figures put the rails this report describes in context.

BlackRock is not a participant in this report and has not reviewed or endorsed it.

Weeks to deploy, months to govern.

Start with idle cash, where the mandate fits on a page.

Agent-driven settlement is real, and still small.

~176m
On-chain agent transactions
~$73m
Value settled
1–10c
Typical transaction
Agents today: on-chain agent settlement
MetricValue
On-chain agent transactions~176m
Value settled~$73m
Typical transaction1–10c

Twelve months to April 2026. The count supports this report's argument; the dollar volume does not yet. Keyrock, via Hashed Emergent

Stablecoins now move volume in the same range as the card networks.

US$ trillions, 2025
Payment volume, US$ trillions, 2025
NetworkUS$ trillions
Stablecoins11.2
Visa16.7
Mastercard10.6

Not directly comparable: Visa reports total volume including cash, Mastercard reports gross dollar volume, and the stablecoin figure is adjusted to exclude internal transfers and high-frequency activity. Visa Onchain Analytics and Allium, via BlackRock, September 2026

And they are growing at a different rate.

Compound annual growth, 2020 to 2025
Growth, compound annual growth 2020 to 2025
RailCAGR
Stablecoin volume80%
ACH, the US bank payments network8.5%

ACH moved $93 trillion in 2025 between US bank accounts, from a far larger base. Nacha and Visa Onchain Analytics, via BlackRock, September 2026

What follows if it scales.

15–25%
Of US e-commerce handled by AI agents by 2030
$4.8tn+
Addressable capital over five years
~200 bps
A year on a $500 million treasury, from continuous intraday allocation
The opportunity: forecast and modelled figures
MetricValue
Of US e-commerce handled by AI agents by 203015–25%
Addressable capital over five years$4.8tn+
A year on a $500 million treasury, from continuous intraday allocation~200 bps

The first is a forecast; the others are model outputs. Bain & Company · Modelled by APEX:E3, not measured

Before the machine acts, five things must be true. Each one now has an owner.

  • Regulated foundation
    The asset is held by a regulated institution.
    Chapter 03
    Ready
  • Execution and settlement
    The rail settles finally and cheaply.
    Chapter 04
    Ready
  • Sovereign inference
    The reasoning runs where the institution can see and trust it.
    Chapter 05
    Ready
  • Orchestration
    The decision is attributable to the agent that made it.
    APEX:E3 · ALICE
    Chapter 06
    Ready
  • Verifiable identity
    The agent is identifiable as acting for a legal entity.
    Ready

Co-authors

Sovereign AI infrastructure for regulated industries.

FINMA-regulated Swiss bank for digital assets.

The public ledger for agent-scale settlement.

Enterprise AI infrastructure for capital markets, operator of ALICE.

Verifiable organisational identity for autonomous agents: the vLEI on public blockchains, through Veridian and the KERI/ACDC ecosystem.

Guest contributions

Blindsight

Runtime protection for AI agents against prompt injection and data poisoning.

CV VC

Early-stage investor in digital assets and AI since 2019. Guest article, “Owning the Frontier Before It Is Priced,” by David Long, Lukas Etter and Kaya Tilev, General Partners. Also the report’s co-publishing partner.

Marcus Maute
Lead author
Marcus Maute
TensorX Swiss Representative
marcusmaute.com
Tim Grant
Foreword
Tim Grant
Executive Chairman, TensorX

Eight chapters and two guest contributions.

  1. Foreword
    Build it so that you can answer for it
    Tim Grant
  2. 01
    Executive Summary
    Marcus Maute
  3. 02
    What Is Agentic Finance?
    Marcus Maute
  4. 03
    The Regulated Banking Foundation
    AMINA Bank
  5. 04
    Why Solana Is the Execution Layer
    Solana Foundation
  6. 05
    Sovereign AI Infrastructure
    TensorX
  7. 06
    ALICE: The Orchestration Layer
    APEX:E3
  8. 07
    Verifiable Identity, the Trust Layer
    Cardano Foundation
  9. Guest
    The Attack That Never Breaks a Rule
    Blindsight
  10. Guest
    Owning the Frontier Before It Is Priced
    CV VC
  11. 08
    Conclusions & Recommendations
    Marcus Maute
29–30 Sept 2026Kongresshaus Zurich, Switzerland
Launch venue · CV Summit 2026

Launched at CV Summit.

Switzerland’s Largest Institutional Digital Assets & AI Conference

Official launch of the Agentic Finance Report

What is CV Summit?

CV Summit is Switzerland’s leading institutional digital assets & AI business conference uniting 3’000+ attendees to explore the forces reshaping the global economy. You can expect two days jam-packed with content across three stages, and plenty of networking opportunities.

The report launches here

The Agentic Finance Report is launched at CV Summit 2026. CV VC is the report’s official co-publishing partner and shares it with CV Summit’s press partners.

  • 3,000+Attendees
  • 200Speakers
  • 3Stages & workshops
  • 1,000m²Exhibition space

Summit tracks

Financial Infrastructure

Explore how institutions are creating more efficient, secure, and interconnected financial markets through stablecoins, digital custody, and more.

Tokenization of Capital Markets

Explore tokenized securities, institutional DeFi, digital exchanges, trading infrastructure, and the evolution of programmable financial markets.

AI & The Intelligent Economy

Explore AI in finance, autonomous systems, intelligent organizations, and the rise of agentic intelligence as a new layer of value creation.

Wealth & Asset Management

Explore how investment strategies are adapting to embrace innovation and redefining wealth creation for the future.

CV VC
Official co-publishing partner
CV VC AG · Zug · cvvc.com
CV Labs
Organiser
CV Labs
cvsummit.ch
CV Summit 2026 · Presenting Partner
Franklin Templeton

Partners of CV Summit are named here as partners of the event. They are not authors of or participants in this report, and they have not reviewed or endorsed it.

Content in this section is taken from cvsummit.ch and cvvc.com.

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Maute, M. (ed.), with TensorX, AMINA Bank, Solana Foundation, APEX:E3 and Cardano Foundation; guest contributions by Blindsight and CV VC (2026). Agentic Finance Report: How Autonomous AI Agents Are Reconfiguring the Management, Movement and Settlement of Institutional Capital. Industry report, edition 1.0. Released at CV Summit, Zurich, 29–30 September 2026. agenticfinancereport.com

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