Tyllen Bicakcic

Roadblock Title:

Learn how to power agentic payments with FIAT, crypto, and compliant infrastructure

Time:

Wednesday - 2:00 PM (Tower C)

Abstract:

Agents are coming faster…and already here. But they won’t truly have the impact we all know they can unless they can utilize money. For anyone who has spent time deeply in payment systems and AI capabilities, it’s glaringly obvious that there is a need for different infrastructure for AI agents as agentic capabilities take off. In most cases, if a system is acting as you (like in your Doordash or Seamless app), it can pay with your card on file. However, in any case where it has to go to the internet and do something on your behalf (like buy a flight or book something for your kids), or in most B2B cases, you will need to make payments. This session explores why agent-based payments differ from today’s typical online payments. It covers navigating LLMs that are probabilistic versus deterministic in nature and how to authorize KYC for a good bot when the financial systems have been set up for bad bots.

Bio:

Tyllen Bicakcic is the CEO and Co-Founder of Payman, where he’s building the financial access layer for AI Agents. Payman gives developers secure, programmable tools to let their AI agents access and move money, without needing to own it, hold it, or rebuild banking infrastructure. Whether it’s paying humans, managing treasury, or executing transactions, Payman abstracts the complexity of financial systems so developers can focus on intelligence, not compliance.

Before starting Payman, Tyllen led Developer Relations at Uniswap Foundation and Dapper Labs, helping grow two of the most influential web3 developer ecosystems. He previously worked on product at Meta, focused on machine learning infrastructure and Facebook Watch. He’s raised over $13M from Visa, Coinbase, Freestyle, and Circle.