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Episode #181: Live from Merge Sao Paulo with Edge & Node CEO Rodrigo Coelho
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- Brazil Crypto Report
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- Mar 26, 2026
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🙌 You can listen to BCR on your favorite podcast platform YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts 🔥 Join the BCR English language Telegram group to continue the conversation Ola pessoal! At Merge São Paulo, I caught up with Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node, which is the original team behind The Graph protocol. We talked about one of the most exciting intersections in tech right now: agentic commerce and the future of blockchain-powered payments. Rodrigo was born in Brazil, and his family moved to the US when he was young. His path into Web3 started the way a lot of great origin stories do, by accident. Working out of a San Francisco co-working space in 2016, he struck up a friendship with Yaniv Tal, who was building the pitch deck for what would become The Graph. A few years later, Rodrigo was the team’s first hire. He has been with them ever since, taking over as CEO just over a year ago. For the uninitiated, The Graph is the indexing and querying layer that sits beneath much of Web3. If you have ever interacted with a decentralized application, you have almost certainly used it without knowing it. Edge & Node recently launched AMP, a new product that modernizes that infrastructure for institutional use. It offers cryptographic data verification, cross-chain compatibility, and a predictable flat-fee pricing model that banks and financial institutions are finding increasingly attractive as their API costs spiral. The part of our conversation that really stood out was the discussion around agentic commerce. As AI agents become capable of executing real-world tasks autonomously, they need a way to pay for things. A rational agent is not going to choose a payment rail that charges a 3% fee and requires KYC when it could settle a transaction for a thousandth of a cent using s…