Most crypto projects pitch their technology at conferences full of people who already own crypto. Cardano just took a different approach, walking into the German Parliament and presenting an AI agent marketplace to actual lawmakers.
On June 10, Patrick Tobler, co-founder of MasumiNetwork, presented at the 7th Blockchain Roundtable held inside the German Bundestag in Berlin. The session focused on AI and blockchain as foundational pillars of digital sovereignty.
What Masumi actually does
The Masumi protocol is a decentralized network built on Cardano that lets AI agents autonomously interact, transact, and log their decisions. Central to the pitch is the Sokosumi marketplace, which functions as the storefront where businesses can hire or offer AI agents for various services. The platform supports multiple payment types, ensures secure digital identities for agents, and creates verifiable records of every transaction and decision an agent makes.
The presentation wasn’t just theoretical. Tobler demonstrated real-world enterprise use cases developed in collaboration with the Serviceplan Group, one of Europe’s largest independent agency groups. The partnership with NMKR, a Cardano-native infrastructure provider, rounds out the technical stack powering the marketplace.
Why the Bundestag matters more than a conference stage
The Blockchain Roundtable is a recurring policy discussion inside Germany’s federal parliament. This was its seventh edition. The audience includes legislators, policy advisors, and business leaders who are actively shaping Germany’s approach to digital infrastructure regulation.
The Cardano Foundation framed this as a significant opportunity for Cardano-based projects to demonstrate practical blockchain solutions to both lawmakers and enterprises.
The broader Cardano AI push
The Cardano ecosystem has been steadily building out AI-related infrastructure. Multiple initiatives within the ecosystem now focus on enabling AI agents to autonomously receive payments and execute transactions through integrated protocols.
Previous collaborations within the broader Cardano ecosystem have involved names like Deutsche Telekom, BMW, and Lufthansa. Serviceplan Group’s involvement as a major European communications and marketing agency group suggests that AI agent marketplaces might find early traction in the creative and professional services industries.
For investors watching the Cardano ecosystem, the metric to track is transaction volume on Sokosumi over the coming quarters and whether the enterprise partnerships announced alongside Masumi convert into measurable on-chain activity.