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Martin El-Khouri leads ecosystem and business development at peaq, focusing on building infrastructure for a machine economy.
He works on enabling robots, cars, and sensors with foundational services including identity, wallets, and credit systems.
1Interview
2026First on the show
Oct 2026Latest appearance
36 minOn camera
36:12
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In their own words
“The goal is to get into the billions of machines within the next years and be the de facto financial standard for the machine economy.”
Key points from the latest interview
- Peaq is building an omni-chain coordination layer providing machines with onchain identities, wallets, and access control to participate in autonomous economic activity.
- Machines require the same foundational infrastructure as humans—identity verification, payment systems, and credit history—to enable cross-system transactions and financing.
- Hardware-based moats are more defensible than software-only approaches, making the machine economy a natural fit for blockchain technology without requiring artificial product-market fit.
- Open standards and compatibility between different machine systems are essential for a machine economy with trillions of devices communicating and transacting autonomously.
- Physical collateral from hardware provides machines with underlying value for creditworthiness assessment, distinguishing them from purely digital AI agents.