The Economy of Things | Peter Busch, Bosch

Bosch started exploring distributed ledger technology in 2015, before the retail wave, before the ICO boom, before most enterprises had even heard the term. In this episode, Peter Busch, Global Product Owner DLT at Bosch and Co-Founder of the Fetch.ai Foundation, walks through what it actually took to build the case for decentralized infrastructure inside one of the world's largest engineering companies, and where that journey has led.Topics covered: the Economy of Things and what it means in practice, autonomous vehicles authenticating to city infrastructure, why decentralized identity matters more than centralized alternatives, AI agents and the trust layer they require, data sovereignty as a competitive advantage in Europe, the Fetch ai Foundation, and why the combination of decentralized trust and AI agents is the defining technology architecture of this moment.Beyond Cosmoverse is the Executive Dialogue Series by Cosmoverse, the institutional digital asset summit. Hosted by Roberto Cassa, Marketing Director at Cosmoverse, each episode brings together practitioners from finance, regulation, and digital asset infrastructure. Learn more at cosmoverse.org.Timestamps:(00:00) Decentralized trust meets AI agents (00:40) Introduction (01:37) Peter's journey, from JP Morgan to Bosch (04:29) Why enterprises move slower than expected (07:56) The Economy of Things explained (13:15) Autonomous vehicles and machine identity (16:04) Beyond mobility, Bosch's broader portfolio (17:35) Do users actually care about trust? (21:52) The Fetch.ai Foundation and agent ecosystems (25:03) Sovereign AI and trusted agents (29:37) Trust architecture in 2026 (33:39) Web3 meets enterprise, the transformation (38:41) Advice for the younger generation (42:30) Closing