Eric Charles (🔋, 🔋)

🎉 Mesh has closed a $75M Series C at $1B valuation. 🦄 This is more than a funding round–it’s the beginning of the end for legacy payments. For too long, global commerce has been stuck with systems that are slow, siloed, and expensive for both merchants and users. That era is ending. What we’ve built so far: ✅ A unified global network across wallets, chains, and assets ✅ Any-to-any payments via SmartFunding, with instant settlement in the merchant’s preferred currency We’re also rapidly expanding across LATAM, Asia, and Europe. Now we move into the next phase: building the universal payments network for a truly tokenized, borderless economy. Any asset. Any chain. Any geography. Thanks to our customers, partners, and investors, especially @dragonfly_xyz, @paradigm, @ModerneVentures, @cbventures, SBI Investment, and @LCVentures.

Mesh Connect secured a $1 billion valuation after a recent $75 million funding round bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tempo’s testnet is live! Any company can now build on a payments-first chain designed for instant settlement, predictable fees, and a stablecoin-native experience. Tempo has been shaped with a wide group of partners validating real workloads including @AnthropicAI, @Coupang, @DeutscheBank, @DoorDash, @Lead_Bank, @mercury, @nubank, @OpenAI, @Revolut, @Shopify, @StanChart, and @Visa. Since our announcement, @brexHQ, @Coastal, @crossriverbank, @deel, @faire_wholesale, @Figure, @GustoHQ , @Kalshi, @Klarna, @Mastercard, @Payoneer, @withpersona, @tryramp, and @UBS have also joined as design partners. Dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin gas, deterministic finality, a built-in stable asset DEX, and programmable smart accounts are all live on testnet. If you’re building or modernizing payment flows, you can start integrating and testing today.

When I moved to Las Vegas at 22, the dream for me and my friends was to one day play in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio - the highest stakes, the biggest legends, and the wildest swings. After a few years of hard work, I finally earned the chance to ante up in that fabled room alongside some of the game’s biggest legends. I had dreamt about that moment for years, back when I could only sneak a peek through the glass walls. As I started playing more tournaments and the stakes kept rising, one series gave me that same feeling as Bobby’s Room: @tritonpoker. Triton represents the highest stakes, the biggest legends, and the wildest swings. I’ve been fortunate enough to compete in their events around the world - and even luckier to win a coveted Triton trophy. These are the best-run, and highest stakes tournaments that exist in poker. Next month, Triton is hosting the $250,000 buy-in Triton Invitational in the Bahamas - and I’m incredibly excited and proud to announce that @YEET will be the title sponsor. More information to follow but I will be playing the $75k and $100k buy in Pot Limit Omaha tournaments prior to the Invitational.

🚨 Ep. 1 of Agentic Commerce: The ACP Protocol With Stripe @sytaylor & @bamazizimesh is joined by: ➡️ @jeff_weinstein, Product Lead @stripe ➡️ @stevekaliski, Principal Software Engineer @stripe To discuss: 🤖 The role of AI agents in the future economy 🔎 Moving from search-based discovery to AI-assisted execution 🌐 Stablecoins as a global, borderless payment method for agents 🚩 Managing payment failure modes in agentic commerce flows 🤔 How agents will change consumer shopping behavior 🕵 New business models and fraud patterns with AI agents 🪙 Token-based billing and usage for AI services 🥊 Open standards and competition in agentic payments *** Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 02:32 The role of AI agents in the future economy 05:00 Moving from search-based discovery to AI-assisted execution 10:00 Stablecoins as a global, borderless payment method for agents 15:00 Managing payment failure modes in agentic commerce flows 20:00 How agents will change consumer shopping behavior 25:00 New business models and fraud patterns with AI agents 30:00 Token-based billing and usage for AI services 35:00 Open standards and competition in agentic payments *** 👉𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 '𝘛𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵' 𝘖𝘯 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦. 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳! 👈