Jen
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Jen
@BackseatVC
product @stripe crypto, leading stablecoin payments and financial accounts. also, @justinkan's youtube/tiktok


Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP). mpp.dev: an open protocol for machine-to-machine payments, co-authored by @tempo and @stripe. Watch it in agentic action ⤵️


Demo time! 🤖💸🎉 Here's @stevekaliski, @BackseatVC, and their agent (with a wallet) throwing together an actual birthday party. To accomplish this fun task, the agent autonomously researches, requests, and pays multiple businesses on Stripe via MPP. Note: No hands on keyboard





Demo time! 🤖💸🎉 Here's @stevekaliski, @BackseatVC, and their agent (with a wallet) throwing together an actual birthday party. To accomplish this fun task, the agent autonomously researches, requests, and pays multiple businesses on Stripe via MPP. Note: No hands on keyboard


Autonomous agents are quietly becoming the internet’s most powerful economic actors. Stripe’s Steve Kaliski explains how machine payments and stablecoins will fundamentally rewrite who captures value in commerce. (0:00) Are Agents Already Economic Actors? (3:48) How Does Stripe Automate Its Engineers? (5:18) Live Demo: Stripe Minion Updating Docs (8:28) What Is the Agentic Commerce Protocol? (11:28) How Do Shared Payment Tokens Actually Work? (19:14) Will Agents Have Their Own Web Standards? (25:02) Why Build Machine Payments on Stablecoins? (28:40) Will AI Agents Need Chargebacks and Refunds? (31:02) How Do Ephemeral Agents Pay for APIs? (33:48) Live Demo: Paying APIs with Stablecoins (39:31) Will AI Agents Negotiate While We Sleep? (41:15) Did the Autonomous Minion Finish the Code? (41:57) Does Kaliski Even Write Code Anymore? (44:07) Does AI Make Us Faster or Just Busier?




We just published Stripe's 2025 annual letter: stripe.com/annual-updates….

1/ Every Friday, we ship to make building on Privy better. Today: we’re showing how Privy wallets + x402 + @stripe machine payments unlock agentic commerce with any Stripe merchant. Watch the demo walkthrough and try the starter repo. Here's how ⤵️



I asked my clawdbot to send a letter to me in the mail… and it actually did it. I gave it a crypto wallet and some USDC to make purchases with, and clawdbot went and read the agent documentation on @postalform. It figured out how to draft an order with a PDF of the letter it wrote to me – then it used Stripe’s Purl cli and paid for the order using @stripe's new Machine Payments protocol. This is a huge step forward for real-world agentic task completion and commerce

.@sponge_wallet is the easiest way for agents to hold and spend money, and for businesses to sell directly to them. Built by the team behind Stripe's stablecoin financial accounts, stablecoin payments and core money movement systems, Sponge brings deep experience in building financial systems for the new economic actor: agents Congratulations on the launch @sfspacesquid, @ericzhang98, @jaekyongchoi! ycombinator.com/launches/PTD-s…

1/ Custodial wallets are live in Privy. Built to serve global businesses that desire a licensed custodian partner, clearer recovery paths, and institutional controls. After powering 120M+ wallets & $9B+ in monthly volume, we know custody must adapt to real-world requirements.



Autonomous agents are an entirely new category of users to build for, and, increasingly, to sell to. Today, we’re launching (a preview) of machine payments on @stripe—a way for developers to directly charge agents, with a few lines of code. 🤖💸 $ Let’s start tinkering… ⤵️


