Dan Romero

I can finally give my parents a use case for crypto that doesn’t require a college seminar. Better, faster, cheaper payments with stablecoins on Tempo.

I paid for several premium financial newsletters and built a chat interface on top of them. Writers get paid each time their posts are used in an answer via @mpp on @tempo and x402 on @base. Check it out: dripstack.xyz

At Stripe Sessions, we showed how we think agentic commerce will often happen behind the scenes in the course of producing other final products. Here, we show our Claude Code using MPP and @tempo to buy a dataset from @alpha_vantage in the process of generating a research report for me on AI energy usage.

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Fun time talking agentic payments with @coinbase alum @dwr yesterday at @stripe Sessions. Recapping a few takeaways: 1) Cards and stablecoins can and will co-exist. Stablecoins aren’t a replacement, they’re an expansion. The world has a whole new category of buyers (Agents) who will outnumber humans and drive the internet economy. They will create net-new payment flows (e.g., machine to machine payments, streaming payments) that cards were never really built for — stablecoins are always on, programmable money that are natively designed for these new types of payments. Cards will continue to thrive (and accelerate) with agents driving traditional payment flows. 2) Intents are the new interface. The internet we know is built around a common flow: browse, select, checkout. Going forward, this will be collapsed into an intent (e.g., book me travel) — an figures out the rest. We’re going from visual marketplaces for humans to programmable marketplaces for agents. How humans interact with the interact will fundamentally change. 3) Agents transact differently than humans. Agents don’t have identity like humans do. Agents transact at machine speed and machine scale. Agents are rational and ruthless optimizers (e.g., brand loyalty isn’t a consideration). Agents will optimize across payment rails, choosing the best method for each use-case. Stablecoins are well suited for granular machine-scale payments and programmable transactions. 4) It’s early days. The infrastructure exists, but it’s still early. Agents need more robust standards for identity and authorization, broader acceptance, and trust and safety tooling. It’s early, but watch this space — you won’t want to miss out on the billions of new customers (agents) that are looking to access services on the web.

Good demo of MPP and Tempo

A Plantagenet spin-off would slap

Pay per token with MPP and Tempo

in case anyone wanted to see all the tempo and mpp mentions from stripe sessions yesterday i put them together in a ultra compact clip videogrep 'tempo|mpp' sessions_day1.mp4

pretty incredible to see @patrickc casually mentioning to @sama the agentic infra we built in January for @tempo and @paradigm to transform how we work. we indeed use this to orchestrate pretty much anything at both companies. neither paradigm nor tempo can live without this now. it feels like the stone age without it. and because our organizations are so workflow heavy / data rich and we are <100 people, these are the perfect organizations to max deploy ai. it is natively multiplayer, harness agnostic, has secure secret management & firewalls, durable workflows, observable so it can self-improve/heal and most importantly - all self-hosted on bare metal & self-built, end to end. no third parties involved. we have two deploys, one for each company on different machines, but they both have a shared core codebase that's modular and extensible for each company's idiosyncracies. we're looking to do way more things with it. proactive agents remains an open problem for us. we hope to open source it very soon as i've mentioned a few times before. we're adding 1 special eng to that team, dm me + your proof of work if you're epic at infrastructure / security and love hacking things quickly.

Pretty cool example of crypto going mainstream: Meta is launching creator stablecoin payouts, built on @tempo and @link. Live in Colombia and Philippines; 160+ countries coming soon.

@0xprames @yb_effect @0xAishwary It’s right there in the tweet, lol

@dwr @yb_effect no mention of tempo in that pic (??) i see polygon tho h/t @0xAishwary

Meta launched stablecoin creator payouts in the Philippines and Colombia today. > Surprised that they're partnered with Stripe but not using Tempo > This onboarding experience feels outdated. Is there a regulatory reason they're not using embedded wallets or newer infra?

Announced today: @Meta is adding support for stablecoin payouts to creators via @Link wallets, powered by @Stripe and settled on Tempo. Rolling out in Colombia and the Philippines, expanding to 160+ markets.

Creator payouts are one of the killer use cases for stablecoins Excited for @tempo to be working with Stripe and Meta to payout to shiny @link wallets

We’re partnering with @Meta and @tempo so creators can receive stablecoins in their @link wallets.

Really excited for Tempo to be powering the Link wallet stablecoin payouts.

@matbalez @brendan_j_ryan

@dwr is it possible for the link agent wallet to pay MPP endpoints that accept stablecoins (like USDC) over tempo? e.g. how can my agent pay this with link: fal.mpp.tempo.xyz/xai/grok-imagi…

250 million consumer wallets that work out of the box with MPP and Tempo! And the best part is regular people can use it without any complicated crypto UX.

Pay per token

@ShanAggarwal @stripe 💪

Excited to talk about stablecoins and agentic commerce with @dwr today at @stripe Sessions 👇

Last year, stablecoins over $33 trillion in transactions. 2026 is on pace to blow past that number. Stablecoin transactions volume was over $25 trillion in the past 3 months alone.