Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss

@patrickc @stripe Shipping season!

We just announced a large raft of improvements at @Stripe Sessions. My meta reflections: • It feels that the entire economy is replatforming right now. • Many charts at Stripe are inflecting in quite dramatic ways. What GitHub recently reported for commits we are seeing in economic activity (such as new company formations). • It is increasingly clear that agents will be responsible for most transactions in the not overly distant future. • Stripe was always developer-centric, but AI is making developer-centricity strategic in a new way: agents are even hungrier for good DX than developers themselves are. • Things that we’re launching are increasingly network products at heart. (Instant transfers between Stripe businesses, new kinds of fraud prevention with Stripe Radar, stablecoin payouts to anyone with Link.) "How can we turn Stripe's economies of scale into user benefits?" is increasingly the relevant question. • Between Privy, Bridge, Tempo, and Stripe’s core capabilities, we’re now doing a lot in stablecoins/crypto, and companies like DoorDash, Ramp, Meta, and Klarna are using our crypto stack to deploy meaningful new functionality in production. “But where’s the production use?” is rapidly becoming stale when applied to crypto. • After more than a decade of building, we seem to have hit some kind of critical mass of core platform capabilities such that building new things now feels easier and faster than before. (AI also helps.) We announced Stripe Treasury last year (originally called Financial Accounts); since then, we’ve added multi-currency support, global payouts, card issuance and rewards, and a bunch of other sophisticated functionality. By the end of this year, Treasury will support 15 more currencies and be available to businesses in 160 countries. On the launches themselves, a small selection that I thought were cool, though this is really just a subset: • The @Link AI wallet. Point your agent to github.com/stripe/link-cli and ask it to make purchases on your behalf with secure single-use tokens. (To test it, I asked Claude Code to buy a small gift for me yesterday. It purchased HTTPZine on Gumroad.) • New payment methods for Link, including Pix (largest payment method in Brazil) and UPI (largest payment method in India). We’re also adding stablecoin support to Link (which I think will be huge if we execute well). • We’re adding a lot of new Machine Payments Protocol functionality, including micropayment and recurring payment support. • We announced Checkout studio: a sophisticated dashboard for managing your checkout flow, including things like transaction replays and A/B tests. Today this tends to require a lot of fussy edits to production code. • Adaptive Pricing (which automatically localizes the price and currency that customers see) now supports subscriptions. We’ve seen pretty huge (4–5%) conversion rate improvements after enabling it — customers really like paying in their home currency. • New Stripe Terminal reader (the T600) with a customer-facing screen that can run native apps, plus support for 15 new international markets for Stripe Terminal. • General availability for Stripe Managed Payments, our merchant of record solution. (Natively handles tax, disputes, fraud.) Maybe sounds a bit arcane, but it’s one of those iykyk products. It saves a lot of schlep. • Fraud is a *much* bigger priority for customers than it was 2 years ago (AI makes fraud easier + unlike software, tokens can be resold), so we’ve been extending Stripe Radar to support things beyond payments fraud: free trial abuse, multi-account abuse, pay-as-you-go abuse. Early results are extremely positive. We also announced Stripe Signals — new scoring APIs for customers, businesses, and other objects, not just payments on and off Stripe. • Usage-based billing is also becoming the de facto business model of the AI era, and we launched a bunch of new pricing models in @getMetronome and features like low-balance alerts, automatic credit top-ups, and multidimensional pricing structures. • We showed streaming payments built on @Tempo and Metronome — track usage and get paid the instant value is delivered. Hard to predict, but I think this could be big. (Why wouldn’t you want to get paid as costs are incurred?) • We added automatic US tax filing in Stripe Tax. • We announced Stripe Database -- a hosted PostgreSQL database with all of your Stripe data, updated in real time. Read-only to start but we’ll make it read-write. • Stripe Workflows are now GA. • We showed Stripe Console, a full agentic execution environment built directly into the Stripe Dashboard. It’ll happily write code and use tools to answer your questions. • We previewed custom objects: model your business data directly in Stripe, with custom objects, typed fields, and relationships. • As mentioned above, Stripe Treasury accounts will support storage in 15 currencies by the end of the year. And instant/free(!) transfers between US Stripe businesses. • You can use a Stripe card with your Treasury balance and get 2% cash back on purchases. • We’re massively expanding our Global Payouts coverage -- soon 100 countries with fiat rails and 160 with stablecoins. • Atlas companies can now raise money directly within Stripe. • We launched the platform growth studio, which uses Stripe’s network data to generate specific recommendations for optimization/growth. • We announced the Stripe Managed Risk API — platforms can outsource risk handling to Stripe while maintaining full UI/UX control. • Connected accounts now benefit from networked onboarding, which hugely increases conversion rates. • We’re launching Treasury for Platforms. Connected accounts can get spend cards with just a few lines of code. (Plus cash rewards, cash acceptance, check acceptance, real-time payments…) • We announced Issuing for agents: easily create cards for agents. But that’s really just a subset of a subset. (See stripe.com/roadmap for more.) The Stripe team is cooking! And if you’re interested in building the economic infrastructure for this new world, we’re hiring.

@steipete @OpenAI @openclaw Congrats Peter!

I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞 steipete.me/posts/2026/ope…

@itsalfredw Huge!! #proudbrother

Today, Listen crossed $100M in funding. Building is easy now. Knowing what to build isn't. Our AI finds and talks to your users so you don't have to guess. See how Sweetgreen, Microsoft, and Replit use it:

@thilokonzok Very cool

uncommon is finally 70% as good as me at designing websites. i expect it to be better than me in <9 months. try it here: unc.mn/website you drop your existing website. it understands your company, designs a brand and builds your website.

Brussels! Time to simplify things for our hungry entrepreneurs! @euinc_petition is such a clear and necessary step that it’s hard to believe it’s still up for debate. Huge thanks to Andreas Klinger and team for leading the charge — let’s get this across the finish line! With EU–INC we could finally have: ✅ One pan-European legal entity ✅ A single digital-first EU registry ✅ Standardised investment docs & stock options ✅ Simple rules for local taxes & jobs 👉 You can help by filling out the EU consultation before Sept 30 eu-inc.org/cta cc @vonderleyen @bundeskanzler @EmmanuelMacron #EUINC

Finally a way to deterministically get into Berghain 🧑‍💻

Incredible progress @antonosika and team. Keep it up! #proudinvestor

@antonosika Boom. Congrats!!

Lovable just raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation led by Accel. This all started unexpectedly with me calling my friend at 6AM to go for a walk. I've never shared this story before: (thread)

@christianreber @Interface That’s one hell of a portfolio! Congrats

First @Interface fund deployed. Thank you to our portfolio companies. 😘

Fun conversation with my friend @kirschenroman on his brand new podcast Icons! We chatted about @SoundCloud, @ridewithdance, growth and a bunch of other topics. Have a listen: youtube.com/watch?v=4DObkI… #Icons #Podcast #SoundCloud #Dance

@olivercameron @odysseyml This is wild. Magic! Congrats on the launch

Introducing interactive video from @odysseyml—video you can watch and interact with, imagined by AI in real-time. Give it a try for free today on (almost) any device, and let us know what you think. We think it's pretty cool!

SoundCloud has always been and will remain artist-first. We don’t use artist content to train AI. We don’t allow scraping. We’ve even added a “no AI” tag to block unauthorized use. Any future AI tools will be built for artists to enhance discovery, protect rights, and expand opportunities. We hear your concerns and remain committed to transparency, artist control, and fair use.

@loki_robotics So cool!

Cleaning just got a looooooot easier! Here’s a day in the life of one of our Loki’s deployed in a commercial office space. By exploiting the problem structure and environment consistency, we combine autonomy with remote teleoperation to perform cleaning and day-to-day maintenance tasks reliably.

AI writes your code. Now it talks to your users. We raised $27M from @Sequoia to build @ListenLabs. Listen runs thousands of interviews to uncover what users want, why they churn, and what makes them convert. See how @Microsoft and @canva use it:

I remember coding with my brother @itsalfredw when he was nine. Now he’s launching @ListenLabs from SF and just raised $27M from @sequoia. That’s wild. I’m so proud and excited about this. Go Alfred!! 🚀🚀🚀 #proudbrother

@andreasklinger 100%

English should be Europe’s official primary default language. We should call it “European” Recognize both UK & US spelling as correct grammar, and all European accents as perfect pronunciation. English (European), EN_eu

A great evening it was! So much fun celebrating five years of @ridewithdance with our investors, friends and supporters in Berlin this week. Here’s to the next five! ⚡🚲🚀 #5YearsOfDance #TheLivableCity #YourCityYourRhythm

We now have the funding, the team, and the market potential to pursue our vision of accelerating livable cities. Here's to our next chapter—Your City. Your Rhythm. ⚡🚲🚀 #5YearsOfDance #TheLivableCity #YourCityYourRhythm

A heartfelt thank you to our members, our incredible team, our investors, and our partners - your passion, deep dedication, and belief in our mission have made this journey possible. With Christian at the helm, I feel great about the future of Dance.

Five years ago, we set out with @ridewithdance on a mission to transform the way people move through cities - making urban mobility seamless, sustainable, and enjoyable. What started as a vision has grown into a movement... 🧵