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@browserbase 🤝

Browserbase supports the new Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) from @stripe, Your agents can now pay per search/browser using the following endpoints.

Parallel is built for a world where agents are the primary users of the web. Agents can now autonomously pay per API call for web access via Parallel using MPP. parallelmpp.dev

@tempo @mpp 🤝

Agent payments will soon overtake human payments on the internet. The Machine Payments Protocol (@mpp) is a new open standard co-authored by @stripe and @tempo. It’s designed to be extensible and payment-method agnostic, already supporting stablecoins, cards, and more.

Tempo Mainnet is live! Starting today, anyone can build on Tempo through our public RPC endpoints. Alongside mainnet, we’re introducing the Machine Payments Protocol, an open standard for machine payments.

Prediction markets are one of the most hotly-discussed new technologies of the past few years. @mansourtarek_ and @luanalopeslara, founders of @kalshi, joined @matthuang and me in the Cheeky Pint pub. We discussed their landmark lawsuit against the CFTC, how market making works on Kalshi, and where prediction markets go from here.

Everyone’s talking about the K-shaped economy—the rich pulling away while everyone else stagnates. In our inaugural Stripe Economics post, I take a look at @stripe + macro data, and I see the K on Wall Street, but not yet on Main Street: • The most profitable third of US public companies now account for ~2/3 of total market cap—the highest on record. • The S&P 500 rose 16.5% in 2025, and the top 1% own ~40% of all equities. So unsurprisingly the top 1% wealth share has risen (~2pp) since 2022. • BUT, Stripe data suggest lower-income household spending has been growing faster than high-income households over the last few years. • Wages tell a similar story: real earnings at the 10th percentile grew ~0.5pp slower than the 90th since 2022, but BOTH posted positive real wage growth. • Why? 1) The wealthy hold lots of equities but only account for ~25% of consumer spending. 2) Real wages at the bottom have been supported by continued labor market tightness post-pandemic, though this may cool. Read the full post below and subscribe! stripeeconomics.substack.com/p/k-shaped-eco…

1/ Earn on balances with Privy. Connect app balances to curated DeFi vaults and expand revenue opportunities with just a few API calls. Powered by vault infrastructure with @Morpho, with risk strategies from @steakhousefi and @gauntlet_xyz. Support for @aave and @kamino 🔜

Paper just helped @stripe explore visuals for their annual letter launch. We used image tools, filters, and the new Halftone CMYK shader. Stripe is how Paper is available around the world. Glad we could bring this story to life for them.

Love seeing @stripe's 2025 annual letter drop! We gave it to Manus. 13 pages of dense, thoughtful writing turned into visual infographics in minutes: - Read the whole thing, not just the highlights - Spotted themes and signals across the full letter - Matched Stripe's brand colors automatically - Turned it all into visuals ready to share The infographics Manus made from the letter 👇

.@btaylor is a Silicon Valley legend and currently runs Sierra, which helps companies deploy AI starting with customer service. I was eager to figure out with him how AI productivity will actually be realised: how organisations will roll out the changes, which roles benefit most, and how to keep up with model advances.

Optimising payments is one of the highest-return activities a business can undertake. 5 million businesses (directly or via platforms) are already escaping low-revenue mode with Stripe. Recognising this fact, Stripe was just named a leader in the Forrester Wave for Merchant Payment Providers.

This episode of Cheeky Pint covered a super interesting new domain for me: the technologies that have rapidly become critical for police work in the US. @glangley of @Flock_Safety describes how they are helping clear over one million cases each year, how the balance of power between criminals and police is evolving, why crime spiked during the pandemic, how police departments are using and fighting drones, and much more.

We're hosting Stripe Commons, a global forum for open finance, with @stablecoin and @privy_io on March 18 in Mexico City. If you're a founder or operator building products on open financial rails, apply to join us: luma.com/stripecommonsc….

"Fiat v crypto" is less interesting than "fiat x crypto". We're expanding our work with @Visa to enable card issuance in more than 100 countries: fortune.com/2026/03/03/vis…. These cards will be backed by stablecoin balances, enabling efficient and integrated global coverage.

Stripe's first engineer, @OpenAI's @gdb, will join @patrickc for a fireside chat at Stripe Sessions on April 29. Register: stripesessions.com.

We're honored to be named alongside ChatGPT, Cursor, and Midjourney in @stripe's annual letter. And, of course, like all documents we read, we had to take it for a spin on Gamma.

Can AI agents build real Stripe integrations? We built a benchmark to find out: stripe.com/blog/can-ai-ag….

Today, we're expanding access to billing for LLM tokens. Pick your models, set your markup, and route calls through @stripe’s LLM proxy (or supported partners). We sync popular model prices, configure advanced usage-based billing for your margin, and record usage automatically.