1/ Coding agents, like Claude Code and Codex, can now build working machine payment integrations on Stripe in one shot. With Stripe's Machine Payments SDK, developers can build APIs and services that AI agents pay for with stablecoins, one request at a time.

Dope role Love the specificity

I’ve found myself detouring back to onchain privacy from a few different angles over the last five years. Here's a few thoughts I wrote yesterday on what’s changed, what I've learned, and what it takes for technically interesting things to become useful :)

Today is probably a good time to check in on things with @privy_io, which became part of @stripe just over a year ago. Our acquisition was predicated on three factors: stablecoin growth, self-custody as a key enabler of broader global coverage, and rapidly increasing demand for programmable financial infrastructure. As we said at the time, "money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults." Since then, the Privy team has executed exceptionally well: assets in Privy wallets have grown ~25x, monthly active developers are up ~3x, revenue is up ~9x, and Privy now facilitates nearly $25B of monthly transaction volume. @tryramp, @Deel, @Klarna, @felixpago, @HyperliquidX, and thousands of other businesses are building embedded banking functionality on Privy. At Stripe, we're deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, @Link, and Connect. In each case, it's accelerating our global expansion, and enabling us to build better functionality faster. (Coming soon: @Link balances.) We're also seeing that Privy's wallet infrastructure is the ideal substrate for agents to transact and earn -- live today with @merit_systems, @orthogonal_sh, @Nevermined_ai, @prlnet, and more. Developers prefer programmable financial infrastructure, but agents need it. We expect that the agentic economy will continue to grow extremely quickly. The Privy team has maintained remarkable product velocity, with major launches this year including deposit addresses, earning on Privy balances, digital asset accounts, custodial wallets, and Stripe's own stablecoin cards. It's also been neat to see how Privy has been accelerated by Stripe, with better onramps, @stablecoin payment rails and licenses, Stripe's fiat capabilities and issuing stack, and integration with @Tempo. Together, we're building one API for holding stablecoin balances and earning yield, moving money in and out of fiat, and orchestrating spend with cards. We still have a lot of work to do, not least in integrating everything across Privy, Bridge, and the rest of Stripe -- there's been so much feature and functionality expansion that we haven't yet had much time to reconcile everything. Overall, though, I'm very happy with how things are going, and excited by where these capabilities are headed. If you're interested in working on the future of stablecoins, agentic payments, and crypto's deployment in the real world, you should get in touch with @sternhenri (now leading all of @StripeCrypto) or others on the team.

We're bringing together Stripe's fiat and crypto infrastructure to make it easier for businesses to build stablecoin-backed cards that work across currencies and markets. More on what we're building with @Plasma,

Apple Home event invites just dropped. October 13

Stripe Sessions is looking for speakers for its dedicated crypto track next year. If you’re building with stablecoins or crypto, we want to hear what you’ve learned: what worked, what didn’t, and what you’re building next. Submit your proposal by Nov 6: cfp.stripesessions.com/flow/…

Debbie Soon (@debsoon) of Privy (@privy_io) describes custody as having technical, regulatory and commercial dimensions: who controls the keys, how that control is interpreted legally, and how much risk a business is willing to take. She said Privy lets customers configure custody by geography. Watch the full fireside featuring: Coral Taylor of Stripe (@stripe) and Steve Vallas of Blockchain APAC.

Glider spotted on stage with @jessepollak at TOKEN2049 Singapore 🇸🇬 @Bitwise x Glider ATPs are only getting started.

1/ @stripe Treasury now uses OUSD on @tempo as the default stablecoin asset for US businesses, making it easier to hold and move money across fiat and crypto. Businesses can convert between OUSD and USD, EUR, or GBP without leaving Stripe.