Group chats for agents are going to be super useful, since (ideally) I'm not going to all of these things I'm booking alone... And, if my agent already has a wallet, then I should be able to send funds peer-to-peer Please never make me manually split group expenses again lol

Of course I immediately had Muse attempt to make some difficult restaurant reservations And makes me feel a lot better that there is a native OpenTable integration and follows their TOS

I went to Grokbot meetup in NYC, and it was fun and well run! (Apparently was planned in just 4 days?!) - The little cards with real prompts and use cases were great - They gave everyone $100 in credits to try - Wish I got to talk to more people about what they're using theirs for

I've spent $700 through Instinct in the last week, but gave it account info (that I can change) instead of my card info But now, I can give it my Link wallet where I already have my cards saved and pay without having to pass my card number around! (I think I have an invite left if anyone wants to try Instinct. DM me - curious what you would have your agent do for you)

I recently bought a new domain ( and tried to point it to a Github repo of MPP sample code But it didn't work bc the .new domain forwarding behaved differently I gave my agent a screenshot of the domain registry error and told it to to provision whatever it needed to fix it via Stripe Projects. It ended up choosing @vercel to deploy the redirect, and it worked!

A few years back, I was initially skeptical of how an agent would be helpful when shopping for me But with autonomous agents, I've been able to: - "Schedule buy" a Gap x Malbon collab when it dropped while I was in meetings - Snagged Hyperice when a sale item was back in stock

Inside @Stripe's MPP IRL: machine payments, stablecoins, and the future of agent commerce. Agents are starting to pay for things on their own: API calls, services, each other. Nobody's agreed on how that should work. This panel was three takes on it. @BackseatVC (Stripe) leads product for Machine Payments — the open standard for how agents pay for things. @dwr (@tempo) is building stablecoin payment rails, and thinks that's what agent commerce runs on, not cards. @blauyourmind (Royal) magician turned @a16z Crypto partner turned CTO is exploring programmable money for creators, and why the demand side is barely here yet. We got into: • Why HTTP 402, a status code from the early web, is suddenly the backbone of agent payments • Why Dan thinks a credit card is a private key and why stablecoins are safer for agents • Where stablecoins actually win first • Whether you should build for agent payments now or wait • Why the demand side is "virtually nonexistent" and what that means if you're building 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Event Kickoff JEN LEE — Product Lead, Stripe (00:44) What the Machine Payments Protocol Is (01:28) How MPP Works — the HTTP 402 Payment Challenge (03:25) Adoption So Far: ~30,000 Transactions (04:04) Building Trust — Shared Tokens & the Link Agent Wallet (05:56) What the Creator Economy Looks Like When the Audience Is Agents (07:15) What She Was Certain About at 22 That's Now Wrong DAN ROMERO — GTM, Tempo (08:34) Meet Dan (08:49) Why Stablecoins, and the Genius Act Tailwind (09:48) "A Credit Card Is Basically a Private Key" (11:19) Should Every Company Be Thinking About MPP? (13:03) What to Be Wary Of (15:15) Where Stablecoins Win — Payouts, Remittances, DoorDash MICHAEL BLAU — CTO, Royal (16:36) Meet Michael (17:13) From Magician to a16z Crypto to CTO (17:57) Team Over Idea — His a16z Takeaway (18:26) "The Demand Side Is Virtually Nonexistent" (19:03) Closing

Been lucky to have crossed paths with @alexatallah in crypto days, and super excited to work with the OpenRouter team! Thought this quote from Patrick summarized things well: "Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI, and together with OpenRouter we’ll help businesses maximize profitability by routing their requests intelligently and spending their tokens efficiently."

1/ Stripe has signed an agreement to acquire OpenRouter. OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same name, same product, same roadmap, same mission. But now, we will do it faster, and with Stripe's unparalleled excellence and reach.