Will travel for gelato, @StripeAustralia 👨🏻💻 in 🇦🇺.
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There’s been a lot of good conversation this week about agentic commerce. @link is now working with almost 400 agents, and I (👋 Dan here, product on Link) wanted to share a few more details about our approach:
1. Link is optimizing for the best experience for consumers, agents, and businesses: consumers want both convenience and guardrails, agents want to buy from any business with high conversion, and businesses want to understand how to best serve their customers that are using an agent.
2. That’s why Link supports a broad range of payment options: virtual cards (which were a pragmatic way to get started), Stripe native options (for checking out on a Stripe or Link enabled business more efficiently), a balance, and, yes, agentic tokens from Visa, Mastercard, and Amex. Across the many payment types, our goal is to automatically optimize for the best payment choice for each transaction given the consumer, the merchant, the country, etc.
3. Stripe has been building agentic tokens for almost a year with the networks: we were a launch partner, and agentic tokens have been live in the Link agent wallet for the last month, shortly after the Muse launch. We’re working closely with our network partners to improve the experience of using card tokens and grow their usage.
4. Outside the US, cards are less ubiquitous and there’s 100+ other popular ways to pay: Link is already available in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore and we have dozens more geos coming this year. We’re working to add non-card payment methods to power agentic commerce worldwide. More to come here.
This space is still very, very early! Thanks to all the early Link users who’ve been first adopters of agentic commerce and given us product ideas and feedback (keep them coming!). We read all of it and improve the product multiple times per day. It’s an exciting time to build (if you want to work on these problems fft dm me).
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By the way, in case anyone was still wondering whether they are completely useless, Binance holds SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, and several other certifications.
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We have presents for you! 🎁
- A new WebMCP Skill with best practices for security, development, & consequential flows
- WebMCP Types: TypeScript definitions, with type inference from InputSchema
Give em to your agent, it helps scaffold out WebMCP so fresh and so clean clean
ALT A sheet that talks about three tools for webmcp: the extension, webmcp types, and webmcp-skills
The prologue felt like an expansion of the “Mankind was my business.” of a Marley that was reformed and still around to do something about it.
📚Nomad Letters by @stripepress
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Newest addition to our turpentine collection is one that we've been asked about for years: a guide to building a robust sales organization.
Built to Grow, by the inimitable @she_travels, available for preorder now, & out October 13th in all formats: amazon.com/dp/195395362X
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Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. ordinaryabundance.com/
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Finally got my samples. This is the TX-24 Houston Mono ™ Typeface Specimens by @usgraphics. Printed via SpectraEtch, using archival-grade materials formulated for extended longevity and color stability. Printed in U.S.A., displayed in Ankara, TUR.
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720 second highlight reel of @stripe sessions keynote (a 87% time savings)
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Photographer @mostafabassim1 photographed this boy walking home alone with a snack being "randomly" approached by DHS. "After he was unable to produce documentation proving his citizenship, agents informed him that he was under arrest." He said, "Can I just go home?" Answer: No.
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1/ Today @stripepress publishes one of my favorite books to date: Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by @stewartbrand, about the unglamorous yet civilizationally important work of maintenance and repair.
press.stripe.com/maintenance…
Out now: press.stripe.com/maintenance…
@stewartbrand's Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One—about the continuous repair work that keeps complex systems intact, spanning stories from a round-the-world sailboat race, to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, to the Model T’s rise.
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I'm very excited that we now have results from an almost two-year randomized controlled trial that we ran across thousands of businesses on Stripe: those that accepted a loan from @Stripe Capital grew annual revenue around 27% faster.
(Two years isn't that long in the scheme of things, but it is when you're waiting for the results of an experiment you're interested in.)
We had two kinds of controls: businesses to whom we offered loans but didn't accept them, and a holdout group of businesses to whom we randomly did not offer loans but which were otherwise identical to those to which we did. As such, we feel confident in the causal nature of this conclusion.
While this might not sound like news ("capital increases growth"), I think the finding is a good reminder that many businesses are still quite capital-starved (this effect is on top of all of the other sources of capital that businesses have access to), and it is consistent with what we hear directly from businesses in surveys. Beyond Stripe, inefficient capital allocation at economy-wide scale is likely a major bottleneck to growth around the world.
We have an ambitious roadmap planned and we're very much looking forward to expanding worldwide access to growth capital.
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🔥 Today we’re excited to announce new funding for `grep` (at a $1.3B valuation) to continue building the foundation of agent observability and text search infrastructure.
grep began as a humble UNIX utility in 1973. Since then, it’s evolved—through recursive innovation and the rise of ripgrep—into a core platform for developers, sysadmins, and agents. Our tools now power engineering and AI teams across @OpenAI, @Anthropic, @Meta, @Cloudflare, @Replit, @NASA, and thousands more.
Over the decades we’ve iterated from grep to `egrep` to `ripgrep`. Our goal has always been to figure out what intelligent agents of the future need to see, filter, and extract—and then build the tools that make that possible.
While our journey is still just beginning, we also want to take a moment to reflect on how the space (and our role in it) has evolved. You can read our reflections and details on this funding milestone here:
gnu.org/software/grep/grep.h…
We also share more about the funding that will power our future there. Thank you to @IVP, @Benchmark, @Sequoia, @CapitalG, and the open-source community for their belief in the enduring power of regex.
What excites us most today is what’s next:
grep 5.0 with AI-assisted pattern synthesis
ripgrep Cloud, bringing distributed search to agent clusters
pgrepGPT, an agent-native process discovery layer
And new no-code integrations for autonomous observability pipelines
We’re in the midst of a transformation in computation itself. grep and ripgrep will remain at the core—helping humans and agents alike find what matters, faster.