Stripe builds out the economic infrastructure for AI with 288 launches

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• New partnership with Google will allow businesses to sell inside AI Mode and the Gemini app

• Stripe launches wallets for agents, powered by Link, and support for new AI-native business models

• Major expansion to Stripe Treasury, including instant, free money transfers between businesses on Stripe

SAN FRANCISCO—Stripe today announced 288 new products and features at Stripe Sessions, its annual customer conference, as the company builds the economic infrastructure for AI. That means accelerating AI companies’ growth, helping enterprises adapt to AI, preventing fraudsters from stealing tokens, and empowering agents as economic actors.

“AI is the biggest platform shift for the economy since the internet, and in the not-too-distant future agents will account for most transactions online. The enterprises and startups behind this wave are overwhelmingly building on Stripe. No matter what sector you're in, the AI transformation requires new economic infrastructure, primitives, and abstractions. That's the animating theme behind the 288 products and features we announced today,” said Patrick Collison, CEO and cofounder of Stripe.

The Agentic Commerce Suite now supports Google

Last year, Stripe launched the Agentic Commerce Suite, a single integration that lets businesses sell their products inside AI apps. Kate Spade, Best Buy, and Coach are among the businesses already building with the Agentic Commerce Suite.

Today, Stripe announced a partnership with Google that will allow businesses to sell to consumers inside AI Mode and the Gemini app. Businesses like Quince, Fanatics, and JD Sports are coming soon. This follows similar partnership announcements with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta.

Stripe is also bringing the Agentic Commerce Suite to platforms, so businesses on Wix, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and more can easily sell to customers inside AI apps.

Stripe launches Link wallets for agents

Link is a consumer wallet with over 250 million users globally, and now it’s ready for agents too. Starting today, people can enable their agents to make payments with Link on their behalf. For example, with OpenClaw, your agent could monitor table availability at a popular restaurant and pay a deposit if needed. Your real payment details are never exposed to the agent—a one-time-use card is issued per task, and you approve each payment.

“If AI can solve Nobel level physics problems but can’t buy a domain, something’s gone wrong. Our mantra: empower agents. We’re excited for all the growth opportunities this will unlock for businesses,” said Will Gaybrick, Stripe's president of product and business.

Streaming payments for AI business models

In the last year, with dramatically heavier AI usage, a new problem has emerged for businesses that offer AI products: how to charge for tokens. Agents burn through tokens at machine speed, running up real costs for businesses before payment is collected.

The best approach would be a true pay-as-you-go model: collecting a payment from a customer for each token, as it’s used, in real time. But the amounts are too small and the usage is too fast—existing systems aren’t capable of processing minute sums every few milliseconds. For that, businesses would need both precise tracking (knowing instantly when and where tokens are used) and precise settlement (the ability to collect frequent micropayments).

To solve this, today Stripe introduced streaming payments, an AI-native business model, which combines precise tracking from Metronome with stablecoin micropayments on the Tempo blockchain. For the first time ever, businesses can get paid for every token, exactly at the moment it’s used. As tokens become increasingly fungible with money, streaming payments in real time is an important part of Stripe’s economic infrastructure for AI.

Stripe expands fraud protection to cover token theft

Fraudsters are no longer just stealing money—they're stealing tokens. They create millions of fake accounts to drain sign-up credits, burn inference costs by abusing free trials, and rack up usage bills they never intend to pay. Across AI services running on Stripe, one in six attempted sign-ups is made by a bad actor, and free trial abuse has more than doubled in the past six months.

Today, Stripe expanded Radar to defend against token theft. Radar now evaluates sign-ups and usage in real time, drawing on signals from across the Stripe network. For eight high-growth AI businesses, Radar blocked more than 3.3 million risky sign-ups in the last month alone.

Massive expansion of Stripe Treasury, with instant, free money transfers between US businesses on Stripe

There’s a new breed of business building on Stripe: lean hyperscalers, growing revenue faster than ever and with a global customer base from the start. Their feedback has been consistent: they don’t just want Stripe to handle the money coming into their business, but to serve as their entire financial stack.

Today, Stripe introduced the new Stripe Treasury: a global business account that allows companies to hold funds in 15 currencies and move money around the clock.

Businesses building on Stripe make payments to each other 4.8 million times a day. With Stripe Treasury, those transactions are now free and instant for US businesses.

In addition, businesses can now:

• Operate Treasury through AI services like ChatGPT

• Earn rewards on fiat and stablecoin balances

• Get 2% cashback on card payments

• Pay out to recipients in 100 countries with fiat, 160 with stablecoins

Stripe launches digital asset accounts, a new building block for global fintechs

Fintechs are adopting stablecoins to build global financial applications, but doing so has required crypto expertise across a fragmented set of integrations—fiat onramps and offramps, ways to earn yield, issuing cards, and more.

Today, Stripe and Privy announced digital asset accounts, which make it dramatically easier for any developer to quickly build a fintech application. With a single API, digital asset accounts provide the infrastructure a business needs to build financial products with stablecoins. Companies including Ramp, Deel, and Doordash are already building on top of digital asset accounts to expand globally.

Stripe Projects is now available to everyone, and includes new partners

Stripe Projects lets developers or their agents sign-up for, purchase, and integrate all the services they need to deploy products to the internet, directly from wherever they write (or prompt) code. It’s one of Stripe’s most highly anticipated products, with thousands of developers joining the waitlist in the first two days after the preview announcement last month.

As of today, Stripe Projects is available to all.

Stripe also announced 14 new partners for Stripe Projects, including Render, Twilio, Sentry, WorkOS, Browserbase, GitLab, and ElevenLabs. These partners join existing Projects partners for a total of 32 providers including Vercel, Clerk, Supabase, Hugging Face, and Cloudflare.

“Vibe coding is so 2025. The leading edge is now in vibe deploying, and Stripe Projects lets you do just that,” said John Collison, cofounder and president of Stripe. “It's one place to provision all the tools you need to launch your product.”

288 launches across the Stripe platform

Beyond the headline announcements, Stripe announced 288 products and features today at Stripe Sessions. To see the full list, visit the Stripe blog.