Reading up on payments

Stripe's Link wallet for agents gives AI agents programmatic access to one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens, backed by user credentials, with human approval required for each spend.

Stripe announced 288 new products and features at Sessions 2026, focusing on programmable payments, AI economic infrastructure, fraud prevention, and global money management.

Stripe's Link CLI lets AI agents generate one-time-use virtual cards or shared payment tokens for purchases, with user approval required and real card details never exposed.

ClawCard gives AI agents isolated identities with email, phone, virtual cards, and spend controls, enabling autonomous payments without sharing human credentials.

Agentic commerce will shift from retail payment rails to pre-negotiated B2B credit and stablecoins, as agents behave like local businesses with long-term vendor relationships.

Stripe ships purl, a curl-like CLI that lets users pay for HTTP requests using USDC via built-in wallet management.