Stripe

Agentic payment infrastructure moved from concept to shipping product at Sessions 2026, with new primitives for AI-initiated transactions.

Agents can now pay. Link's wallet for agents lets AI agents generate one-time-use cards or Shared Payment Tokens backed by existing Link wallets.¹ The Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), co-authored with Tempo, is an open standard for agent-initiated payments usable via the PaymentIntents API.² Both agentic network tokens and BNPL tokens are reachable through Issuing for agents as a single primitive.³

The Dahlia API version expanded payment methods and embedded components.

• Sunbit (buy now, pay later) and Pix recurring payments joined the supported set⁴
• Managed Payments added a merchant-of-record solution
• Phantom Cash and USDT extended stablecoin support
• Balance report and payout reconciliation components arrived in the AccountSession embedded API⁵
• Issuing gained a card-presence spending control

Radar gained a free-trial abuse detector. One-click opt-in predicts repeated trial signups and missed cancellations at 90% accuracy.⁶ Adaptive Pricing for subscriptions — previously one-time checkout only — showed 4.7% higher conversion and 5.4% higher LTV per session across 1.5 million A/B test checkouts in 150+ countries.⁷

Private-preview SDK builds expanded the v2 resource surface. Gift card as a payment method type, PaymentLocation CRUD, EventNotificationHandler, DebitDispute, FeeBatch, and FinancialAccountStatement resources landed across Node and Python alpha builds.⁸ Node v22.1.1 fixed a multipart file upload regression and exported Stripe.Decimal as a namespaced type.⁹

CLI v1.41 added developer ergonomics. stripe preview get|post|delete provides a generic HTTP command factory.¹⁰ Plugin hint output to stderr, keychain retry on macOS, and Claude Code plugin discoverability also shipped.¹¹