Stripe Changelog

Stripe highlights four trends from HITEC 2026: the shift from SEO to AI-driven booking discovery, fragmented data limiting hospitality AI, measurable revenue costs of payments friction, and rising guest intolerance for broken technology.

Analysis of 250 million Link customers found the top 10% of AI spenders increased monthly outlay from $183 to $359 between December 2025 and March 2026, with app-builder platform spending up 5× from January 2025. Stripe also introduced Link's wallet for agents, enabling authorized agent payments.

Stripe Projects has expanded to include new agent integrations with Hermes, Factory Droids, and Warp, allowing agents to provision infrastructure directly. It now supports 16 new providers, for a total of 49, and introduces developer controls for scoped credentials, spend limits per provider, named environments, and native platform provisioning.

Stripe announced Checkout Studio to help businesses tailor checkouts with local payment methods and languages, supported by AI-powered Adaptive Pricing for local currencies. Stripe Authorization Boost and Radar improve payment acceptance and reduce fraud across markets. Stripe Treasury now operates in over 120 countries with stablecoin support in 100 of them, enabling multi-currency settlement and global payouts without manual account management.

Stripe is hosting a half-day event in Seattle on June 23 focused on how AI is reshaping commerce and preparing teams for agentic purchasing. The session will include a Microsoft keynote, ecosystem panel, guided discussions on discoverability and checkout, and hands-on demos with Klarna, Logicbroker, and Orium. Stripe also announced a waitlist for agentic commerce capabilities including OpenAI's Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, along with new resources on AI-driven commerce strategies.

Stripe is hosting a forum in Seattle bringing together senior risk and payments leaders to explore how AI is reshaping fraud strategy. Seats are limited.

Stripe integrated support for Visa's Digital Commerce Authentication Program (DCAP), which rewards businesses for sharing richer transaction data during authentication with a five basis point interchange reduction. Authorization Boost intelligently applies Data Only 3DS to qualifying transactions to capture DCAP savings while optimizing authorization rates and conversion, helping Stripe businesses capture $18.4 million in annualized network cost savings since April 18.

Analysis of 2025 solo founder data shows top decile founders generated 61 times the revenue of the median solo founder in their first six months.

Radar now blocks high-risk transactions across all supported payment methods and defends against new fraud types including multi-account abuse and pay-as-you-go abuse, regardless of payment processor. Platforms gain new tools to evaluate and mitigate merchant risk on and off Stripe.

New report from Stripe Sessions and the SaaS Platform Leaders Summit covers how vertical SaaS leaders are staying differentiated as AI raises the bar for software, including insights on payments and financial services as durable competitive advantages, the shift from AI experimentation to monetization, and the role of platforms in agentic commerce.

This morning at our annual conference, Stripe Sessions, we shared 288 new products and features with more than 9,000 business leaders and builders. We're making Stripe even more programmable; protecting and propelling your business with the strength of the Stripe network; and…

In the Sessions keynote, we talked about how agents are becoming active participants in the internet economy, and how we're building the infrastructure to support them.

We analyzed checkout activity across more than 20K businesses, surveyed shoppers and ecommerce leaders, and gathered insights from businesses on the Stripe network to understand what’s changing in online conversion.

Retailers know search and discovery have already shifted. What comes next is less settled. From embedded checkout to emerging third-party surfaces, here’s how ecommerce and AI leaders are integrating agentic commerce.

Radar now helps prevent free trial abuse with just one click. When enabled, Radar predicts the presence of abusive behavior that violates common trial terms, such as repeated trial signup or missed cancellations, with 90% accuracy.

The most sophisticated fraud teams are shifting from one-size-fits-all fraud approaches to more dynamic, tailored interventions. They are removing friction for trusted users, embedding fraud detection directly into agentic transactions, and investing in multilayered identity…

Adaptive Pricing is now available for subscriptions, allowing businesses to automatically localize prices in 150+ countries while Stripe handles currency conversion. In an A/B test across 1.5 million subscription checkouts, businesses saw 4.7% higher conversion and 5.4% higher…

We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.

A future where we buy with AI agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is harder. These lessons from the first wave of agentic commerce are meant to help sellers decide what to tackle, avoid common bottlenecks, and get ahead of what’s coming.

From November 2025 to February 2026, our models detected 6.2x more abusive free trials across the Stripe network. This is part of a broader shift toward first-party fraud, where legitimate users abuse policies by setting up multiple accounts, cycling through free trials, or…