Stripe held its annual Sessions conference at Moscone West in San Francisco on April 29–30, gathering more than 9,000 business leaders and builders for 80+ breakout sessions across six tracks. The company used the event for one of the largest single-day product launches in fintech history: 288 new products and features, most of them aimed at an economy where AI agents transact on behalf of people and businesses. AINsf collects the main announcements here.
CEO Patrick Collison opened the keynote by calling it “day 119 of the singularity,” and the numbers behind the joke were serious: Stripe processed $1.9 trillion in total payment volume in 2025, up 34% year over year — roughly 1.6% of global GDP — and 86% of the Forbes AI 50 now run on Stripe. Guest appearances included a fireside chat between Collison and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and a closing conversation with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross.
Agentic commerce
The headline storyline was the expansion of Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite, building on the Agentic Commerce Protocol it co-developed with OpenAI last year. Stripe announced a partnership with Google that brings checkout directly into Google’s AI Mode and the Gemini app via the new Universal Commerce Protocol, with Quince, Fanatics, and JD Sports among early merchants, and a partnership with Meta enabling native checkout inside Facebook ads. A new Machine Payments Protocol, co-authored with Tempo, supports agent microtransactions and recurring payments.
Consumers got agent-ready tools as well: Link, Stripe’s 250-million-user wallet, can now let agents make delegated purchases with spending approvals and one-time-use cards, while Treasury financial accounts became agent-accessible with human-in-the-loop confirmation. On stage, Stripe demoed two AI agents autonomously transacting with each other.
Stablecoins everywhere
The second big theme was stablecoins. Stripe introduced streaming payments — real-time usage metering via Metronome paired with stablecoin micropayments on the Tempo blockchain — expanded stablecoin acceptance to 32 additional markets, and added new currencies, chains, and on/off-ramps through its Bridge subsidiary. Its Privy acquisition now powers digital asset accounts and agent wallets, with early adopters including Ramp, Deel, and DoorDash. Stablecoin volume on Stripe reached roughly $400 billion in 2025, doubling year over year.
For developers and merchants
Among the many other launches: Stripe Managed Payments, a merchant-of-record service, became generally available globally; Checkout Studio entered preview for building and A/B-testing checkout flows; the Terminal Reader T600, an 8-inch smart reader supporting custom apps, went on sale; and Radar was repositioned as a standalone risk platform that works across payment providers. Stripe Projects — which provisions a full development stack including hosting, databases, and auth — reached general availability with 32 partners including Vercel, Cloudflare, and Supabase.
Co-founder John Collison summed up the developer zeitgeist in one line: “Vibe coding is so 2025. The leading edge is now in vibe deploying.”
Sessions 2027 is already scheduled for May 5–6, 2027, at Moscone North & South.