Stripe

In 2022, we launched Frontier to send a signal to scientists and entrepreneurs: build carbon removal technology, and we will buy it.  In four years, the field went from a dozen or so companies to hundreds, removing tens of thousands of tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. Today, we are committing to buy an additional $915 million alongside Google, Shopify, Salesforce, H&M Group, and Anthropic. The technology works. The question now is whether demand can match the pace of technological progress. Frontier’s “Growth AMC” is designed to bridge that gap. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g-V3_FEA.

I recently wrote about what I've been working on the past two years, and others have built over the past decade: the infrastructure that keeps Stripe's entire developer ecosystem in sync with every API change we ship. We built an OpenAPI-based pipeline that flows API changes from their initial definitions all the way to our SDKs, docs, and other developer products in lockstep, letting engineers focus on their product instead of manually propagating their changes to every developer product that Stripe offers. Read more about how it works under the hood → https://lnkd.in/dRJmwRVx

Last week, agent traffic surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time. Agents browsing webpages account for some of that traffic, but our data points to a more significant reason for this growth: agents building software. Agent traffic to our documentation grew more than 10x in 2025 and now makes up nearly 40% of docs traffic. We’ve also seen exponential growth in new Stripe CLI users over the past year, with 70% of CLI requests for API resources coming from agents. Our data shows that agents are now fully capable of independently writing code and integrating with APIs like Stripe’s. And yet, many of the steps adjacent to writing code—such as provisioning infrastructure, managing credentials, setting up accounts, and connecting services together—are still too hard for agents to do on their own. Today, we’re expanding Stripe Projects to solve this with new agent integrations, additional providers, and new developer controls. Read our blog post: https://lnkd.in/dWQaTpAM.

It's a wild time to be building infrastructure. Today we shipped another update to Stripe Projects: more agents, more providers, more developer controls. But the thing I keep coming back to isn't the feature list, it's who we're building with. Automattic. Wix. Laravel. ClickHouse. HeyGen. E2B. Each one a team that looked at the agentic era and said: the dev stack needs to be programmable, not just configurable. And they built toward that alongside us. That's the best part of this job. We're not just building Stripe features, we're building two-sided infrastructure. The network only works if both sides win: developers get a unified way to spin up their entire stack from a CLI, and providers get distribution to the engineers and agents who need them most. 2026 is the year agents become builders. We're trying to make sure the infrastructure is ready when they show up. https://lnkd.in/g6C5KDgu

John Collison sits down with Barney Hussey-Yeo, the founder and CEO of AI financial assistant Cleo. They discuss the realities of delivering personalized financial advice to the 99%, the critical need for "creative destruction," and why deep vertical AI applications will ultimately outperform broad frontier models. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gzyQB5MR.