In this channel's material, Stripe projects refers to the initiatives Stripe is building as agents become a new class of internet actor — rethinking payments, identity, and fraud for an economy where software agents, not only people, transact. The framing comes from Emily Glassberg Sands, Stripe's Head of Data and AI. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96]Why Stripe is rebuilding its stack## Why the projects existThe internet was built on the assumption that a person is the main actor. Agents are now a new class of internet actor, and Sands argues this forces every layer of the stack — discovery, payments, identity, fraud — to be rethought. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96]Stripe's projects respond across the lifecycle:- Fraud defense moves up-funnel: fraudsters targeting AI companies steal free-trial credits rather than card numbers, so fraud becomes a full-funnel, customer-lifecycle problem integrated at sign-up, not just at checkout. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@240] [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@619]- New payment infrastructure for agentic commerce, detailed below.The concrete projects## The concrete projectsThe captured material names three specific Stripe efforts:- The Agent Commerce Protocol, co-created with OpenAI, as infrastructure for agentic commerce. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760]- Shared payment tokens that pass credentials merchant-ward without the agent ever seeing them. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139]- Stripe's Link wallet, letting consumers decide which agents may request credentials and under what limits. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139]- Stripe projects, in this material, means Stripe's initiatives to support an economy where agents are new internet actors. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96]- Named projects include the Agent Commerce Protocol (with OpenAI), shared payment tokens, and Link wallet agent permissions. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760] [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139]- Fraud defense is a parallel project: full-funnel, integrated at sign-up. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@619]