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title: Stripe projects
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  As used in this channel's material, **Stripe projects** are the initiatives
  Stripe is building for the agentic economy — where agents are a new class of
  internet actor — including the Agent Commerce Protocol co-created with OpenAI,
  shared payment tokens that keep credentials away from agents, Link wallet
  agent permissions, and fraud defense integrated at sign-up.
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# Stripe projects

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## Definition

As used in this channel's material, **Stripe projects** are the initiatives Stripe is building for the agentic economy — where agents are a new class of internet actor — including the Agent Commerce Protocol co-created with OpenAI, shared payment tokens that keep credentials away from agents, Link wallet agent permissions, and fraud defense integrated at sign-up. [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@96] [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@2760] [^90e39a1e-87e8-5b3f-b9f2-f003e83fd62b@3139]

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 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 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]