MPP Syncs Its Docs to mppx 0.13.4 and Hardens CI While AIsa's Listing Waits on Confirmed Payment
No verified new MPP development this week — SDK docs caught up to mppx 0.13.4, a new AIsa catalog listing accepts …
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MPP Adds Apify and a First-Party Tempo API While Clearing Ten Dead Listings
Apify joins the catalog as a prepaid, spend-capped service, Tempo’s own API becomes a first-party listing, and ten …
MPP Makes OUSD the Default While KERNEL and Laso Finance Join the Catalog
OUSD becomes the documented default stablecoin across MPP’s quickstarts and SDK examples, two new commercial …
MPP Locks In Deterministic HMAC Challenge Vectors While Docs Catch the IETF Draft
No verified new development this week — no new payment terms, integrations, or catalog changes. The one substantive …
IETF Payment Auth Adds an XRP Ledger Payment Method
After last week’s flat record, this one has a real material development: the IETF Payment Auth spec gains an xrpl …
MPP Makes Its Spec Releases Immutable and Vendors Its CI Actions
This was the flattest week yet — the pulse signal states no verified new development, and for once that’s the …
MPP Adds a WebMCP Payments Guide and One New Service to the Catalog
No new payment terms or provider integrations were verified this week — the executive signal is explicit that everything …
MPP Tightens Atomicity Rules and Catches a Tenfold Stripe Overcharge
No new MPP services, integrations, or pricing terms were verified this week. The three real developments were a …
MPP's Documentation Catches Up While an x402 Paywall Finds Zero Payers
No new MPP services, integrations, or spec changes were verified this week — the quietest week in this brief’s …
Hedera and Solana Specs Expand While MPP's Catalog Sits Still
No new MPP services or provider integrations were verified this week. The material movement was underneath the catalog: …
MPP Tightens Refund Safety While Tempo Chases Institutional Yield
No new MPP integrations or payment terms were verified this week. The real movement was a refund-safety spec refinement, …
Exa Goes First-Party, and MPP's Catalog Moves Past AI APIs
Exa shipped a native MPP integration and four new database APIs went live and payment-enabled, evidence that the …
What Changed in Machine Payments Since Tempo Mainnet
Four months after Tempo mainnet, the primary record shows a machine-payments stack expanding across rails, sessions, …
Loop Engineering Hackathon: 65 Self-Directing Agents Tell Us About What's Next
Field notes from a day at the AWS Builder Loft: 65 teams shipped self-directing agents in a day, and the pattern that …
When Agents Knock, Which Credential Answers?
Field notes on agent identity fragmentation, from an evening w/ Okta , Auth0 , Skyfire , Experian , Mastercard , …
When Agent Is Buyer, Who Owns Last Mile?
Field notes from PayPal’s AI Innovation Meetup , where a talk about token efficiency kept routing toward a harder …
Hard Part Was Never Payment
Four payment companies shared a stage on agentic commerce. All four agreed the transaction is trivial. They spent the …
When Agents Start Paying Each Other
Field report on signals worth amplifying from 77 Context Engineering Hackathon submissions
Day 119 of the Singularity: Unveiling Stripe's New Primitives for AI
Stripe Sessions 2026: Field Notes Two days at Moscone, where infrastructure for non-human buyers got built and almost …
Poisoned Pipelines, Licensed Consequences 🪪 (pt. 2)
Prompt Injection, Debt Collection Agents & California’s Expanding Regulatory Perimeter In Part 1 , we looked at the …
Prompt. Refine. Ship. Developer productivity acceleration in 60 minutes of live demos
The development mental model just shifted. Mark-Daniel S. VC from AWS opened by highlighting " the zero to scale …
Designing with Care: Lessons from Jony Ive & Patrick Collison @ Stripe Sessions 2025
At Stripe Sessions Moscone Center , legendary designer Sir Jony Ive sat down with Patrick Collison for one of the most …
Twin Transformations: How Stripe Is Redefining Financial Infra$tructure for Age of AI & Digital Money
Executive Summary At Stripe Sessions 2025, the company unveiled a sweeping vision of financial infrastructure built for …
The Agentic Commerce Era: Alex Chriss Redefines PayPal’s Platform Strategy
May 1, 2025 At PayPal HQ in San Jose, the future of commerce wasn’t just discussed—it was redefined. The third and final …
Reflections on Ambitious Plans for X: Insights from My PayPal & AmEx Experiences
Per Aisha Counts recent article on X planning a payment platform I share my reflections in the context of my PayPal and …