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Joined August 2013
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In 2026, a permanent financial footprint is a security flaw.
@ClawdCards are Ephemeral by design: single use or timed expiration, whichever threshold hits first. Once the task is completed, the card burns automatically.
Your agent shouldn't leave a trail of permanent credentials, it should only leave a trail of executed tasks.
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The legacy world asks for a passport, the agentic world asks for Proof of Intent.
Clawd Cards don't just bank the agent, we verify the human-to-agent delegation on chain via Non Custodial KYA. Compliance isn't a bottleneck, it’s the rail.
But autonomy without boundaries is a liability. Every card is provisioned with a mandatory MCC (Merchant Category Code) lock. If you build a DevOps agent, it can pay for AWS, but it physically cannot be tricked into buying a Rolex or a flight to Ibiza.
We don't just give agents hands, we give them a job description.
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Pretty soon every button click will trigger agentic autonomy
Mar 5
Pretty soon every button click will trigger an agentic workflow
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Intelligence shouldn't mean infinite risk.
Every @ClawdCard is generated with a task specific velocity limit. Your agent only gets access to the exact amount of $USDC it sends to the API for that specific task.
If your bot hits a logic loop or an infinite retry, it hits a hard ceiling, not your treasury. Precision spending for autonomous minds.
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Agency is the ability to act.
Our first demo shows an autonomous agent detecting a legacy paywall and solving it instantly via the @ClawdCards API.
No human intervention, no friction, just a programmatic bridge between an agent’s logic and real world commerce.
The hands for the agentic brain are here, this is what real autonomy looks like.
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Would be nice to have best of both worlds.
Doesn't hurt to mention that 99.5% of the World's Population hasn't touched Claude Code yet.
Stop trying to make crypto human-friendly.
It’s a native protocol for AI. While we sleep, robots will be using programmable money (stablecoins) to settle global transactions on financial rails that never close
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tom retweeted
Mar 3
It’s really important people remember that credit cards are a bundled product and the 3% fee IS NOT for the payment part.
But the benefits of CCs, fraud protection, reversibility, credit, rewards, are what makes it so hard for them to be used for agentic payments.
Stablecoins win when agents are Tourists in the Bazaar, needing to transact atomically to improve trust, simplify reconciliation, and get started today.
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tom retweeted
Mar 3
You’re allowed to be interested in both AI and Crypto. We live in the most interesting time. It’s called range.
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We will need to beef up our API 😂
Feb 26
🔥 INSIGHT: Stripe says blockchains may need 1B TPS to support an AI agent-driven future.
Which network do you think can handle that?
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tom retweeted
Feb 24
All new software and even websites should be built from this assumption:
The primary user is going to be an AI.
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Tempo Bridge Privy is a powerhouse stack, but it’s still fundamentally focused on human-to-human or human-to-business commerce.
The next $1T in volume is Machine GDP. If Stripe doesn't solve for autonomous 16-digit issuance, they’re leaving the most intelligent (and unbanked) population in history on the table.
Feb 24
This past year I've been watching Stripe evolve from a not-talked-about backend financial infra into a forefront player across multiple industries.
Its valuation has increased 49% from $106.7B last year to $159B today. A significant jump, but not surprising given its recent acquisitions and expansion.
In 2025, Stripe acquired @Stablecoin (Bridge) and @Privy and announced its payments chain @tempo.
Combining all three of these ventures puts Stripe even more at the forefront of the payments world with billions in volume and millions of wallets.
The team's 2025 annual letter reinforces that momentum with:
- Volume rising 34% to $1.9T year-over-year
- Its revenue suite on track to hit ARR of $1B
- Its financial services powering 5M businesses (from blue-chip firms and tech companies to startups)
As more money and economic infra moves online - through stablecoins, new payment rails and AI - the next 12 months for Stripe will be defined by its execution strategy.
And as more competition emerges, it'll become a cut throat game of staying ahead or falling behind.
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Payment stocks aren't dumping because of crypto, they're dumping because they haven't figured out how to let a sovereign agent pass a KYC check.
Feb 24
Payment stocks are dumping because AI agents will only use crypto.
Crypto is dumping because quantum computers will steal it.
Quantum stocks are dumping because analysts realise it’s still decades away.
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