This is my first-ever in-person episode, recorded live at Stripe Tour London. I sat down with Neetika Bansal, Business Lead for Connect, Money Management, and Crypto at Stripe.

We covered a lot of ground: why Stripe doesn’t have its own stablecoin, what Stripe Treasury actually means for global startups, how AI agents are starting to transact at scale, and where the real stablecoin volume is coming from.

Here’s what we got into:

Why Stripe built an open stablecoin issuance platform instead of launching its own coin

Stripe Treasury: multi-currency accounts, stablecoin balances, and paying contractors worldwide

The machine payments protocol and Link AI wallet

x402 protocol hitting 100M cumulative transactions and what that signals

How companies like Meta, Felix, and Deel are using stablecoins for real econo ...