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Stripe Sessions 2026 | Keynote

2026-05-19 · 4 company · 7 thematic

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speakers

patrick collison

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, the financial infrastructure company serving internet businesses around the world.

georgios constant

Former Ethereum architect; explained Tempo's genesis as a payments-focused blockchain for the agentic tsunami; disclosed DoorDash, Klarna, Visa, Stripe, Standard Chartered as live users/validators.

ginger baker

Discussed Meta's commerce strategy across 3.5B daily users, stablecoin payouts to creators via Stripe, and the shift from payment 'moment' to agent 'policy'; confirmed Meta joining Universal Commerce Protocol.

kate royers

Described Shopify's evolution into financial services (Balance, Capital), stablecoin collaboration with Stripe, Tempo validator plans, billions-of-products catalog for agent discovery, and co-founding Universal Commerce Protocol with Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce.

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“Businesses on the Stripe platform, all of you, collectively generated revenue that's equivalent to about 1.6% of total global GDP last year, quite remarkable. And this works out to about 1.9 trillion dollars in total payment volume, and th…”

—patrick collison

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