Privy at Stripe Sessions: building for stablecoins and agentic commerce
Two days with business leaders, founders, and developers, and what’s next
Vinny Mullin
|May 5, 2026
Last week, the Privy team attended Stripe Sessions for the first time as a Stripe company. We announced new products, joined the keynote, ran live demos, and spent two days talking with hundreds of builders, developers, and enterprises at the Privy booth.
Here's what we saw on the ground.
Stablecoins, now as infrastructure
If Sessions had a theme, it was this: stablecoins and agents are no longer a niche track — they're becoming core to modern payments. Questions ranged from foundational ("What is a stablecoin?") to practical ("How do I add one to my existing payment flow?").
During the keynote, Privy CEO Henri Stern announced digital asset accounts: a new primitive that gives developers a single interface to hold, move, and grow stablecoin and tokenized assets globally. Rather than stitching together wallets, custody layers, and settlement logic, developers get one account abstraction that handles the complexity underneath — so they can build global financial products on crypto rails from day one.
Privy Cofounder and CTO Asta Li presented alongside Andrew Chapello, Product Lead at Ramp, demonstrating how digital asset accounts can power a full financial experience inside any product — balances, yield, payouts, cards — without requiring users to understand anything about crypto, with stablecoin infrastructure fully abstracted behind the experience.
Agentic commerce, moving into production
As programmable money becomes easier to integrate, the next question is how software begins to use it.
We introduced agentic wallets and our Agent CLI to Sessions attendees. The best question we heard all week: "How do I give an agent a wallet without it going rogue?" Privy's policy engine answers that directly, giving developers programmable control over how agents access and move funds.
To close the week, Privy COO Max Segal and Head of Marketing Debbie Soon joined AWS leaders for a candid conversation on building payments infrastructure for agents: the technical constraints, the compliance questions, and what it takes to move beyond prototypes. At the core: giving agents real identity, controlled access to funds, and the guardrails needed to operate reliably in production.
Two days at the booth
Privy was part of the Crypto and Stablecoins section of the Stripe Sessions Expo, where interest was high and conversations ran deep. The booth ran at capacity across both days, teams ranging from Fortune 500 product managers to two-person developer shops. The range of questions reflected where the market actually is, spanning from foundational understanding to detailed implementation
We also ran Rail Rush 3, an arcade game built on Privy and Tempo where players collect stablecoins by piloting a train along a crypto railway. After playing, attendees scanned a QR code and were provisioned with a Privy wallet to claim onchain prizes — a low-friction way to put wallet creation in someone's hands for the first time.
Across hundreds of conversations, a few themes kept surfacing:
Yield — how to put idle capital to work through stablecoin-native treasury management
Compliance — how programmatic controls and auditable integrations enable teams to build on crypto rails with confidence
Breadth of use cases — from enterprises to nonprofits to financial institutions, teams are exploring wallets and stablecoin payments to solve real cross-border problems
Last but not least, the booth also featured a live Tap-to-Pay demo built by the Privy team: stablecoin payments running on Stripe Terminal, spent directly from a Privy embedded wallet. Tap, pay, settle, thereby presenting an alternative to traditional card rails and a complete rethinking of the end-to-end payments flow.
What Sessions signals
Sessions drew over 10,000 attendees, with 280+ product announcements, making it one of the clearest annual signals of where payments infrastructure is heading.
For Privy, it was an opportunity to both share what we've built and hear directly from the teams putting it into practice. The conversations were technical, candid, and consistently pointed in the same direction: toward production systems built on stablecoins and increasingly operated by software
To learn more about digital asset accounts, visit our docs, reach out at sales@privy.io, or watch the Sessions keynote here.
