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  TomOnTech (@TomOnTech) reported 16 minutes ago

  AI AGENTIC PAYMENTS: The Middle Layer May Capture the Most Value AI agents are beginning to purchase data, software, computing power and services without a person initiating each transaction. Over time, agents could conduct more transactions than people, with many payments worth only a few cents or fractions of a cent. This does not necessarily mean payment processors will collect large fees. Coinbase reported more than 165 million x402 transactions but only about $50 million in cumulative volume—roughly $0.30 per transaction. The x402 protocol is also open and charges no protocol fee. If basic settlement becomes inexpensive and standardized, more value may accrue to the middle layer between the agent and the payment rail. That includes: • Identifying the agent • Confirming its permissions • Setting spending limits • Metering resource consumption • Requesting and verifying payment • Routing the transaction • Managing fraud and compliance • Granting access to the requested resource Public companies positioned around this middle layer: Cloudflare $NET Cloudflare may have the most strategically important position because it sits directly between agents and online resources. Its Monetization Gateway is designed to let an API, dataset, webpage or AI tool require payment before providing access. Cloudflare can potentially handle the payment request, usage metering, verification and access decision at the edge. Cloudflare Wallets could also give agents programmable spending limits, approved merchants and maximum transaction sizes. This places Cloudflare on both sides of the transaction: helping online resources collect payments and helping agents make them. The products are still early, however, and meaningful revenue has not yet been demonstrated. Coinbase $COIN Coinbase has the most developed overall agent-payment stack. It created x402, operates Base, provides agent wallets, facilitates payments and participates in USDC economics. Because x402 is open and vendor-neutral, Coinbase’s long-term opportunity is not charging a large protocol fee. It is monetizing wallets, balances, compliance, business services and activity occurring through its infrastructure. Mastercard $MA Mastercard’s potential role extends beyond processing the payment. Agent Pay for Machines is designed to manage identity, permissions and trust across cards, bank accounts and stablecoins, including high-frequency payments worth fractions of a cent. Even if settlement moves to inexpensive stablecoin networks, Mastercard could remain involved as the credentialing and risk-management layer. Visa $V Visa is developing agent scoring, tokenized credentials, fraud models, stablecoin settlement and an agent directory. Its infrastructure may be especially relevant when an agent makes a larger purchase for a person and the merchant needs to confirm that the agent is legitimate, authorized and operating within the user’s instructions. PayPal $PYPL PayPal combines merchant distribution, consumer wallets, PYUSD, fraud management and dispute resolution. Its strongest opportunity may be serving as the connection between consumer agents and merchants rather than processing sub-cent machine-to-machine payments. Circle $CRCL USDC currently dominates x402 settlement, making Circle an important part of the underlying payment rail. However, Circle primarily earns reserve income on USDC balances rather than revenue from each transaction. High transaction volume matters only if it also creates larger funded balances or demand for Circle’s paid wallet, compliance and developer services. Marqeta $MQ Marqeta can issue virtual cards with detailed spending limits and programmatic controls. This makes it a useful middle layer while agents still need to purchase from merchants that accept cards but not stablecoins. Its role may become less important if direct wallet-to-wallet payments become widely accepted. My current ranking: $NET — payment and access decisions at the internet edge $COIN — wallets, facilitation, Base and USDC economics $MA — agent identity, permissions and trust $V — credentials, fraud protection and merchant acceptance $PYPL — connection between consumer agents and merchants $CRCL — underlying stablecoin settlement $MQ — programmable card bridge

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  Downtown Freddie Brown (@SmallsObi) reported 19 minutes ago

  @CloutedRandom @coinbase @CoinbaseSupport Mines not with them but the website I used goes to Paypal and its defo a paypal issue

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 19 minutes ago

  It’s ridiculous; I’m having a serious problem with a client who filed a series of PayPal disputes. It’s absurd because the complaints stem from the fact that some thumbnails didn't pass the UEFN similarity check—something we all know is normal and happens with 90% of thumbnails. Even so, I made sure they passed the check; I even enlisted @MalakiDZN help to ensure they did. Yet, days later, the client disputed every single thumbnail I created—even the ones that had passed the check. On top of that, he defended his claim on PayPal by alleging I had plagiarized existing work. That’s ridiculous, considering I basically took Roblox concepts he sent me and adapted them for Fortnite. It’s absurd. I hope no other designer works with him, because this could happen to them. I don’t know why @PayPal hasn’t resolved this yet; having more than six disputes filed at once doesn't even make sense—it’s just a desperate attempt to get his money back 🫩🫩

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  Prozac Princess™️ (@iiberiangal) reported 26 minutes ago

  I have never had this issue ever because credit unions are top tier but the real cheat code is using PayPal

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  Brian (@brian3609) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Joh08n @PaulGoldEagle Jah, calm down brother. This isn’t the CBDC. This is a distributed digital currency that won’t be controlled against us. It’s coming. Actually, digital currency is already here via cc, ach, PayPal, Venmo, etc. This move will free us from the Fed Reserve controlling the fiat currency

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  NEON RACCOON (COMMS OPEN) (@NTRaccoonART) reported 28 minutes ago

  UPDATE: THIS DUDE DID IT AGAIN. He "pretended" to pay me back the negative balance. Which did cover the issue. Blamed his "mom" then proceeded to DO IT AGAIN. I cannot exactly give money back when it covers a negative balance. He used my donation link. I could very much lose my paypal over this. He paid for the **** he caused me, said his "mommy" wanted to negotiate. This dude claims hes 18. Calls me an AI artist, and asks for the money he robbed me of back. This dude is actually trying to ruin my life. Most malicious thing I have ever dealt with as an artist. Wtf man.

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  stillz (@stillzdw) reported 29 minutes ago

  Honestly, I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. There are others who have gone through something similar or even the exact same situation with him, and apparently, they end up settling things amicably. I hope this can be resolved, as the whole thing seems completely crazy to me. I can understand a problem or a disagreement and working toward a solution, but filing PayPal claims over things that don't even fail a similarity check (like a background) is just absurd; he simply filed a claim for the *entire* job

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  PennyHennessy🕵🏾‍♀️ (@asia_irie) reported 32 minutes ago

  Login to your PayPal, the giving out money for whatever reason lol

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  Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) reported 32 minutes ago

  Elon Musk was fired from his own company while flying to his honeymoon. September 2000. He boarded a plane with his new wife, finally taking a break. While he was in the air, unreachable, the PayPal board held an emergency vote and removed him as CEO. Executives he had hired organized the coup, timed precisely for the hours he couldn't defend himself. He landed to discover he no longer ran his own company. He flew back immediately and tried to fight it. The board held firm. The coup stood. Here's where the story becomes about him and not them. He didn't sue. He didn't burn it down. He didn't spend years in litigation like most founders would. He stayed on the board, kept his shares, and kept advising the men who knifed him. When asked why, he said the mission mattered more than his ego, and his shares mattered more than revenge. Two years later PayPal sold to eBay for $1.5 billion. Because he'd stayed instead of raging, his stake had grown into $180 million. The betrayal became the exact capital that funded SpaceX and Tesla. The men who fired him made him the richest founder in the building. Every rocket that launches today was paid for by a coup that was supposed to end him. Revenge is expensive. Equity is patient. He chose the one that compounds, and the people who wronged him ended up financing his empire.

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  Winston (@CryptoWinnies) reported 33 minutes ago

  @eliana_jordan @kwawmannanjnr a major problem for sure. Paypal is not known for robust dispute practices and they don't claim to be. If your first time to Egypt... sucks but this is not abnormal for Red Sea excursions. Unless you have strong connections with people in the region refrain from putting yourself in risky situations like this in the future. Its a painful experience and not comfy at all. sucks. Reddit, trip advisor are your friend.

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  Anvesh | Shopify SEO & CRO (@affilinoanvesh) reported 34 minutes ago

  E-commerce founders: run these 4 checks today. They come from the 265-point audit we run on e-commerce stores, and none of them need a tool or a developer. 1. Open your top collection page. If there's no text beyond product tiles, Google has almost nothing to rank. Add a short intro up top and a buying guide at the bottom. 2. Google your best-selling product's name. If a retailer outranks your own page for your own product, open both side by side and you'll usually see why: theirs has more detail, more reviews, more reasons to buy. That page is worth fixing before anything else. 3. Count the filters on your biggest category. If a shopper can't get from 400 products down to 10 in a couple of clicks, most of them just leave. 4. Buy from your own store on your phone. Count how much typing you did that Apple Pay or PayPal would have handled. All that typing is where people give up and close the tab. About ten minutes for all four.

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  rishi (@RishiAlwani) reported 34 minutes ago

  @SilenceOfAura US via PayPal is fine. India has always been a problem for a sizeable number of people that’s why GCs come clutch.

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  Diagnosis:Woman (@The_Great_Null) reported 42 minutes ago

  $100- needed for food by monday. My birthday is at the end of the month too, so any help paying down the $400 I owe ca$ would be lovely. ******** money so I could sleep would also be nice. If anyone can help with any of that, my paypal/venmo/ca$ are all nullthegreat

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  T, N, rives (@Pomskyd2) reported 44 minutes ago

  I have @AskPayPal problem almost 3 months never go away INDIAN scamming destroying everything.

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  Micktheskinz (@Mickskinz) reported 44 minutes ago

  @wood_bespoke 🤦 If I could login I wouldn't be asking. If I could cancel my card it wouldn't be a problem. But the details on the PayPal account are completely unknown and use an old phone number so I can't login and they won't talk to me on the phone because I can't answer the questions, the direct debit is not a card payment it's a bank payment straight from my account. I will find the time and do an hour on the phone to the bank but that's the thing I wanted to avoid. It's the only way to sort it.