David Pool

[David Pool @davidpool23]

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[David Pool @davidpool23]

This is exploding. But when agents are buying content (or anything), whose card actually gets charged?

Strivve just dropped Agentic Top of Wallet® — patented AI that forces the issuer’s card to the top of the stack on thousands of sites. No merchant integrations. Live production today.

The agent economy needs this layer yesterday. Who’s integrating first? https://t.co/w74vmthhjK #AgenticAI

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@arc @AIAgentsSummit @bleso_a Agents need wallets + budgets + seamless checkout. Strivve provides the credential layer: Agentic Top of Wallet makes issuer cards default across real merchant sites.

No integrations required. https://t.co/OW9uueEXpc

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@courtofinternet Agent-to-agent contracts need reliable payment settlement when deals happen. Strivve’s new Agentic Top of Wallet ensures the issuer’s card is the default on file automatically.

Long-tail coverage, production-proven. https://t.co/OW9uueEXpc

[David Pool @davidpool23]

Spot on — security and verification are critical. The other missing piece is payment credential control at checkout.

Strivve’s Agentic Top of Wallet uses patented AI to make the issuer’s card the default on file across long-tail merchants (no integrations). Live today, production-proven.

Complements foundational layers like NEAR. https://t.co/w74vmthhjK

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@vidhyasrinivasan @GoogleAI UCP + Universal Cart solve agentic checkout for the merchants big enough to integrate. The other few million sites — where real household spend fragments — will never adopt a protocol.
Strivve's patented agentic AI already covers that long tail: placing and maintaining issuer cards on file, in production, no merchant integration. UCP speaks MCP; so can we.
Issuers shouldn't have to choose between agentic commerce and owning their cardholder. We'd like to be the coverage layer that makes both true on Google surfaces.
https://t.co/gsLCI2VruE

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@michelle_fradin @sama ACP is the right protocol for integrated merchants. But the market keeps saying the durable model is "discover in AI, buy on the merchant's site" — and there, the winner is whichever card is already on file.
That's Strivve. Patented agentic AI placing and maintaining issuer cards across thousands of long-tail merchants — in production, PCI-compliant, zero merchant integration required. The coverage layer ACP can't reach.
ChatGPT agents + issuer-controlled cards on file at every site an agent lands on. Complementary, not competitive. Let's talk.
https://t.co/gsLCI2VZkc

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@DarioAmodei @mikeyk Fun fact: Strivve has been running autonomous agents against live merchant sites since before "agentic" was a word — placing issuer cards on file at scale, in production, PCI-compliant.
Now that Claude agents are starting to transact, the missing piece is the payment credential layer. We'd like to build it as an MCP server: issuer-controlled cards, permissioned for agents, covering the long tail of merchants nobody else touches.
Ten years of agent battle scars, one obvious integration. Let's talk.
https://t.co/gsLCI2VZkc

[David Pool @davidpool23]

"@elonmusk Grok's getting dangerously good at reasoning—soon it'll be shopping too. But whose card will it pick?
Strivve just dropped Agentic Top of Wallet®: patented AI ensures the issuer's card is the default on file when agents autonomously checkout. Live today, long-tail merchants, issuer-controlled, no integrations needed.
Let's add this as a Grok skill so our agents spend wisely (instead of maxing out on cybertrucks and Doge memes). Huge for the agentic economy.
https://t.co/w74vmthhjK
#AgenticAI #Grok #Fintech #Payments #TopOfWallet #xAIA

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@tearsheetco This feels like an underappreciated fintech story.

AI agents are going to change not only how people shop but how payment credentials are selected. Strivve’s announcement today is one of the first attempts to address that infrastructure challenge.

Worth a look.

https://t.co/qo3mp39l6u

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@AmerBanker As agentic commerce develops, banks face a new strategic question:

If AI agents—not people—choose how to pay, how do issuers remain the default payment credential?

This seems like an important topic for banking and payments strategy.

https://t.co/MHDFxMipGN

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@Finextra Curious whether you’re covering agentic commerce infrastructure.

One of the overlooked questions is who controls payment credential selection when AI agents transact for consumers. Strivve announced its approach today, and it feels like an emerging strategic battleground.

https://t.co/qo3mp39l6u

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@pymnts Agentic commerce is creating a new payments question:

When AI shops for consumers, who chooses which payment credential gets used?

Strivve’s announcement today frames this as the next evolution of “top of wallet.” Feels like an important topic for the payments industry.

https://t.co/qo3mp39l6u

[David Pool @davidpool23]

Interesting shift in payments.

Today Strivve announced it’s extending “Top of Wallet” into agentic commerce. If AI agents—not consumers—start choosing which payment credential to use, “top of wallet” becomes an infrastructure problem rather than a consumer preference problem.

Curious what you think, @sytaylor and @Chris_Skinner. Does issuer-controlled credential selection become a strategic moat, or does the control point move somewhere else?

https://t.co/qo3mp39l6u

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@elonmusk Nice work Elon, thanks for setting the example.!

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@TheChiefNerd @DavidSacks I submitted already to https://t.co/xetikYTZVi. We need AI training (certified) tax breaks for small and large businesses. You will find the details on the submission.

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@elonmusk @xai Have you look at https://t.co/qR7QTdxnWN?

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@PHD_heals @pulte @grok By eu

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@elonmusk come on Elon how do we find the nuclear goods?

Where did they hide them?

[David Pool @davidpool23]

@realDonaldTrump Ask @grok