Gene Reda

Product @ Mastercard, working on how agents pay for stuff. Opinions my own.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Agents are buying more stuff for us humans, but "trust me bro" is not a good system for me (or a merchant) as I ask my bot to handle a growing list of purchases.

We and Google have been working on an open spec to close the gap- it's called Verifiable Intent. (1/6)

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Perfect first tweet on the feed for a Monday morning. Making me think about one or two things I need to be a little more golden retriever about this week.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

The most revolutionary thing about AI is that it’s suddenly reasonable to ask a question like “can I learn to do genomics and sequence my own genome in my basement this weekend?” and the answer is very often “yeah why not?”

[Banana @banana_baeee]

Guys look Claude helped me - a random guy in his basement - build a wetlab and do vibe genomics!

I sequenced my whole genome despite zero lab experience, without my DNA leaving home!

I put together my notes and a step by step guide here:

https://t.co/T5x6PKkwjW

It was a lot easier than I was expecting!

Ultimately I hit ~16x coverage and compared my results against my 600k raw 23andme SNPs, and it held up!

[Gene Reda @genereda]

We are building infrastructure flexible enough to extend payments to every agent, even the one running on your Mac Mini.

(Personally this is where I see some of the most compelling agentic commerce use cases emerging!)

[Crossmint @crossmint]

BIG NEWS: Your AI agents will soon be able to pay with your existing @Mastercard via lobstercash.

Your card. Your agents. Your rules.

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[Gene Reda @genereda]

@GovSherrillNJ And official parking at the neighboring mall is $225 or $300 depending on the match.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@GovSherrillNJ A lot of people in these comments asking why this is different from other big events- the answer is FIFA has banned attendees from parking at the stadium.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@sytaylor Checkout in a chat was never agentic commerce. Delegating spending authority to an agent is going to happen in experiences that span the familiar and entirely new. Agentic commerce isn’t “failing.” It hasn’t even started!

[delia @delia_cai]

Kind of think we should get an emergency amber alert style warning if the temp is gonna drop 20 degrees like that in an hour

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Reposting late, but I am so excited about the direction of travel for payments on the web. More open, more interoperable. This is the way.

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

https://t.co/mVRe3TMSyr

[Gene Reda @genereda]

This looks awesome

[Linecook @linecook]

Hey everyone, we’re Nick & Nick!

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[Gene Reda @genereda]

@JordanLyall You forgot Verifiable Intent (Mastercard + Google)! Also, Mastercard Agentic Tokens are live with volume.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Great points (especially when it comes to what consumers actually care about when shopping). But “open” takes on a different timbre in payments versus web / etc., and there are many factors that have driven the success of open or semi-open frameworks in this space. Ideally we can deliver the things buyers & sellers need/want as an open ecosystem.

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

https://t.co/EnnQK45zXe

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@chandler_agi @brian_armstrong Last week Google and Mastercard open-sourced Verifiable Intent to be that standard

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@shawmakesmagic Yeah this is right, the interfaces are mostly good- but we can strengthen the flows a bit, e.g., ensure we can do easy biometric auth (also existing infra) if a seller wants assurance of my consent before they accept the trx from my bot. This is like 90% BAU, with better proofs

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@chandler_agi @Mastercard @t54ai @Google Let's go!!

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@0xSammy thx, my team and I worked like crazy on this and we are pretty psyched about it - need to get this stuff right for most people to start trusting agents with their money!

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@Kylechasse We are really proud of this and think it will help agentic commerce scale much faster, feedback super welcome!! Repo with docs, spec, and reference app on GitHub (/agent-intent/verifiable-intent)

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@thekonst1 @Kylechasse this should help catch drift- the buyer authenticates/signs the L2 & it’s hashed as it is presented, so it can be verified by self (subagent?) or by other parties (merchant, network, etc.) before/while making the actual purchase.

[Gene Reda @genereda]

@fedesarquis @Kylechasse https://t.co/VdMrHWGH2Q - my team and I worked really hard on this, super curious to hear your thoughts

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Full spec & link to repo at https://t.co/qu2V6c2UA7

If you're working on these things, I'd love to chat!

[Gene Reda @genereda]

Agents are buying more stuff for us humans, but "trust me bro" is not a good system for me (or a merchant) as I ask my bot to handle a growing list of purchases.

We and Google have been working on an open spec to close the gap- it's called Verifiable Intent. (1/6)

[Gene Reda @genereda]

The spec is in draft and there's plenty to improve, but we're building in the open because this really should be a mechanism that accelerates the whole industry.

So if you're here, jump in - what's going to be our biggest obstacle? (6/6)

[Gene Reda @genereda]

You may recognize the name from AP2, and we worked closely with Google to develop that concept into a full spec. It's protocol-agnostic, extensible, and built on established and emerging standards and concepts- each of those three layers is a Selective Disclosure JWT. (5/6)