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Stripe Tests New Stablecoin Project as $3.7T Market Looms
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said a stablecoin tool for companies outside US, UK and EU is ready for testing.
Updated Apr 28, 2025, 8:32 p.m. Published Apr 26, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
What to know:
- Stripe is inviting businesses outside US, UK and EU to test a new stablecoin product.
- Companies based outside the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
- The move comes after Stripe received regulatory approval to acquire Bridge, a stablecoin payments platform.
Stripe is preparing to test a new stablecoin payments product aimed at companies based outside the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
The company’s CEO, Patrick Collison, confirmed on social media that Stripe had been planning this offering for nearly a decade and is now opening it up to pilot users.
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The announcement comes after Stripe received regulatory approval to acquire Bridge, a payments platform founded by former Coinbase executives Zach Abrams and Sean Yu. Bridge’s infrastructure offers an alternative to traditional systems like SWIFT for cross-border transactions.
Stripe's stablecoin pilot project comes at a time when companies ranging from crypto firms to TradFi banks are piling into the industry, trying to grab a piece of the red-hot sector. In fact, Citi said stablecoins could be a "ChatGPT" moment for blockchain adoption, and the market, primarily pegged to the U.S. dollar, could grow up to $3.7 trillion by 2030 with regulatory support.
Stripe has a long history with crypto. It was the first major payment processor to support bitcoin payments back in 2014, though it later dropped the feature over BTC’s slow transaction speeds and fees.
Read more: Stablecoins Are a 'WhatsApp Moment' for Money Transfers, a16z Says
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