Trillion-Dollar Fintech Giant Stripe Steps Into Stablecoins

By: defi news|2025/05/08 06:00:06
0
Share
copy
Stripe, the financial infrastructure giant that processed $1.4 trillion in payments volume in 2024, is stepping into the world of stablecoins with its new Stablecoin Financial Accounts.Stablecoin Financial Accounts will allow users to send, receive, and store stablecoins within Stripe in more than 100 different countries, but notably exclude areas with major economic value, such as North America and Western Europe.The launch comes as the stablecoin and real-world asset (RWA) market capitalizations hit new all-time highs. The stablecoin sector is currently valued at $242 billion, up 86% since the beginning of 2024. The RWA market is up 125% to $19.5 billion in the same period.To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io

You may also like

Particle Founder: The entrepreneurial insights I have gained the most from in the past year

Stop lean startup, stop lightning entrepreneurship, and think carefully about what your product aspirations are.

Huang Renxun's latest podcast transcript: The future of Nvidia, the development of embodied intelligence and agents, the explosion of inference demand, and the public relations crisis of artificial intelligence

The competition in the future is not just about whose model is larger or whose computing power is stronger, but also about who understands the industry better, who can embed AI more deeply into real processes, and who can organize these capabilities into a runnable and scalable system.

OKX Ventures Research Report: AI Agent Economic Infrastructure Research Report (Part 1)

The existing infrastructure is hostile to the Agent economy. Agents can think and act independently at the "capability level," but at the "economic level," they are still locked into infrastructure designed for humans.

The migration of settlement rights: B18 and the institutional starting point of on-chain banks

In the traditional system, banks decide the settlement; in the on-chain system, code begins to take over this responsibility.

From Tencent and Circle: Looking at the Simple and Difficult Questions of Investment

The AI narrative continues to ferment, but the recent performance of related stocks varies, with some in the midst of summer and others as if in winter.

The second half of stablecoins no longer belongs to the crypto circle

What Coinbase doesn't want, Mastercard is eager to buy.

Popular coins

Latest Crypto News

Read more