Stripe is already a payments colossus. Now it wants to make stablecoins the backbone of global commerce
Last October, the payments giant Stripe announced a blockbuster $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a little-known startup focused on the dollar-backed cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins. Long a feature of the insular world of blockchain diehards, the technology had yet to break into Silicon Valley. But Stripe’s acquisition, alongside the thawing regulatory environment under the Trump … Read more
