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Since 2016, every "crypto goes mainstream" story felt forced.
But lately, this changed.
Stablecoins and payments have emerged as the killer use case. And over the last months, Stripe went all-in on this:
Acquisition of Bridge, a stablecoin infra company, for $1.1B in February 2025
Launch of stablecoin accounts in 101 countries in May 2025
Acquisition of Privy, a crypto wallet provider with 75M users in June 2025
Stablecoin integration with Shopify & Coinbase in June 2025.
Today, we unpack how Stripe is assembling the world's first end-to-end crypto infrastructure monopoly.
Subscribe now The problem
Crypto has (or had?) a problem: it’s impossibly hard to use.
