Stripe Stablecoin Rails Land in 60 Countries — Merchants First

First USDC payouts plus a Stripe-branded USDB stablecoin. The merchant rail crypto missed for a decade is finally live.

Stripe just turned on stablecoin payouts in 60 countries simultaneously, leading with USDC and a co-branded USDB token settled on Bridge rails. Merchants can accept fiat at the checkout and choose to receive net proceeds in dollar-pegged stablecoins on the same business day, without ever touching an exchange.

The product matters because it kills the single biggest objection cross-border merchants have had to crypto: settlement opacity. Stripe handles fiat ramps, KYC and tax docs on both sides, then drops the stablecoin into a wallet the merchant already controls.

USDB itself is the structural move. By issuing under its own brand, Stripe captures the float — the same yield game USDC and USDT play — without paying it away to a third-party issuer. At Stripe volume, the float is a multi-billion-dollar revenue stream.