Stripe to enable USDC payments starting this summer

Stripe said Thursday that stablecoin payments will be integrated into the servicer's checkout suite in several weeks. According to the company, crypto transactions will “immediately” settle to fiat. 

"Crypto is back," Stripe's cofounder, John Collison, posted along with a demonstration video Thursday on X . "@Stripe will start supporting global stablecoin payments this summer. Transactions instantly settle on-chain and automatically convert to fiat."

“We're excited about empowering Stripe users to accept stablecoin payments, helping them expand their global reach and give their customers access to easy, fast, and trustworthy transactions even if they don't have a bank account or credit card,” the company said in a statement shared with The Block.

Stripe's latest push to incorporate cryptocurrencies into its services suite comes several years after the company phased out bitcoin payments on its platform. The company sunsetted the experiment in 2018, reasoning at the time that bitcoin's volatile price action made the token more suitable as “an asset [rather] than… a means of exchange.”