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Key Takeaways
- Stripe plans stablecoin-backed card coverage in more than 100 countries.
- Platforms can offer cards funded by stablecoin balances to their own users.
- Merchants can continue accepting familiar card payments.
- DeFi and tokenized deposits remain future areas of exploration.
Henri Stern, Stripe’s head of stablecoins and crypto, told CoinDesk that the company expects its stablecoin card business to reach more than 100 countries by the end of 2026. The product is aimed at fintechs, marketplaces and payment platforms that want to offer cards to their own users.
Those platforms can give users a stablecoin balance and connect it to a card programme run through Stripe. A customer then pays with a card in the usual way, while Stripe and Bridge provide the infrastructure that supports the balance, card issuing and payment flow behind the purchase.
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