It may be a “crypto winter,” but it’s a “stable summer” as digital dollar adoption booms, payments giant Stripe said in its annual letter Tuesday.
Bridge, the stablecoin orchestration platform acquired by Stripe in 2024, saw transaction volume more than quadruple last year, according to the letter.
The company also announced that it would “soon” launch the mainnet of Tempo, the payments-focused blockchain it is developing with crypto firm Paradigm and which began testing in December.
Stripe is increasingly working to integrate crypto technology into its payments network, viewing stablecoins as an alternative to cross-border transfers and programmable payments. Stablecoins are a $300 billion class of cryptocurrencies tied to fiat currency like the US dollar that uses blockchains for faster and cheaper settlement.
Their utility has led to a decoupling of stablecoins from crypto market cycles, the payments company wrote. While bitcoin has fallen 50% from its October peak and lost 6% compared to 2025, the volume of stablecoin payments has doubled to around $400 billion, with around 60% resulting from business-to-business transactions, he said, citing a recent report from McKinsey and Artemis.
“Stablecoin payments are quietly and inexorably advancing as real-world adoption continues apace,” the company wrote in the letter.
Underscoring the growing demand for stablecoin, Meta (META), the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, plans to launch its own stablecoin later this year with an outside partner, CoinDesk reported on Tuesday.
Stripe said businesses processed $1.9 trillion on its platform last year, up 34% from 2024. The company also announced a tender offer valuing it at $159 billion.
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