Speed, cost, reliability, compliance — building international onramps and offramps requires getting every layer right.
Here's what to consider before you build: https://t.co/L0ZC6CDWPS
🚨 NEW: #Bridge secured both #MiCA crypto-asset service provider authorization and an EMI license in Luxembourg. This gives the company a regulated framework to offer stablecoin and euro payment services in all 27 EU member states.
THE BLOCK: Stripe's stablecoin platform Bridge has secured MiCA and EMI licenses in Luxembourg, allowing it to offer regulated services across all 27 EU member states.
bridge is now dual-licensed as an EMI + CASP under MiCA, covering all 27 EU member states
very excited about what this unlocks for teams building with bridge. expect us to meaningfully expand our EU services + products. we might even start shipping AC units
Link below
We’ve secured both a Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorization under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and an Electronic Money Institution license in Luxembourg.
More here: https://t.co/dZJezr189q
Stablecoins + cards = everyday payments.
Our latest guide breaks down how card programs turn digital dollars into real-world spend for users and new lines of revenue for platforms, fintechs, and crypto businesses.
https://t.co/YHDoQ7U1Bk
In a world with many stablecoins used to hold and move money, we will need open interoperability protocols (with deep liquidiy and atomic swapping) to prevent fragmentation and wreck the user experience.
Today, @Stablecoin submitted its application for organizing a national trust bank to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The charter would allow Bridge to operate under a unified federal framework consistent with the GENIUS Act.
Through this bank, we'll provide: custody, stablecoin issuance, management of stablecoin reserves, and more.
We’ve long believed stablecoins will be a core, regulated financial building block. This regulatory infrastructure will enable us to tokenize trillions of dollars and make this future possible.
⚡️ Powered by CASH
CASH (@useCASH) is a fully backed, open-loop stablecoin issued by Bridge. Existing stables weren’t built for everyday life. So we built the one we wanted. Soon to be accepted across Stripe's global merchant network.
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Today we announced Open Issuance, a new platform that enables any business to launch their own stablecoin.
As stablecoins increase in adoption, businesses handling a large flow of funds need greater control of their product experience, roadmap and their economics.
Open Issuance gives businesses control over key stablecoin design choices, while also providing the ability to maximize rewards and benefit from shared liquidity and interoperability. 🚀
Stablecoins are powerful. But building on someone else’s means you’re tied to their roadmap, fees, and business goals.
Today we’re launching Open Issuance by Bridge — a platform to create your own stablecoin and own your own destiny.
With Open Issuance, you can:
– Customize reserves + product design
– Earn rewards from reserves
– Tap into a shared liquidity network
Full control of your stablecoin, while benefiting from the growth of others in the network.
Learn more here: https://t.co/UpvRtunG8f
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🆕: We're announcing Open Issuance to help stablecoins go mainstream.
• Customizable smart contracts.
• Issuance on any blockchain(s).
• Reserve management.
• Full control over mint and burn fees.
• Out-of-the-box interoperability with other Open Issuance stablecoins and compatibility across Stripe's platform.
Most importantly, we believe that the equilibrium market structure will (and should) involve much more yield sharing than is the case today. As such, Open Issuance helps anyone monetize stablecoins. There is a small platform fee (starting at 50 bps); all yield above that flows to the stablecoin creator.
We're launching Open Issuance with Phantom (CASH), Native Markets (USDH), Metamask (mUSD), and Dakota (DKUSD).
Contact the folks at Bridge to learn more.
We have three cool announcements today:
(1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe.
(2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI.
(3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments, called Shared Payment Tokens.
It's clear that internet purchasing modalities are going to change a lot, and we're excited to start to lay some of the foundations.
Links below!