| Mobile Web

Search results for Stripe

AI & Enterprise

Why payment company Stripe is betting big on OpenRouter

After months of takeover talk, reports say Stripe has agreed to buy AI inference routing service OpenRouter for more than $8 billion. OpenRouter connects developers and companies to multiple AI models through a single API and interface. Bankless writer David Christopher said the deal can be viewed through the lens of growing payment demand from AI agents. OpenRouter charges a 5.5 percent fee when users top up credits and had annualised revenue of about $140 million as of late July.

Crypto

Korean won stablecoin must secure settlement network and digital identity in AI payments era, Hashed report says

Hashed Open Research published a strategy report on a Korean won stablecoin in the agent economy era, saying competition is expanding from issuance to settlement and distribution infrastructure. It urged moving beyond debate over who issues a won stablecoin and instead securing an independent settlement network and a digital identity authentication system. The report said most AI agent payments are handled with dollar-based stablecoins and called for Korea to accelerate related rules and infrastructure.

Crypto

USDC, USDT dominate stablecoin card market with 84 percent of payments

Stablecoin card payments are growing rapidly, with a clear shift toward dollar-linked stablecoins. July stablecoin card payment volume rose to $759 million, about 2.5 times from a year earlier, and USDC and USDT accounted for 84 percent of the total. Transaction counts also increased to about 9 million. By currency, USDC and USDT gained share while euro-based EURe fell sharply. Payment networks also shifted toward Optimism, Solana and Base.