Stripe to Expand Stablecoin Card Business to Over 100 Countries by Year-End

Stripe's country-level expansion matters less as a card launch than as a distribution signal: stablecoin settlement is moving from crypto-native merchants toward mainstream payment rails, and the existing client list of Kraken, Ramp and Morse suggests the demand base is already institutional. The tripling in card spending indicates this is a real, if still small, channel rather than a pilot. The open question is whether Stripe's stated chain- and stablecoin-agnostic posture holds as it scales, since neutrality becomes harder to maintain once volume concentrates on a few networks.