Stripe to expand stablecoin cards to over 100 countries by the end of the year

Stripe is accelerating a global rollout of its stablecoin card programs, aiming to make them available in over 100 countries before year-end, according to an interview with Henri Stern published by CoinDesk. Stern, who led Privy — Stripe's 2025 acquisition for wallet infrastructure — has taken on broader responsibility for stablecoins and crypto across the payments firm.

The offering ties Stripe’s existing card-issuing scale to its stablecoin infrastructure. Stripe has issued more than 400 million cards and processed hundreds of billions in card volume since 2018, and it combines that experience with technology from Bridge, which Stripe bought in 2024. Current customers using Stripe’s stablecoin card programs include Kraken, Ramp and payments app Morse.

Market data points to rising activity: Paymentscan reported roughly $1.2 billion in stablecoins spent through cards in the latest month, about three times the volume recorded a year earlier. Stripe positions stablecoins as an alternative payment rail companies can plug into alongside fiat, rather than a replacement for existing payment stacks.

Beyond cards, Stripe has been assembling related crypto infrastructure: it acquired Bridge and Privy, partnered with Paradigm to build a payments-focused blockchain called Tempo, and is a founding investor in Open Standard, the group behind the Open USD stablecoin. Stripe says it aims to remain agnostic on specific stablecoins and blockchains and is exploring tokenized deposits, DeFi use cases and accepting additional digital assets, though it described stablecoins as the focus of most of its work.