what's Bridge?
Bridge is a stablecoin infrastructure platform designed for developers to enable seamless global money movement using stablecoins. It provides APIs for issuing, managing, and integrating stablecoins into applications, supporting features like programmable issuance, reserve management, compliance, and liquidity provisioning. Originally founded in 2022, Bridge was acquired by Stripe in 2024, enhancing Stripe's crypto capabilities by bridging traditional payments with blockchain-based stablecoin rails for faster, cheaper cross-border transactions. Key offerings include Open Issuance, which allows businesses to launch custom stablecoins in days with built-in security and regulatory tools, and integrations like stablecoin-linked Visa cards and financial accounts in over 100 countries. Bridge supports major stablecoins such as USDC and its own USDB, facilitating on-ramps, off-ramps, and DeFi interactions while handling fiat reserves backed by U.S. Treasuries and bank deposits to maintain peg stability.
Bridge is a Better Money portfolio partner for stablecoin payments.
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x.com/stablecoinWorks with Better Money as a portfolio company partner for stablecoin payment infrastructure.
Participates at BlockworksDAS conference in NYC with a kiosk (K56) and a talk by Head of Money Movement on the Institutional Track during the week of March 23, 2026.
Serves as Title Sponsor of Stable Summit IV in Cannes on March 27-28, 2026, where Issuance & Crypto Data Lead Jackie Zhang speaks on stablecoin infrastructure for payments.
Partnered with Visa to enable stablecoin-backed Visa cards in over 100 countries, with on-chain settlement via Solana and Ethereum, in partnership with Lead Bank.
Integrated USDsui at launch with Bluefin, Cetus, NAVI, Turbos, Ferra, Suilend, Scallop, Aftermath, Alphalend, Slush, DoubleUp, and Pyth on Sui Network.
Directs yield from USDsui reserves toward SUI token buybacks and removal from circulation, plus DeFi liquidity and market making programs.
Directs interest income from USDsui collateral into liquidity grants for DeFi applications to subsidize platforms and deepen market liquidity across the ecosystem.
Experienced a 12-hour payout delay and 35x transaction cost spike due to memecoin congestion on the underlying blockchain.
Stablecoin volume quadrupled in 2025.
Raised Series A funding round according to Galaxy investment partner.
Trading begins on Kraken exchange on 2026-01-27 at 14:00 UTC.
Received OCC conditional approval for a federally chartered national trust bank, allowing stablecoin issuance and digital asset custody under federal oversight, joining Circle, Ripple, and Paxos.
Klarna partners with Stripe-owned Privy to build a crypto wallet that will give users access to digital assets, expanding beyond the KlarnaUSD stablecoin previously built with Bridge infrastructure.
Bridge operates as a stablecoin issuer in M0's network with moonpay, supporting custom, interoperable stablecoin creation for fintech builders.
Cascade announces as the first autonomous neo-brokerage powered by Bridge (Stablecoin), offering unified accounts for stocks, crypto, borrowing/leverage with direct bank connections.
Plasma announces partnership with Bridge (Stablecoin).
Integrated Privy's wallet infrastructure via Stripe for stablecoin products, alongside Zerohash and Coinbase for custodial wallet features; added GBP on and offramps via virtual accounts for stablecoin-based payroll, payouts, remittances, and treasury workflows.
Klarna launches stablecoin-linked cards on Tempo with Visa, supporting USDC and USDT, live in 18 countries, expanding to over 100 countries by end of 2026.
Subject to new restrictions under OCC's proposed rule implementing GENIUS Act, released 2026-02-25, targeting white-label stablecoin platforms and prohibiting stablecoin issuers from paying yield or interest to holders.
Issued USDsui stablecoin on Sui mainnet on March 4, 2026, in collaboration with Stripe, featuring fiat-backing, yield-sharing, and interoperability across Phantom, Hyperliquid, and MetaMask, designed around the GENIUS Act for regulatory compliance.
Bridge launches as a verified, compliant messaging platform for institutional crypto communications.
SEPA account access is restricted for six EU countries (Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovenia) but remains available in higher-risk jurisdictions including Venezuela, Angola, Belize, Congo, Honduras, and Laos.
Bridge faces significant U.S. regulatory limitations, unable to legally serve 24+ states including major markets like California, New York, and Texas due to Money Transmitter License restrictions.
FraxNet built their neobank platform using Bridge's orchestration infrastructure over the past few months, with continued collaboration planned in the payment stablecoin arena.
New stablecoins are being built as wrappers on the bridge infrastructure.
Acquired by Stripe for $1.1 billion in 2025 to own the issuance layer alongside Tempo's settlement layer, with Meta stablecoin integration in 2026.
Stablecoin sponsors CoinDesk media network.
Stripe Bridge launches Open Issuance, a new platform enabling businesses to launch and manage their own stablecoins.