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Stripe Partners With BlackRock and Fidelity for Stablecoin-Powered Financial Products
Stripe has unveiled Open Issuance, a new platform powered by Bridge—acquired by Stripe last year for $1.1 billion—that enables businesses to harness artificial intelligence and stablecoins to scale revenue.
Building Custom Stablecoins With Ease
Open Issuance allows companies to create, mint, and redeem their own stablecoins with just a few lines of code, opening new possibilities for agentic commerce. The announcement came during Stripe Tour New York, where the firm introduced more than 40 new products and features.
Treasuries on the platform will be managed by BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, and Superstate, while Lead Bank provides liquidity by holding cash. Notably, all tokens issued via Open Issuance are fully interoperable, with low-cost conversions available through Bridge’s orchestration API. Stripe also revealed that businesses can generate rewards from stablecoins they issue and use those rewards to incentivize customers.
Phantom has already launched CASH, the first stablecoin issued on the platform, while MetaMask’s mUSD and USDH for Hyperliquid by Native Markets are also set to debut.
Stripe Expands Into AI-Powered Commerce
Stripe emphasized its commitment to merging AI and financial infrastructure. Will Gaybrick, Stripe’s president of technology and business, said the company aims to move frontier technology “out of the experimental and into the mainstream.”
On September 29, Stripe partnered with OpenAI to introduce the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), which already powers Instant Checkout in ChatGPT. ACP enables a shared language between merchants and AI agents, giving businesses a single integration to sell through AI while retaining control. Early adopters include Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic, Perplexity, Replit, and others.
Seamless Stablecoin Payments and Hybrid Models
Stripe also announced that its Optimized Checkout Suite now supports stablecoin payments by default, allowing businesses to accept recurring payments, convert fiat, spend via issued cards, and send funds cross-border.
Additionally, the firm rolled out Stripe Billing, designed for hybrid models that combine subscriptions and usage-based pricing, and expanded Stripe Tax to 102 countries. Fraud prevention efforts have also been upgraded with Stripe Radar, now capable of blocking new abuse types such as free trial exploitation.
