Stripe Annual Open Letter: $1.9 Trillion in Payment Transactions in 2025, Launching Tempo Mainnet

SmartContractAuditor · 2026-02-25T04:56:19+00:00

Stripe revealed in its 2025 annual letter that its platform transaction volume reached $1.9 trillion, a 34% year-over-year increase. Stripe acquired Privy and Metronome, and monitored stablecoin payments doubling to $4 million. The blockchain Tempo, incubated in partnership with Paradigm, is currently in testing. Meanwhile, Stripe and OpenAI launched a new payment protocol supporting over 81,000 businesses for financing, with plans to continue leveraging AI to optimize transactions in the future.

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2026-02-25 04:56:19

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Odaily Planet Daily reports that Stripe released its 2025 annual letter on X platform, stating that last year, its platform’s total transaction volume reached $1.9 trillion, a 34% increase year-over-year, accounting for approximately 1.6% of global GDP. Stripe has acquired Privy, which supports 110 million programmable wallets, and Metronome, a usage-based billing company.

According to Stripe’s monitoring, the transaction volume of stablecoin payments in 2025 doubled to about $4 million, with 60% of these transactions being B2B. Stripe and Paradigm co-founded the dedicated payment blockchain Tempo, which is currently being tested by organizations such as Visa, Nubank, and Shopify, with its mainnet launching soon. Additionally, Stripe and OpenAI developed the Agent Commercial Protocol (ACP) and introduced a new primitive called Shared Payment Tokens, allowing agents to initiate payments without revealing credentials.

In terms of financing and credit, Stripe Capital supported over 81,000 businesses in 2025, with funding increasing by 45% year-over-year. Stripe stated it will continue to optimize each transaction using AI-driven tools like Radar and the Optimized Checkout Suite, and aims to be the best way to build businesses in the AI era.

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