> Cryptocurrency and stablecoins are also starting to see traction after an extended struggle to gain mainstream adoption, John Collison added, per the report.
> William Gaybrick, Stripe’s president of product and business, referred to agentic commerce and stablecoins as “twin revolutions in intelligence and money” at a company event in 2025, the report said.
Was this ever a thing?
I know individual investors get pretty crazy for blockchain, but I don't recall any major companies doing big investments.
At most, I was asked about it briefly, explained what the usecases were, and it never came up again.
stripe bought a stablecoin and its leadership seems to talk about it a lot https://www.pymnts.com/news/ipo/2026/stripe-co-founder-says-...
> Cryptocurrency and stablecoins are also starting to see traction after an extended struggle to gain mainstream adoption, John Collison added, per the report.
> William Gaybrick, Stripe’s president of product and business, referred to agentic commerce and stablecoins as “twin revolutions in intelligence and money” at a company event in 2025, the report said.
> Was this ever a thing?
At some point yes. Lots of large financial institutions had such projects. IBM e.g. was involved in quite a few of them.