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Paxos debuts new stablecoin payment platform with Stripe

Paxos’ goal is to support assets and chains based on customers’ interests and its own end-user preferences, the company said.

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Paxos, the blockchain firm behind the Pax Dollar stablecoin, is working to expand stablecoin adoption in the payments industry through its new enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Paxos has introduced its new stablecoin payments platform targeting payment service providers (PSP) and fintech companies that want to enable stablecoin payments.

On Oct. 15, Paxos announced that Stripe, a global payment processing company, would be the first PSP to integrate Paxos’ infrastructure into its system.

Paxos’ pay-ins workflow involves stablecoins and fiat. Source: Paxos

The infrastructure will be featured on Stripe’s Pay with Crypto product, which allows users to accept stablecoin payments settling in fiat currencies like the United States dollar.

A focus on payment providers

Paxos’ new stablecoin payment platform offers an application programming interface (API) infrastructure that aims to enable faster and lower-cost global payments compared to traditional payment rails.

“We’re currently focused on PSPs, fintechs and other providers who will be embedding this infrastructure into their systems, rather than individual merchant outreach, so specific merchant requirements are up to each provider,” a spokesperson for Paxos told Cointelegraph.

To use the platform, customers need to set up a wallet with Paxos. Merchants and PSPs can then choose whether to receive stablecoins or convert funds to fiat currency using Paxos.

Support for multiple stablecoins and US dollar

At launch, Paxos’ stablecoin platform supports conversions between the US dollar and three stablecoins: Pax Dollar (USDP), PayPal USD (PYUSD) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC).

The platform is currently available in the United States, and Paxos plans to expand beyond the US dollar in the future.

“Once set up, businesses can accept payments from anywhere, emphasizing the global power of this work,” a representative from Paxos told Cointelegraph, adding that the firm expects to expand beyond US dollar over time.

In the meantime, Stripe already supports pay-ins from more than 70 countries, the spokesperson noted.

Stripe’s payment network statistics. Source: Stripe

Once a stablecoin payment is received, users can either convert the funds to fiat or send stablecoins directly to merchants.

Merchants will be able to issue refunds by converting fiat into the stablecoin originally used and sending it directly to the wallet used in the initial payment. This solution supports PYUSD and USDP via onchain transfers through the Solana and Ethereum networks, as well as USDC via Ethereum, Solana and Polygon.

Related: Stripe’s new stablecoin option gains traction in 70 countries on day 1

“This is truly enterprise-grade infrastructure for payments, where Paxos brings our regulatory-first approach to the payment capabilities needed across onboarding, custody and money movement,” Paxos stated.

“Our goal is to keep adding assets and chains over time”

The stablecoin industry has been massively growing over the past few years, with the total market value of all stablecoins breaking $170 billion in September 2024.

The market capitalization of all stablecoins since January 2018. Source: CoinGecko

Tether, the operator of the largest stablecoin, USDt (USDT), posted a record-breaking $5.2 billion profit in the first half of 2024, and many industry firms have been rushing to introduce new stablecoins and related solutions.

According to Paxos, there is no right amount of stablecoins that should exist on the market. The company’s representative stated:

“Without respect to the right number, our goal is to keep adding assets and chains over time based on customers’ interests and their own end-user’s preferences.”

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This article first appeared at Cointelegraph.com News

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