Stripe’s Trillion-Dollar Bet: How Stablecoins Eat Global Payments | Founder of Bridge Zach Abrams

Zach Abrams—co-founder of Bridge, acquired by Stripe—joins Ryan to unpack Stripe’s stablecoin strategy and why tokenized dollars are poised to devour global payments.

We cover Bridge’s sale to Stripe, how “fiat L1 / stablecoin L2” rails unlock faster, cheaper cross-border payouts (from startups to government aid), the case for many issuer- and app-specific stablecoins with better yield sharing, and what the Tempo chain targets for payment-scale throughput, privacy, and finality.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

6:28 Zach’s Founder Arc

15:47 Fintech x Crypto Convergence

18:55 Founding Bridge in the Dark Times

22:42 Traditional Payment Inefficiencies

26:21 Bridge 101

42:00 Traditional Bank Pushback

42:17 Stablecoin Treasuries

50:22 Post-Genius Stablecoin Market

59:27 Fintech in 5 years

1:05:01 Tempo L1

1:13:30 Too Many Blockchains

1:17:25 Exiting TradFi

1:20:49 Getting Stablecoins to Trillions

1:25:28 Stripe x Crypto

1:29:44 AI Stablecoin Users

1:32:32 Closing & Disclaimers

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RESOURCES

Zach Abrams

https://x.com/zcabrams

Tempo

https://tempo.xyz/

Bridge

https://www.bridge.xyz/

Stripe

https://stripe.com/

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