The video explains how over 1,000 enterprise merchants can now accept USDC and USDT without becoming crypto companies, thanks to a partnership between Coinbase, Checkout.com, and Fireblocks. Checkout.com provides its vast merchant network and existing payment rails, Coinbase supplies the stablecoin acceptance infrastructure, and Fireblocks offers settlement, compliance, and 24/7 payout capabilities. The speaker cites Visa data (10.2 trillion USD stablecoin volume in 12 months, +63% YoY) and McKinsey data ($390 billion real‑world stablecoin volume in 2025) to illustrate rapid growth. Fireblocks supports 800+ wallet types across multiple chains, enabling low‑cost (≈0.5%) stablecoin pay‑ins versus 2‑3% card fees, eliminating chargebacks, and allowing settlements outside banking hours. The narrative emphasizes that stablecoins succeed when they become invisible, integrated payment plumbing rather than a distinct crypto product, marking a shift from trading to real‑world payments and a scaling phase in 2026.
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So now we have 1,000+ enterprise merchants now able to accept stablecoins. Stablecoins are not winning because every merchant wants a crypto checkout button. They're winning because companies like Checkout.com are making stablecoins invisible. On June 2nd, Coinbase and Checkout.com announced that eligible merchants in Checkout.com's network of more than 1,000 enterprise customers can now accept USDC and USDT. The merchant does not have to become a crypto company They can still settle in US dollars through Checkout.com's existing payment rails. They don't need private keys, no custom wallet builds, no giant crypto accounting mess just to test the stablecoin payments. They could just turn the feature on. Coinbase brings the stablecoin payment infrastructure. Checkout.com brings the enterprise merchant network. And the merchant gets another payment method inside the system it already uses. Coinbase actually cited Visa's data showing stablecoin transaction volume Hitting 10.2 trillion over the last 12 months, up 63% year over year. That's faster than AI adoption. Checkout.com cited McKenzie's data, saying real-world stablecoin payment volume doubled in 2025 to $390 billion. Stablecoins are moving from trading into actual payments in real world. Checkout.com announced the second piece with Fireblocks themselves. Eligible U.S. enterprise merchants can receive settlement funds as stablecoins to their preferred wallet through 24/7, 365-day-a-year rail. Fireblocks is the infrastructure partner, and Checkout.com said Fireblocks has secured more than $14 trillion in digital asset transactions. These are 2 layers of adoption here. Let me explain. First play is a customer pays with USDC or USDT. The second is the payout. The merchant can now settle in stablecoins outside normal banking hours. That creates a new money loop. Stablecoins can come in, move through the treasury systems, and go out without waiting for bank cutoff times. Checkout.com has been testing this for years. Back in 2022, it said it had already facilitated more than $300 million in USDC settlement during a private beta. So in 2026, this is the actual scaling phase. Fireblocks also shows why this took so long. Stablecoin payments need wallet support, chain support, conversion, compliance, sanction checks, travel rule workflows, and reconciliation. Fireblocks Flow says it supports more than 800 wallet types across EVM chains, Solana, Bitcoin, and major exchanges. It also says stablecoin pay-ins can cost around 0.5% compared to 2-3% for card processing, while removing chargeback risk completely. This is why merchants care, not because of crypto ideology, because of fees, cash flow, settlement speed, and fewer chargebacks. The real story is simple. Coinbase handles the acceptance. Fireblocks handles settlement and compliance and infrastructure. Checkout.com turns it into a normal enterprise payment product. Stablecoins win when they stop looking like crypto and they start looking like faster payment plumbing.
