London, UK – June 2, 2026 – Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, announced today at Money20/20 Europe a new stablecoin acceptance capability, powered by Coinbase Payments, Coinbase’s payments infrastructure platform. The capability allows eligible enterprise merchants to accept stablecoin payments from consumers, giving them more ways to capture global demand and meet growing customer appetite for digital money.
Stablecoins joins cards, bank transfers, digital wallets, and local payment methods, giving merchants and customers more choice in how value moves through the global financial system. Analysis from McKinsey and Artemis shows that real-world stablecoin payments volume doubled in 2025 to $390 billion, a sign that demand is moving well beyond early experimentation.
The launch marks the next step in Checkout.com’s stablecoin strategy: building a practical connection between traditional payment infrastructure and digital money movement. With clearer regulatory frameworks emerging in key markets – from the MiCA Regulation in Europe to the GENIUS Act in the US – and stronger institutional participation, stablecoins have moved from experimentation into practical enterprise use cases.
For consumers, this provides another way to pay online – particularly in markets where access to cards is uneven, local currencies are volatile, or shoppers already hold digital dollars. For merchants, it opens access to new demand without adding operational complexity, through the infrastructure they already trust.
“Stablecoins are becoming a real way for people to pay, and our job is to make accepting them effortless for merchants. We’re adding this to a network already trusted to move billions in payments – so merchants get a new way to capture consumer preference on top of the performance they rely on, not instead of it,” said Meron Colbeci, Chief Product Officer, Checkout.com
“Stablecoins are no longer a future use case – they’re a practical tool for how global commerce moves money today. We’re excited to partner with Checkout.com because they’re solving real problems for enterprise merchants at scale,” said Alec Lovett, Head of Infrastructure Products at Coinbase.
“Coinbase brings enterprise-ready payments product experience built on top of our regulated institutional product suite – including custody, fiat fails, and 24/7 access to USDC.”
About Checkout.com
Checkout.com processes payments for thousands of companies that shape the digital economy. Our global digital payments network supports over 145 currencies and delivers high-performance payment solutions across the world, processing billions of transactions annually. In 2025, Checkout.com processed more than $300bn in ecommerce payments volume.
We help enterprise merchants boost acceptance rates, combat fraud, and turn payments into a major revenue driver. Headquartered in London and with 19 offices worldwide, Checkout.com is trusted by leading brands such as Spotify, HelloFresh, eBay, Uber, Pinterest, Vinted, Klarna, Financial Times, and Sony.
Checkout.com. Where the world checks out.
About Coinbase
Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) is on a mission to increase economic freedom in the world. The most trusted crypto platform, Coinbase stores more digital assets than any other company and is building the everything exchange — one place to access crypto, equities, derivatives, prediction markets, and more. Coinbase serves consumers through its suite of financial apps, institutions through Coinbase Prime, and developers through the Coinbase Developer Platform. Every experience runs on Coinbase’s full-stack platform powering the future of finance: secure custody, deep exchange liquidity, stablecoin infrastructure, and global settlement rails — all built on a decade-plus foundation of security and compliance.
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