Stripe 2025 Annual Letter: $1.9T in Payment Volume, Tempo Blockchain Mainnet Launch Imminent

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Stripe’s 2025 annual letter reveals $1.9 trillion in payment volume, a 34% year-over-year increase. The company acquired Privy and Metronome and reported that stablecoin volume doubled to $4 million. Stripe and Paradigm co-built Tempo, a blockchain news aggregator, with mainnet testing by Visa, Nubank, and Shopify. A token launch event is imminent. Stripe also partnered with OpenAI on Shared Payment Tokens for secure agent payments.

Odaily Planet Daily reports: In its 2025 annual letter posted on X, Stripe stated that its platform’s total transaction volume reached $1.9 trillion last year, a 34% year-over-year increase, accounting for approximately 1.6% of global GDP. Stripe has acquired Privy, which supports 110 million programmable wallets, and Metronome, a pay-as-you-go billing company.

According to Stripe’s monitoring, stablecoin payment transaction volume doubled in 2025 to approximately $4 million, with 60% coming from B2B transactions. Stripe, in collaboration with Paradigm, co-developed Tempo, a blockchain designed specifically for payments, which is currently being tested by institutions such as Visa, Nubank, and Shopify, with its mainnet set to launch soon. Additionally, Stripe has partnered with OpenAI to develop the Agent Commercial Protocol (ACP) and introduced a new primitive, Shared Payment Tokens, enabling agents to initiate payments without exposing credentials.

In terms of financing and credit, Stripe Capital supported over 81,000 businesses in 2025, with financing volume growing 45% year-over-year. Stripe stated it will continue to optimize every transaction through AI-driven tools such as Radar and the Optimized Checkout Suite, and remains committed to being the best way to build a business in the AI era.

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