Nobody remembers the day HTTP became the standard.
The protocols that last disappear into everything built on them. @WalletConnect already did that with wallet logins and transaction signing, in connections most users never think about.
WalletConnect Pay brings the same approach to checkout. Customers pay with stablecoin and crypto from the wallet they already use. Merchants connect once and settle in #stablecoin or fiat, or $WCT with sanctions and IP screening and Travel Rule capture inside the payment.
The goal is a payment layer people stop noticing.
Adoption decides the rest.
