#StablecoinPayments Today’s payment landscape is dominated by gatekeepers that charge high fees that cut into the profitability of every business they touch, and justify those fees in the name of ubiquity and convenience — while they stifle competition and limit the creativity of builders.

Stablecoins can do better.

Stablecoins offer lower fees, more payment provider competition, and wider accessibility. Because stablecoins reduce the cost of transactions to nearly zero, they can free businesses from the friction of existing alternatives. Adoption will start with the businesses that are most harmed by the current payment options, a process that would disrupt the payments industry.

Stablecoins are already the cheapest way to send a dollar. In the last month, 28.5M unique stablecoin users sent over 600M transactions. Stablecoin users live in nearly every country and use stablecoins because they provide a safe, cheap, and inflation-resistant way to save and spend. Besides cash and gold, stablecoins are the only widely adopted payment rail that operates without gatekeepers like banks, payment networks, or central banks. At the same time, stablecoins are permissionlessly programmable, extensible, and integrable — anyone can help build the stablecoin payments platform on top of stablecoin payment rails.