Stripe’s Trillion-Dollar Bet: How Stablecoins Eat Global Payments | Founder of Bridge Zach Abrams

In this episode of Bankless, Ryan interviews Zach Abrams, who leads the crypto transformation at Stripe, about the convergence of fintech and crypto, focusing on stablecoins and their potential to revolutionize financial systems. Zach shares his journey from auto parts to fintech and crypto, highlighting the founding of Bridge, a stablecoin payment platform acquired by Stripe. The discussion covers the challenges and opportunities in the crypto space, the role of stablecoins in facilitating faster and cheaper money movement, and the future of finance with tokenized assets and blockchain technology. They also explore the potential for fintech companies to integrate crypto wallets and the emergence of layer-one solutions like Tempo to address payment scale challenges.