Stripe launches new products to drive stablecoins and agentic commerce

Stripe has introduced Open Issuance from Bridge, enabling businesses to launch and manage their own stablecoins with minimal code through the platform that Stripe acquired for $1.1 billion in 2024.

The product allows companies to mint, burn, and customise token reserves programmatically, lowering the barrier to stablecoin issuance from a complex financial engineering project to an API integration. Businesses can create branded stablecoins backed by reserves they control, with the operational infrastructure handled by Bridge's platform.

Open Issuance represents the deepest integration of Bridge's capabilities into Stripe's product suite since the acquisition. While Stripe's earlier stablecoin products focused on enabling businesses to accept and hold existing stablecoins, Open Issuance enables them to create new ones.

The product targets use cases including corporate treasury operations, loyalty programmes, marketplace settlements, and cross-border payment corridors where issuing a purpose-built stablecoin can be more efficient than using existing options. Companies can configure their stablecoin's reserve structure, compliance rules, and distribution parameters through Bridge's APIs.

The launch further develops the agentic commerce capabilities Stripe has been building, as AI agents increasingly need programmable digital currencies to execute autonomous financial transactions. Stablecoins issued through Open Issuance can be integrated into agent-driven payment workflows.

Stripe said Open Issuance is available to businesses globally through its existing platform, with compliance and reserve management handled within Bridge's regulatory framework.