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Powering the Future of Ecommerce: Introducing Coinbase Payments

Commerce is changing

Stablecoins are reshaping global commerce, and Coinbase is leading the charge with a major move into payments. Stablecoins processed $30 trillion in settlements last year – 3x growth year-over-year. They’re a faster, cheaper, more global way to move money – and the world is catching on. 

More than half of the Fortune 500 is building onchain, and a third of small businesses already use crypto. And yet, despite growing demand, stablecoin payments remain out of reach for most platforms – held back by fragmented tooling, technical overhead, and a lack of production-ready infrastructure. Coinbase Payments changes that. 

Coinbase Payments: Stablecoin payments without the complexity

Coinbase Payments is the first full-stack stablecoin payment solution built for commerce platforms at scale. It abstracts away the blockchain so you can offer crypto-native payments without needing crypto-native teams. We built it to power seamless USDC payments with faster settlement, lower fees, and global reach. 

This high-performance infrastructure is now live with Shopify, where we’re bringing USDC payments to millions of merchants with no additional setup required. Now, that same infrastructure is available to any platform that serves merchants.

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