# payments

#Stablecoin payments at the point of sale are live.
#Ingenico 700+ wallets. Android terminals. Not a pilot — production.
But here's the part worth paying attention to:
A merchant in Paris accepting $USDC ‌ from a foreign card settles instantly.
No FX spread. No 3-day clearing. No 2-4% lost on conversion.
That's not a crypto story.
That's a margin story.
Merchants lose billions annually to cross-border payment friction.
Stablecoins don't replace cash — they replace the correspondent banking chain for international transactions.
The technology was always ready.
The question was whether the te

$SOL Solana now supports Stripe & Tempo’s Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)
Enables stablecoin payments on Solana via SDK—built for agentic payment rails
#Solana #Stripe #Payments