Bridge

Acquired by Stripe · 2025 · $1.1B

Stablecoin orchestration platform that provided APIs for businesses to move money globally using stablecoins; acquired by Stripe in 2025 for $1.1B. Acquired by Stripe for $1.1B (Feb 2025). Clients included SpaceX, Coinbase, and Bitso. Transaction volume quadrupled in 2025 under Stripe.

Bridge's $1.1B acquisition by Stripe is the largest crypto acquisition ever and validated stablecoin orchestration as a standalone category worth investing in.

bridge.xyz Stablecoin Infrastructure

United Statesacquired

At a glance

Total raised

$1.1B

last round acquired

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

San Francisco

United States

Founded

2022

4 years active

Status

Acquired

by Stripe

Patents on file

USPTO grants

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Funding history

Total raised

$1.1B

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Acquired

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Oct 20, 2024	Acquired	$1.1B	—	Stripe
Aug 29, 2024	Series A	$40M	—	Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital

Founder backgrounds

Sean Yu

Co-founder & CTO

Co-founded Bridge after building payments infrastructure at Square (now Block) and Uber, where he focused on financial systems and money movement at scale. He studied computer engineering at the University of Waterloo. As CTO, he led the engineering team building Bridge's stablecoin orchestration platform — APIs that let businesses send, receive, and hold stablecoins globally — before Stripe acquired the company in 2025 for $1.1B.

Zach Abrams

Co-founder & CEO

Previously co-founded Evenly, a peer-to-peer payments company acquired by Coinbase, where he then joined as an early employee in product and growth roles. His work on crypto payments at Coinbase, combined with earlier product experience at Airbnb and Square, directly informed the thesis behind Bridge — building API-first infrastructure to let businesses move money globally using stablecoins. Bridge was acquired by Stripe in 2025 for $1.1B.

AI bull / bear

Bull case

Bridge under Stripe becomes the default settlement rail for global commerce. The acquisition gave Stripe instant access to a stablecoin orchestration layer that had already won SpaceX, Coinbase, and Bitso as customers — proof the product works at extreme scale and speed. Transaction volume quadrupled in 2025, signaling that Stripe's distribution engine is accelerating adoption faster than Bridge could have achieved independently. Stripe's existing merchant base of millions now has a native on/off-ramp between fiat and stablecoins, bypassing slow correspondent banking. The $1.1B price — the largest crypto acquisition ever — looks cheap if stablecoin settlement becomes a core Stripe product line rather than an experiment. With US stablecoin legislation advancing and global demand for dollar-denominated stablecoins surging, Bridge sits at the intersection of regulatory tailwinds and Stripe's unmatched payments infrastructure. No competitor has both the API maturity and the embedded distribution that the combined entity now commands.

Bear case

The acquisition's promise unravels if stablecoin orchestration proves to be a feature, not a standalone business. Stripe paid $1.1B for a category that may simply collapse into existing payments infrastructure once incumbents like Visa, Mastercard, and bank-led networks launch their own stablecoin settlement layers. Bridge's pre-acquisition client roster was impressive but narrow — concentrated in crypto-native firms that were already sold on stablecoins, not the mainstream merchants Stripe needs to convert. The Venezuela sanctions scare, even if Bridge denies involvement, signals the permanent compliance burden that stablecoin rail operators face. One enforcement action could freeze growth for quarters. Meanwhile, Circle's USDC ecosystem and emergent Layer-2 settlement networks on Ethereum and Solana offer businesses direct, disintermediated access to stablecoin rails — no Bridge middleware required. If Stripe cannot make Bridge's APIs indispensable before the market routes around them, the $1.1B write-down will become a cautionary tale.

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In the news

CoinDesk5/6/2026
Dominance of Tether and Circle is a net bad for stablecoins, says Bridge executive
Bridge executive argues market concentration among Tether and Circle threatens stablecoin ecosystem health.

Leadership

Zach Abrams

Co-founder & CEO

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Sean Yu

Co-founder & CTO

Products

Bridge Orchestration APIs
Bridge Orchestration APIs provide businesses with a unified payment gateway to move money globally using stablecoins. The platform enables seamless onramping and offramping between fiat and stablecoins, cross-border transfers that settle in seconds, and currency conversion at competitive rates. It handles all regulatory, compliance, and technical complexities so developers can integrate stablecoin payments into existing flows of funds without managing blockchain infrastructure directly.
Bridge Issuance
Bridge Issuance (Open Issuance) enables any business to launch its own fully-backed custom stablecoin. Bridge handles reserve management, compliance, and infrastructure while the issuer retains control over design choices like reserve allocation and blockchain support. Issuers earn revenue from stablecoin origination rewards and can distribute their stablecoin across Bridge and Stripe's onramp products, accessing a network of interoperable stablecoins that share liquidity.
Bridge Cards
Bridge Cards allow businesses to provision physical or virtual cards backed by stablecoins that can be spent anywhere in the world. The card product integrates with Bridge's orchestration and wallet infrastructure, enabling companies to issue cards funded by stablecoin balances without needing to manage card network relationships or BIN sponsorship directly. This enables faster, lower-cost spending of digital dollars at traditional merchants.
Bridge Wallets
Bridge Wallets provide custody infrastructure for businesses to store, send, and receive stablecoins and fiat funds. The wallet system integrates with Bridge's virtual accounts, which allow companies to accept deposits in USD, EUR, GBP, MXN and more using unique account and routing numbers. Wallets serve as the foundational layer for moving funds between fiat and crypto rails within the Bridge ecosystem.

Most recent patents

42 patents on file, but none with both an extractable figure and an abstract on Google Patents yet.

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