Crypto payment gateways in 2026 look very different from two years ago.
Here are the trends we think are worth following:
1. Stablecoins are becoming the default. Visa's stablecoin settlement went from around $7B annualized in March to over $20B by September, per reports.
2. Stripe, PayPal and Shopify are building crypto into checkout.
3. Card and crypto are blending into one checkout.
4. AI agents are starting to pay, mostly small machine payments for now.
5. Fees are drifting toward 0.5% to 1.5%, against a ~2.9% card baseline.
6. Compliance is moving into the product.
And the hype to ignore: "500 coins supported", meme-coin checkout and "agents replace checkout next quarter".
Full breakdown (FaradPay is a gateway, so we say where we fit):
https://faradpay.com/blog/crypto-payment-gateways-trends
#CryptoPayments #Stablecoins #Fintech #PaymentGateway #FaradPay
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