not only acquiring Bridge giving breadth and scale, Stripe positions itself ahead of competitors like FIS, Fiserv, and Worldpay in the stablecoin space - move might encourage other major payment providers to explore similar technologies, potentially accelerating the overall development of blockchain-based payment solutions - it can also be a play for BaaS and lending services ... points to massive potential of financial services moving to cloud ... challenge will remain on security (always).
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