It's no secret that Stripe has doubled down on its cryptocurrency offerings, enabling crypto purchases in the EU in July and announcing its Pay with Crypto feature earlier this month. This week, the fintech giant further made its dedication clear with its biggest deal to date, acquiring stablecoin platform Bridge for an eye-watering $1.1 billion. Today on TechCrunch's Equity Podcast, hosts Kirsten Kolosek, Anthony Ha, and Devin Caldwee opened the show with their thoughts on the deal. Mainly how surprising it is that people will spend over $1 billion on cryptocurrencies in 2024.
But of course, there was a lot more startup and venture news for our staff to cover this week. Listen to the full episode to hear:
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