Stripe said in its 2025 annual letter that it has reached a $159 billion valuation through a new employee liquidity tender, while reporting $1.9 trillion in total payment volume for the year.
The tender will provide liquidity to current and former employees. Most of the capital will come from investors including Thrive Capital, Coatue, and Andreessen Horowitz, while Stripe will also use a portion of its own balance sheet to repurchase shares.
Stripe said businesses on its platform generated $1.9 trillion in payments in 2025, up 34% from the prior year and equivalent to roughly 1.6% of global GDP. The company remained profitable, according to the letter, while expanding beyond core payments into financial software and infrastructure.
Stablecoin volume doubled to about $400 billion in 2025, reflecting increased use for business payments and settlement. Stripe’s acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge contributed to that growth, with Bridge volume more than quadrupling during the year.
Stripe also unveiled Tempo, a payments-focused blockchain incubated with Paradigm, designed for high throughput, sub-second finality, and compliance-ready infrastructure. Companies including Visa, Nubank, Shopify, and Klarna are testing global payout and settlement use cases on the network.
The letter highlighted what Stripe called agentic commerce, outlining five levels of AI-driven purchasing that range from automated checkout flows to fully autonomous buying decisions.
Stripe said it partnered with OpenAI to enable shopping inside ChatGPT and is working with Microsoft to integrate similar capabilities into Copilot. The company also launched shared payment tokens and an Agentic Commerce Suite aimed at standardizing AI-driven transactions across platforms.
Stripe’s Revenue suite, which includes Billing, Invoicing, and Tax products, is on track to reach a $1 billion annual run rate this year. Stripe Capital funding volume rose 45% year over year, supporting more than 81,000 businesses.
Source: https://cryptobriefing.com/stripe-liquidity-deal-159-billion/
