Stablecoins are no longer a side project for crypto-native companies, they’re turning into serious payment rails for global business. I sit down with Anna Kratky Strebl, CEO of Confirmo Group, to unpack what stablecoin payments look like when you move past hype and start solving real problems: accepting funds from customers worldwide, sending mass payouts to contractors and traders, and reducing the mess of maintaining countless local payment methods.

Anna shares her path from working in international trade for the British government to helping grow Confirmo from a small Bitcoin-focused product into a global stablecoin infrastructure provider. We talk candidly about what changed when stablecoins entered the stack: near-instant settlement, low fees, and far less volatility than Bitcoin, which unlocks product-market fit for digital platforms and even large e-commerce players. We also get into the uncomfortable truth that consumer checkout UX is still hard to beat, while stablecoin payouts are exploding because cross-border disbursements remain slow and expensive on traditional rails.

Regulation is a big part of the story. We cover why compliance is becoming a competitive edge, how Europe’s MiCA framework is reshaping vendors, and what transaction monitoring means on pseudo-anonymous blockchains. Then we look forward: agentic payments, AI in fintech, microtransactions, and why machine-to-machine commerce may force the payments industry to adopt programmable money faster than most teams expect.

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