Crypto payments
Learn about accepting payments in crypto and stablecoins.
Crypto payments allow you to accept digital currencies, particularly stablecoins, from customers around the world. Customers can pay with their preferred crypto wallet, token, and payment network, while completed crypto payments settle in your Stripe balance in USD.
Payment flow 
When customers select the crypto payment method, they’re redirected to crypto.link.com to connect their crypto wallet and complete the transaction.
Customer selects Crypto payment option at checkout
Customer is redirected to Link to connect a crypto wallet and select a currency and payment network
Customer gets notification that the payment is complete
(Optional) Customer is redirected back to the merchant site for confirmation
Get started
You don’t have to integrate Crypto and other payment methods individually. If you use our front-end products, Stripe automatically determines the most relevant payment methods to display. Go to the Stripe Dashboard and enable Crypto. To get started with one of our hosted UIs, follow a quickstart:
Other payment products
The following Stripe products also let you add Crypto from the Dashboard:
Learn more about how to accept stablecoin payments.
Disputes
The risk of fraud or unrecognized payments is low because the customer must authenticate the payment with their bank. As a result, you won’t have disputes that turn into chargebacks, with funds withdrawn from your Stripe account.
Refunds
To issue a refund, follow the refund flow. For crypto payments, the refund goes back as stablecoins in the customer’s original wallet.
Billing
Use Stripe Billing to create crypto-supported invoices and subscriptions. Crypto invoices and subscriptions only support the send_ collection method.
Connect support
Connect platforms can accept crypto payments for all charge types. The connected account associated with the charge must have the crypto_ capability active.
Connected accounts with full Stripe Dashboard access can enable crypto as a payment method in their Dashboard, the same way they enable other payment method capabilities.
For connected accounts without full access to the Stripe Dashboard, including Express and Custom accounts, you must first request access to crypto payments by reaching out to stablecoin-payments@stripe.com. After we enable access, you can request the crypto_ capability for them using the API or from their account details page in your platform Dashboard.
To see which connected accounts have enabled Crypto, check whether their crypto_ capability is set to active in the Account object’s capabilities hash.