Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain
Stripe has finalized an agreement to buy AI model gateway OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Stripe has finalized an agreement to buy AI model gateway OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter.
• OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe.
• Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.
• Tempo recorded 80,388 transactions over 24 hours, with $38.79 million TVL and $53.12 million stablecoin supply; Morpho Blue is the largest protocol with $30.38 million locked.
• OpenRouter's homepage listed 200 trillion monthly tokens, 10 million users, more than 80 providers and more than 500 models.
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