alt Hacker NewsOpenRouter uses Stripe to handle payments [1], so this acquisition hopefully will reduce OpenRouter's cost while increasing Stripe's revenue.
Replies
toomuchtodo • today at 8:59 PM
Stripe seems to appear to be attempting to compete with the US Federal Reserve as the core dollar payment processor while also dipping into the same for tokens. Core value exchange platform, dollars, tokens, whatever. A bit of a less exciting version of Dune. “The transaction volume must flow.”
> Every company in the Forbes AI 50 that monetizes does so on Stripe.
That’s chilling.