SpaceX uses Bridge to repatriate Starlink revenue via stablecoins, says Abrams
Zach Abrams · Stablecoin special: Zach Abrams (Bridge) and Henri Stern (Privy) · Nov 4, 2025 · at 8:25
Bridge co-founder Zach Abrams discusses real-world enterprise adoption of stablecoin infrastructure with Stripe co-founder John Collison.
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“SpaceX came to us, they're selling Starlink all over the world. And so as a result, they're collecting local, so people are paying for Starlink and, you know, dozens, many dozens of different countries with their cards. So they're getting local currencies in all these countries, and they need to repatriate all those funds to the US because they fund their business out of the US. And so they started using us to bring currencies back to the U.S. And so they would take money out of a bunch of different countries in Africa and LATAM and send it to the U.S. Via stablecoins.”
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