"Delivery with coins too"...DoorDash announces stablecoin payments

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Delivery platform DoorDash announced that it has partnered with Tempo blockchain to introduce stablecoin payment infrastructure.

According to crypto media outlet Cointelegraph on April 22 (local time), Tempo blockchain announced that it is building a stablecoin-based payment infrastructure for users, delivery drivers, and merchants with DoorDash. This integration aims to improve settlement speed, reduce cross-border costs, and expand transaction flexibility, with users in over 40 countries targeted for application.

Andy Wang, co-founder of DoorDash, said, "If we can pay merchants and dashers faster and lower the cost of that process, it's a natural choice for the entire ecosystem." Cointelegraph pointed out that this move is a significant case of a major delivery app officially adopting digital asset payment rails into its daily settlement system.

Tempo introduced this announcement not as a standalone DoorDash project but as part of a stablecoin expansion strategy being pursued with Stripe, Paradigm, Coastal Bank, and ARQ. The competition for stablecoin infrastructure is also accelerating across the payment industry. Cointelegraph reported that Stripe agreed to acquire the stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion in 2024, Mastercard decided to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK for $1.8 billion last March, and Visa further expanded its support for stablecoin settlement platforms last July.

In its earnings announcement last February, DoorDash stated that its total orders for Q4 2025 were 903 million, with a total order value of $29.7 billion. The company is scheduled to announce its Q1 2026 earnings on May 6. This announcement by DoorDash, a large-scale real-world payment platform, to adopt stablecoin settlement infrastructure, reconfirms the trend of stablecoins expanding beyond speculative assets to actual commercial payment methods.

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