Stable CEO on Building a Venmo-Simple Payments Network on Crypto Rails

Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable, joins CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie and Eleanor Terrett at Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul to explain the design choices behind the chain—including why it made USDT its native gas token. That decision lowers friction for users who already hold dollars on-chain, removing the need to acquire a separate token just to move funds. Mehler then walks through StablePay, the company's consumer app, which aims to move dollars with Venmo-like simplicity and zero peer-to-peer fees. He makes the case for a consumer-first product in a market crowded with enterprise tools, arguing that everyday payments—not institutional infrastructure—are where adoption will be won. He also details Stable's new Mesh Alliance integration for prediction-market on-ramping. Finally, Mehler maps the regions driving growth, with Asia at the center of the company's expansion strategy, and explains why those markets are adopting dollar-based crypto payments faster than others.