Crypto payments have always promised freedom. What they’ve lacked—until now—is frictionless familiarity.

At Token2049, Mesh didn’t just launch a new integration. It launched a moment. A turning point where crypto payments became indistinguishable from Apple Pay—and that’s exactly the point.

Crypto, but It Feels Like Apple

Swipe. Face ID. Done.

Mesh’s new system lets you pay with Bitcoin, ETH, or SOL, and the merchant receives stablecoins—without even realizing crypto was involved. Thanks to their SmartFunding architecture, what used to be a 7-step DeFi journey is now a checkout experience indistinguishable from a debit card swipe.

And that’s not just good UX. That’s how crypto becomes invisible in the best way—as secure and seamless as existing financial tools, only global, programmable, and open-source underneath.

A Message to the Market: Crypto Isn’t Waiting Anymore

“When crypto payments feel like fiat, mass adoption is inevitable,” said Mesh CEO Bam Azizi. And he’s not wrong.

Big banks didn’t solve this. Nor did central banks. A crypto infrastructure startup did—quietly, efficiently, and live-demoed in front of Web3’s sharpest audience.

And with $82M in new funding and over 300 live integrations, Mesh isn’t just building for DeFi natives. They’re building for the people who’ve never touched a wallet—but use Apple Pay daily.

The Dominoes Are Falling

Mesh is part of a bigger picture:

• Stripe is launching a stablecoin.
  
• PayPal has its own.
  
• Jack Dorsey is telling apps to integrate Bitcoin.
  
• Triple-A is onboarding PayPal stablecoins for merchant payments.
  

Mesh just connected crypto liquidity to consumer UX. And if you blink, you might miss the fact that payments are going Web3 under the hood—without a new login screen or a “connect wallet” button.

Final Word: The Real Revolution Isn’t the Chain — It’s the Checkout

Crypto didn’t need a killer app. It needed a killer checkout flow. Mesh might’ve just delivered it.

And in doing so, they proved something powerful: crypto wins not when it’s visible, but when it’s inevitable.