Subscriptions have never worked with stablecoins. Until now, stablecoin payments have been strictly one-shot: a user signs a transaction, funds move, done. Everything a subscription consists of, including recurring billing cycles, retry logic, and involuntary churn recovery, simply didn't exist on-chain. Anyone who's worked in payments knows this is where the real complexity lives, and it's exactly the layer crypto never built.
Enter Confirmo - a MiCA-licensed stablecoin payment platform that has powered crypto payments for over 12 years, helping businesses in 141 countries accept, settle, and disburse stablecoins at scale.
With their newest product, Confirmo Subscribe, they are bringing recurring payments to stablecoins. For the first time, a merchant can bill a customer in stablecoins on a schedule, and a customer can subscribe with either an exchange account or any of 700+ self-custody wallets, the latter via WalletConnect.
That distinction matters more than it might seem.
The subscription economy has a payments problem
The global subscription economy is on track to hit $1.2 trillion by 2030. But a meaningful chunk of that revenue leaks every month through failed payments - expired cards, insufficient funds, bank declines. For SaaS companies and subscription platforms with a global customer base, the problem is worse - cross-border card transactions carry higher failure rates and fees that eat into margins before revenue even hits the books.
Stablecoins fix the structural issues. Priced in USD, they remove currency volatility for merchants. They clear without the card network overhead. And once a customer approves a subscription, payments pull automatically from their wallet on each billing date - no re-authentication, no manual retries, no chase emails.
700 million people hold digital assets. Most of them have a wallet preference.
More than 700 million people, around 8.5% of the global population, now hold digital assets. However, these users aren't sitting on a single wallet or platform. Some use exchanges. Some use MetaMask. Some use a hardware wallet. Some use a mobile wallet they downloaded because it supports their preferred chain.
Merchant infrastructure that only accepts one or two wallets is leaving most of that market on the table.
This is where WalletConnect comes in. By integrating WalletConnect, Confirmo Subscribe gives merchants access to over 700 wallets in a single integration, without having to negotiate direct support for each one. A customer using any WalletConnect-compatible wallet can subscribe, approve the payment, and get on with their day. The merchant doesn't have to care which wallet that was.
It's the same principle that made card acceptance work at scale: you don't ask the customer to use your bank. You connect to the network they're already on.
Built for real merchant needs
For merchants, subscriptions aren't a payment feature, they're the business model. Recurring revenue is what makes growth predictable and planning possible. Until now, stablecoins couldn't participate in this. Subscribe by Confirmo changes that: stablecoins stop being a one-off checkout option and become an engine for recurring revenue.
And it's built to run like one. For merchants already using Confirmo, subscription activity appears in the same dashboard alongside every other payment product with one view for all stablecoin revenue.
Subscribe launches on leading chains including Solana and Polygon, with support for stablecoins including USDC (Circle) and USDG (Paxos). Both are fast and low-cost, which matters when you're billing thousands of customers every month and don't want infrastructure fees to eat the margin you gained by leaving the card networks behind.