Ripple executive Reece Merrick said crypto payments are moving through the same early stage that e-commerce faced more than two decades ago.
Summary
- Merrick says crypto payments resemble early e-commerce before infrastructure made online shopping normal for consumers.
- Stablecoins, on-ramps and scalable blockchains now serve as payment infrastructure, similar to broadband and smartphones.
- Recent Ripple coverage shows payment growth, but XRP demand remains separate from ledger adoption.
He compared today’s crypto payment market with online retail in 2000, when internet shopping made up only a tiny part of global retail sales.
“In 2000, the dot-com bubble was…
