Stripe is reportedly paying $7B+ for OpenRouter, which meters millions of sub-cent AI charges against prepaid deposits -- with no blockchain involved. Tempo, the payments chain Stripe co-built for exactly this, collected $5.34 in fees over the past 24 hours. Would the OpenRouter acquisition be a hedge on Stripe's stablecoin micropayments bet? Read more here" https://thedefiant.io/news/tradfi-and-fintech/stripe-openrouter-deal-micropayments-without-blockchain(The Defiant)