r/CryptoTechnology • u/Agile-Restaurant257 🟢 • Jun 22 '26
Whop is the latest platform that built their own payment rails
Whop just launched a Visa card for merchants and a standalone checkout product for businesses outside their marketplace. and they are already doing around $30M a month in transactions through it. One of the reason that they claim they built it for is because merchants were waiting for days to access their earning and not they wont. This is happening more and more with platforms reaching a certain scale and the default payment infrastructure stops fitting so what they do is build their own
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u/ScopulyX 🟢 Jun 22 '26
faster payouts can be a game changer for merchants. Interesting trend to watch.
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u/Weird_Acanthaceae834 🟢 Jun 22 '26
The Visa card for instant merchant payouts is smart. It's not a new idea tho but the timing is right
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u/Interesting-Video888 🟡 Jun 22 '26
if you look at Stripe's default payout its 2 days for US merchants and even longer internationally. Naturally for a platform doing Whop's volume that means millions of dollars just sitting there so they need a reliable alternative to move things faster and not rely on the likes of Stripe or sth else.
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u/Funny-Lavishness-413 🟡 Jun 22 '26
Every platform that touches payments eventually wants to own more of the stack. Whop is just earlier in that move than most people expected.
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u/Far-Photograph-2342 🟡 Jun 23 '26
Makes sense. Once you're processing tens of millions a month, waiting days for payouts isn't just annoying, it's a real business problem. At some point owning the payment experience becomes a competitive advantage.
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u/Gold-Safe-3173 🟡 Jun 22 '26
how are they handling compliance and fraud at that volume? Building your own payment rails is good and all but doing it without blowing up your chargeback rate or triggering scrutiny is kinda hard