Trip.com Overseas supports #USDT / #USDC stablecoins, quietly taking over real-world payments.

Many people are still debating whether stablecoins are just "narrative," but reality has already given the answer.
Trip.com Overseas has officially launched stablecoin payments for global users.
Supported assets:
👉 USDT / USDC
Supported blockchains:
👉 Ethereum, Tron, Polygon, Solana, Arbitrum One, TON
This is not a test page, not a grayscale.
It is real, usable, check-in ready, and boarding capable payments.
Real experience: 10 minutes to book a hotel with USDT
On December 24, 2025,
I downloaded Trip.com in Vietnam and successfully booked a Nha Trang hotel with USDT;
On December 25, I used USDT again to buy a flight from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City, payment succeeded, and check-in and travel were completed.
More importantly—
Lower prices.
✈️ Flights: about 18% cheaper than traditional payments
🏨 Hotels: approximately 2.35% savings
Stablecoins are not just "usable," but are already beginning to directly influence pricing systems.
Behind the payments: stablecoins are entering mainstream payment channels.
In the payment process, a company's presence is clearly visible:
Triple-A
A licensed crypto payment institution based in Singapore, providing stablecoin payment gateway and settlement services for Trip.com.
Its partners also include:
Grab (Southeast Asia super app)
GrabPay's crypto recharge channel
This indicates one thing:
Stablecoin payments are no longer fringe but are entering compliant financial infrastructure layers.
A severely underestimated detail: privacy
On Trip:
🏨 Hotel booking:
Just name + email
✈️ Flight purchase:
Only passport, nationality, phone (mandatory in aviation)
In other words,
In many consumption scenarios, stablecoin payments significantly reduce the platform's need to collect personal information.
Globally,
privacy and data security are now more important variables than "discounts."
Why is this happening now?
Just this month, Trip.com Group experienced a significant public trust shock.
And in overseas markets, users are far more sensitive to privacy, data, and cross-border information use than domestically.
Stablecoin payments happen to provide a solution:
No reliance on credit cards
No binding to complex identities
No deep intrusion into user data
A harsher reality:
80% of people worldwide cannot use international credit cards.
The global population with credit cards is about 1.25–1.3 billion;
The proportion of those with actual international credit cards is even lower.
This means:
Over 80% of people are excluded from the global credit payment system.
Credit cards are not just payment tools,
but gateways to the credit system.
And stablecoins are bypassing this gateway.
In Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, India,
stablecoins are becoming a feasible global payment channel.
Why are giants embracing stablecoins simultaneously?
Trip.com is not the first.
Those who have already clearly laid out stablecoins include:
Payment giants: PayPal, Stripe, Ant Group
Internet platforms: Meta, Grab
Banks: Bank of America, Morgan Stanley
Manufacturers: BYD, Toyota, Yamaha (overseas USDT settlement)
PayPal has issued PYUSD;
Ant Group is advancing a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin license.
The boundary between payment institutions and currency issuance is being rewritten.
Deeper reasons:
Fiat currency is failing.
In Bolivia:
Local currency depreciates 65%–137% against the dollar from 2024–2025.
In Iran, Turkey, Egypt:
Three-year cumulative depreciation exceeds 80%
Five-year cumulative depreciation exceeds 200%
When currency depreciation outpaces the income growth of ordinary people—
Payment methods will inevitably change.
In these regions,
USDT is no longer just a "crypto asset,"
but an effective payment tool.
The conclusion is simple:
The spread of stablecoins is not because they are ideal,
but because in many places—
they are the least bad option available.
The world is experiencing localized collapse,
and stablecoins,
in places where the old system fails,
are being forcibly pushed to the forefront by reality.
Trip.com is just a signal.
The real change has only just begun.