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In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley\u2019s most prominent startup incubator will allow its spring cohort of entrepreneurs to receive their funding in stablecoins. YCombinator, whose alumni include the founders of Airbnb and DoorDash, announced on Tuesday that founders can opt to receive their customary allotment\u2014typically around $500,000\u2014in the Circle-issued USDC. <\/p>\n

Startups founders who choose stablecoins can choose to receive the tokens on various blockchains such as Ethereum and Solana, Nemil Dalal, a visiting partner at Y Combinator who focuses on crypto, told Fortune<\/em>. He added that Y Combinator may expand to other stablecoins depending on demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cStablecoins is one of the key pillars for us,\u201d Dalal added, referring to one of the areas where Y Combinator would like to see more startup ideas. \u201cSo we just want to live and breathe that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price agnostic<\/h2>\n

While many crypto venture capitalists have let the startups in their portfolio take funding stablecoins for some time, more traditional tech investors haven\u2019t given that opportunity to founders. Dalal, for example, said he wasn\u2019t aware of any legacy VCs who offer that option. \u201cWe’re excited for a world where, in the future, we think a lot of startups will eventually start raising capital on-chain,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Stablecoins have been around for more than a decade but, historically, their adoption was primarily limited to crypto traders seeking a non-volatile asset to park profits. In the last two years, however, stablecoins have burst into the headlines following a push by Wall Street and corporations that view the assets as a faster and more inexpensive way to move money around.<\/p>\n

Big tech has taken notice, especially after President Donald Trump signed into law in July a bill regulating the crypto assets. The fintech giant Stripe completed a $1.1 billion acquisition of the stablecoin startup Bridge in February 2025 and has since backed its own blockchain designed for stablecoin transactions. The cloud infrastructure company Cloudflare announced its intention to launch its own stablecoin in September. And the buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna has launched its own token as well in November.  <\/p>\n

Those announcements largely came during a more bullish crypto market that saw Bitcoin and other tokens notch all-time highs. Now, sentiment has soured as the world\u2019s largest cryptocurrency nears monthslong lows. But, Dalal, the visiting partner at Y Combinator, said that bearish outlook doesn\u2019t apply to stablecoins. \u201cThe excitement on stablecoins is just growing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s actually agnostic of prices.\u201d<\/p>\n

This story was originally featured on Fortune.com<\/p>\n

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