Bolt, the checkout, identity and payments platform, today announced Bolt Connect, a new product designed to help marketplaces onboard merchants faster, streamline operations and scale with fewer resources.
Bolt Connect gives marketplace operators a single integration to support one-click merchant onboarding, built-in compliance workflows, and low-fee or no-fee payouts. With Bolt managing the infrastructure, marketplaces can grow more efficiently while controlling their own brand experience and business model.
The company also announced support for stablecoin payments, giving merchants and shoppers enhanced flexibility through new digital payment infrastructure.
"Marketplaces shouldn't have to choose between scale and simplicity," said Ryan Breslow, Founder and CEO of Bolt. "With Bolt Connect, we're giving them the tools to grow without the usual technical burden, while stablecoin support opens the door to faster, borderless payments for everyone in the network."
Bolt Connect: Built for Marketplaces
Bolt Connect is designed to manage costly and time-intensive commerce infrastructure for marketplaces. It enables them to easily onboard and support sellers—whether they have 10 or 10,000—without significant development work and resources. Bolt handles the compliance, payouts, and infrastructure behind the scenes, giving marketplaces a clean path to scale while maintaining a seamless experience for both merchants and end users.
Stablecoins: Faster, Cheaper, Global Payments
Bolt's support for stablecoins will benefit both sides of the transaction.
For merchants, it means faster settlement, lower transaction fees, and easier cross-border payouts—especially relevant for marketplaces using Bolt Connect. Stablecoins allow operators to move money globally without relying on banks or card networks.
For shoppers, stablecoins offer a private, instant and borderless way to pay, no credit card, bank account or international fees required.
These announcements follow a string of recent product launches from Bolt, part of the company's mission to make commerce easier for merchants and more intuitive for shoppers, regardless of platform, payment method or geography. Recent highlights include a strategic partnership with Palantir to launch Checkout 2.0, an AI-powered, personalized checkout experience that adapts in real time to shopper behavior and preferences, and the debut of Bolt's SuperApp, an all-in-one finance and crypto hub. It also recently launched Bolt Charge, a subscription solution that powers recurring payments for digital goods with no platform fees.