Eligible Shopify merchants can now accept USDC through Shopify Payments, thanks to the Commerce Payments Protocol that Shopify and Coinbase built on Base. The stablecoin option appears at checkout alongside other payment methods and runs through the order flow merchants already know. Contents Across the protocol, Shopify reports net settled payment volume above $42M and more than 448K tracked payments. These numbers, drawn from Shopify and third-party dashboards as of October 2026, are subject to change. What changes at checkout Customers pay using asupported crypto wallet, while merchants get local currency on their normal payout schedule.