Provide access to increasingly large amounts of non-dilutive capital.

Stripe’s slogan, “Increase the GDP of the internet” points at a far loftier vision and more ambitious goal than the mundanity of payment processing. And this is reinforced in both much of Patrick Collison’s projects outside of Stripe as well as initiatives like Stripe Press.

In the press release, Stripe highlighted its partnership with Shopify, which is using Treasury to build Shopify Balance.