“Can a French merchant-of-record + payment orchestration layer beat Stripe on cost and beat crypto-native tools on legitimacy by unifying cards and stablecoins with USDC payouts?”
Suby is a French startup (Suby SAS, Paris) building a payment orchestration layer that unifies card, wallet, bank and stablecoin payments behind a single API and merchant-of-record model. It positions explicitly as an alternative to Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Whop and PayPal for international/creator businesses that want USDC settlement and flat pricing. Suby is not a bank — all regulated activity (acquiring, tax remittance, custody) is delegated to licensed third-party partners it does not publicly name.