Block’s retreat to 2019 scale could be a hint of deeper shifts in payments economics
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by Sam ReynoldsFebruary 27, 2026
While Jack Dorsey cites AI-enabled productivity gains as the reason for Block's cuts, the deeper shift is in payments plumbing: stablecoin settlement threatens to compress the fee stack that fintech acquirers have relied on for years.
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Originally published on CoinDesk on 2/27/2026