Stripe believes that discussions about blockchain scalability often underestimate the complexity of real-world payments and points out that genuine commercial activities involve fraud checks, compliance, subscription processes, and more, far beyond simple transfers. The company states that future systems may need to handle billions of transactions per second to address these aspects as well as the emerging machine-to-machine economy — where AI agents generate a continuous stream of transactions. This shifts the focus from theoretical peak throughput to the end-to-end capacity needed to support global industrial-scale commerce.