
Sphere
Sphere is a global stablecoin payments API and dashboard for businesses, enabling cross-border settlement in under 30 minutes across 160+ markets.

What is Sphere?
Sphere is a global stablecoin payments platform for businesses, offering REST APIs, SDKs, a self-serve dashboard, and white-label solutions for cross-border payments that settle in under 30 minutes across 160+ markets. Sphere's product suite includes a Developer Toolkit with lightweight APIs and SDKs for adding payment on/off-ramps, a self-serve Dashboard for sending, receiving, and managing payments without code, a Private Desk for personalized OTC transfers with optimized FX pricing, and an Embedded Ramp that lets end users buy or sell stablecoins using fiat rails with just 20 lines of JavaScript. Sphere eliminates prefunding by enabling just-in-time settlement through local rails, routes transactions through optimized corridors with transparent pricing, and embeds compliance workflows so businesses can scale across regions without spinning up new vendors or risk processes.
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