Stripe launched 2011 — card data never touches merchant server (Stripe.js → token), removing the heaviest PCI burden
Created 2026-06-21
Summary
Claim: Stripe launched 2011. Key innovation: card data never touches the merchant's server (Stripe.js → token), removing the heaviest PCI compliance burden.
Source: ByteByteGo / Stripe.
Confidence: Verified.
Why this matters for Candid: The single most important payments-infrastructure entry on the timeline. Pair with the pre-state ([[pre-stripe-merchant-account-plus-gateway-plus-pci]]) and the pricing (Stripe pricing: 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card transaction; no monthly, setup, or cancellation fees).
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- reference Research brief: the falling cost floor of "real" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026) relates-to
- reference Stripe pricing: 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card transaction; no monthly, setup, or cancellation fees depends-on
- reference Timeline 2004–2014: the decade when each of the three historically-expensive parts independently got cheap depends-on
- rule R1 — Anchor the falling-cost case on the decade 2004–2014 (infrastructure + parts + data); AI-assisted coding is NOT the spine depends-on
- rule R3 — Rent the commodity parts (Stripe / Auth0 / Algolia / RDS / Lambda); build only what is genuinely differentiated logic depends-on