Avalanche announced today it has forged an integration with the fintech Stripe to streamline consumers' ability to both add funds to their wallet and purchase digital assets.

"Core, Avalanche's native ecosystem wallet ... has integrated Stripe’s onramp, giving users more ways to purchase assets on the Avalanche blockchain," the company said in its statement. "Core users can select the Stripe onramp to fund their wallets using ACH, debit, and credit cards."

After staying out of the world of crypto for years, Stripe last week said it would support transactions for the USDC stablecoin. The company stopped supporting bitcoin in 2018, citing the cryptocurrency's volatile price action as a cause for concern.

John Egan, Stripe's head of crypto, said working with Avalanche is "closely aligned" …