The Dodo Digest: Calm Week, Big Reflections

Hello from Dodo Payments,

After the last few tiring weeks, we finally had a calm, normal one, mostly focused on going through the stack of updates we’d shipped, fixing a few things under the hood, and tying up loose ends.

But “calm” is always relative.
Between supporting customers, watching platform shifts unfold, and keeping up with industry chaos, it still felt like we lived a month in a few days.

One story stood out: Windsurf.
A company doing $82M in ARR. Doubling enterprise revenue. A serious infra player, gone in 72 hours.
OpenAI’s $3B deal fell through. Google picked up the founding team for $2.4B. Cognition Labs grabbed the rest.
To top it off, Anthropic pulled access to Claude midway through the mess.

It was a reminder of how fragile things can be even at scale.
You might be growing fast, but if your infra sits on someone else’s rails, you’re never truly in control.

At Dodo Payments, we’ve been thinking hard about this.

How do we build infrastructure that’s not just powerful, but defensible?
Infra that’s owned, not rented.
That’s where we’re placing our bets.
Infra-first, always.

Moving ahead now, here's a small reminder of some amazing features we’ve built for you.  

Adaptive currency:
We launched this a while back, and it’s driving conversions for global merchants.

It’s designed to make global payments feel local and your customers pay in their own currency, while you continue settling in yours. A small shift, but it’s already driving meaningful improvements in checkout conversion and cross-border sales for many of our merchants.

Since launch, more than 40% of all transactions on Dodo Payments are already using it so If you’re selling across borders, this one’s a no-brainer.

Product Updates 

Earlier, I spoke about the major upgrades we rolled out in Q2, from Adaptive Currency to Multi-Brand Setup and our new Mobile App.
A lot of you asked for more details, so Ayush put together a full breakdown of everything we shipped.

Read the full Q2 product update

We’ve got a fresh slate of updates lined up, especially around integrations and developer experience.
These are designed to reduce setup time and make working with Dodo Payments feel even more seamless.

We’ll be sharing more on X, so keep an eye out.

If you’re not already on our Discord channel, come say hi: Join our Discord

Until next time,

Rishabh Goel
Co-Founder & CEO
Dodo Payments