Visa Adds Five Blockchains to Stablecoin Settlement Pilot as Run Rate Reaches $7 Billion

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Wed, April 29, 2026 astatine 10:59 AM CDT 2 min read

Visa (NYSE: $V) said Wednesday it is adding Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon (CRYPTO: $POL) and Tempo to its planetary stablecoin colony pilot, expanding the programme to 9 supported blockchains arsenic outgo firms and fiscal institutions trial much ways to settee with integer dollars. The aviator has reached a $7 cardinal annualized stablecoin colony tally rate, up 50% from past quarter, according to the company. 
 
The enlargement puts Visa’s stablecoin strategy deeper into the infrastructure furniture of payments. The institution already supported Avalanche, Ethereum (CRYPTO: $ETH), Solana (CRYPTO: $SOL) and Stellar (CRYPTO: $XLM), and the 5 caller additions springiness issuers and acquirers much prime crossed networks built for antithetic usage cases, from regulated superior markets and privacy-focused colony to low-cost payments and agentic commerce.
 
Visa is besides making a clearer multi-chain stake astatine a clip erstwhile stablecoin enactment is nary longer concentrated connected 1 web oregon 1 benignant of user. The institution said its stablecoin enactment builds connected unrecorded pilots and determination rollouts crossed Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, arsenic good arsenic its caller enlargement of USDC (CRYPTO: $USDC) colony to U.S. banks and much than 130 stablecoin-linked paper programs successful implicit 50 countries.  

“Our partners are gathering successful a multi-chain world, and they expect their options to bespeak that reality,” said Rubail Birwadker, Visa’s planetary caput of maturation products and strategical partnerships. He said expanding the aviator allows partners to take the networks that acceptable their needs portion relying connected Visa to supply a communal colony furniture crossed them. 

Visa’s latest update shows however stablecoin colony is moving from experimentation toward a much applicable relation successful planetary payments. The institution is not trying to regenerate each existing obstruction astatine once. It is gathering a web furniture that lets institutions usage stablecoins, wherever they marque colony faster, much flexible and easier to negociate crossed antithetic blockchain ecosystems. 
 
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) banal is presently trading astatine $338.13 U.S. per share.

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