Visa Launches Onchain Credit Initiative, Stablecoin Volume Hits $20B Run Rate
V sits 25% above its 52-week low of $293.89 on light trading volume (0.2× avg).
Summary
Visa is expanding its stablecoin strategy with a new onchain credit initiative that gives lenders access to VisaNet settlement data for evaluating and monitoring financing. The program combines payment data with blockchain-based lending infrastructure, enabling automated funding, collateral management, and repayment. Visa reports over 160 stablecoin-linked card programs on its network, with payment volume up nearly 200% year over year and stablecoin settlement volume surpassing a $20 billion annualized run rate—a 15-fold increase from a year earlier. An early deployment with Credit Coop is already live. This follows Visa's launch of its own Open USD stablecoin in July and its $2.4 billion BioCatch acquisition in August, signaling a deepening push into digital-asset infrastructure. The initiative could drive incremental transaction and data-services revenue, though the financial impact is not yet quantified.
At the time of this announcement, V was trading at $367.90 on NYSE in the Finance sector, with a market capitalization of approximately $686.9B. The 52-week trading range was $293.89 to $385.57. This news item was assessed with positive market sentiment and an importance score of 7 out of 10. Source: Dow Jones Newswires.