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Visa just plugged a stablecoin directly into the core of global payments.

Western Union's $USDPT, issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, a federally chartered US bank, is now a native settlement asset on VisaNet. Eligible Visa partners can settle what they owe the network in $USDPT instead of traditional bank money.

This is not a card pilot or a sandbox demo. Settlement is where the money actually moves after you tap your card, and Visa just let a dollar stablecoin do that job.

$USDPT runs on Solana, launched in May, with around $20M in circulation today. Small for now. But the framework Visa and Anchorage built covers more Anchorage-issued stablecoins next, and the same bank already issues Tether's USAT and Ethena's USDtb.

The honest risk: no timeline, no participant list, no disclosed volumes yet. An option to settle is not adoption. But the direction is unmistakable. The world's biggest card network is now settling in stablecoins, issued by a regulated bank.

Stablecoins are no longer crypto's side quest. They are becoming the settlement layer.

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#Visa #USDPT #Stablecoin #Solana #Binance

🚀 Traditional Payments Meet Blockchain!

Visa has added Monad as a stablecoin settlement option for participating issuers and acquirers.

This is an important infrastructure development connecting blockchain technology with global payment systems.

#Monad #Visa #Stablecoins #Mr_SPONDY_13

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Visa has added the Monad network as a stablecoin settlement option for participating issuers and acquirers, the Monad Foundation said on November 10, 2026.

According to the Foundation's November 10 GlobeNewswire release, participating Visa issuers and acquirers can now settle Visa obligations in stablecoins on Monad, a fully EVM-compatible Layer 1. Dan Roesbery, Visa vice president of global onchain partnerships and go-to-market, said the addition expands the networks available to partners and is another step toward multi-chain settlement infrastructure for stablecoin-enabled payments. Traditional card settlement runs on a five-business-day banking schedule; blockchain settlement can also move funds across weekends and holidays.

The Foundation said privacy functionality designed to keep commercially sensitive settlement details confidential, while still allowing them to be shared with auditors and regulators, is planned in the coming months and is not live yet. For merchants and cardholders, the Visa experience stays the same, with Monad settlement happening in the background.

#Visa #Monad #Stablecoins
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Visa just added Monad to its stablecoin settlement program. Three questions this raises:

1) Does it move money today? It's now an option for participating issuers and acquirers, the tenth chain after Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo. Visa's stablecoin run rate was $20B annualized in September 2026, so volume sits with the program, not one chain (The Block).

2) Why Monad? Privacy. The Monad Foundation says a "Private Settlement" feature, hiding details from the public while auditors and regulators can still see them, is planned for the coming months.

3) Does it help $MON ? It hit an all-time low of $0.0153 on Nov 9 (CoinMarketCap), and the Nov 24 anniversary starts scheduled team and investor token releases (Alea Research). Logos and supply schedules pull in opposite directions, so settlement volume is the number I'd watch. Not financial advice.

Which matters more for $MON from here: real settlement volume or the unlock calendar?

#Monad #Visa #Stablecoins

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JUST IN: Visa is expanding its crypto stablecoin settlement network — so payments can now settle on weekends and holidays.

Visa has added Monad to its stablecoin settlement program, joining chains like Solana, Ethereum and Avalanche. Blockchain settlement moves outside the usual five-day banking schedule, and Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has now passed $25 billion.

Traditional finance is moving on-chain fast. Will stablecoin settlement $USDC become the new normal for global payments?

#Crypto #Stablecoins #Visa
DYOR. This is not financial advice.

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Anchorage Digital just published a press release on its website: It is partnering with Visa to make some stablecoins issued by Anchorage Digital Bank native settlement assets on the Visa network, starting with Western Union’s USDPT.

The release says Visa and eligible partners can now choose to use USDPT to settle amounts due on VisaNet. This is the first time a stablecoin issued by Anchorage has been connected to this settlement rail, and the two sides have also left the door open to considering other coins in the future.

Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley said stablecoins make it possible to move money faster, but institutions still need regulated entities behind them. Dan Roesbery, Visa’s vice president of global crypto partnerships, said support for USDPT is intended to give partners another institutional-grade settlement option backed by a federally chartered bank.

For institutions adopting stablecoin settlement, what matters may no longer be just speed, but the entire package of licensing, custody, and settlement.

#稳定币 #Visa

Don't read “Visa adds Western Union stablecoin settlement” as a sign that stablecoins are about to take off.

On 11/12, Anchorage Digital announced that Visa and eligible partners can now use Western Union's USDPT to settle payables on VisaNet, with plans to make room for other stablecoins issued by Anchorage later on. The headline sounds dramatic, but let's check the on-chain data: DefiLlama shows USDPT's circulating supply was about $18 million on 11/12. It hit a high of about $22.4 million on 10/1, then stayed mostly flat for the following six weeks.

I think the real story here is the race to become the “stablecoin settlement bank.” Western Union's head of digital assets put it plainly in an interview on 11/5: USDPT's main job is to reduce the funds tied up in pre-funding accounts at correspondent banks around the world. Switching to 24/7 on-chain settlement frees up Western Union's capital; Anchorage gets a piece of the action from issuance and custody all the way through to settlement rails. It has also said its goal is to become an institutional-grade stablecoin settlement bank. Visa, meanwhile, connects to any chain and any coin, always sitting in the middle to collect tolls.

One caveat: circulating supply is a stock, not a flow. An $18 million supply could easily turn over several times a day, so don't use it to infer settlement volume. But the fact that supply hasn't grown in six weeks also tells us something: Western Union's channel hasn't been rolled out widely yet, and funds haven't accumulated on-chain.

If you're looking to spin this into bullish news for SOL, take a breath. USDPT is indeed issued only on Solana, but with a market this small and the use case being institutional settlement, its fee contribution is almost negligible relative to SOL's valuation. If you want to track this, watch two numbers: whether USDPT can break above its previous high of $22.4 million, and which coin from Anchorage will be the second to go live on Visa. Visa's September report put annualized stablecoin settlement at $20 billion, without breaking it down by coin. Don't make up how much of that comes from Western Union.

#稳定币 #Visa