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Stablecoins are becoming a payment rail. The hard part sits offchain
Visa, Mastercard and their infrastructure partners are moving tokenized dollars into treasury funding, settlement and payouts. The blockchain transfer is only one layer of the product.
2 min readBusiness · NewsVisa Direct adds Zero Hash rails for stablecoin funding and payouts
Eligible clients can use stablecoins on both sides of a Visa Direct transfer: to fund an account and to deliver value to a recipient. The capability is not a universal switch-on across Visa's network.
2 min readBusiness · EventVisa Direct stablecoin rollout moves from pilots to infrastructure integration
Public announcements now cover prefunding, recipient payouts and Zero Hash's infrastructure role. Availability remains limited rather than network-wide.
1 min readBusiness · AnalysisMastercard is building an identity layer for stablecoin transfers
Crypto Credential maps verified users and supported destinations before value moves. Its importance lies in the control plane around a transfer, not a new stablecoin or chain.
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