Visa is quietly building stablecoins into mainstream payment plumbing without you knowing

Visa said its settlement pilot for stablecoins now supports nine blockchains and has reached a run rate of $7 billion a year. The company announced on April 29 that it added Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo to a pilot that already used Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana and Stellar. Visa said the annualized settlement run rate is up 50% from the prior quarter. The pilot remains bounded by Visa’s own language, but the si…