Visa’s vision for supporting digital currency
Learn about Visa’s vision for supporting digital currency as the asset class grows.
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Stablecoins and Visa: Shaping the future of modern payments
Visa is leading the way to integrate stablecoins¹ into the next generation of payments.
Visa announces new stablecoin partnerships
At the Visa 2025 Global Product Drop, we announced new partnerships that will help us make stablecoins more accessible for everyone.
Tune in to the Visa Newsroom to hear more about the Visa 2025 Global Product Drop.
Visa’s ecosystem supports innovation in stablecoin payments
Blockchain networks enable new infrastructure for recording the ownership and transfer of digital assets. We believe that they have the potential to power new applications in capital markets, payments, and commerce.
Advancing blockchain based tokenization with Visa Tokenized Asset Platform
VTAP, Visa's Tokenized Asset Platform, capitalizes on Visa's six-decade legacy in digital payments to offer financial institutions a cutting-edge solution for issuing fiat-backed tokens, enhancing financial efficiency, and enabling programmable finance.
VTAP can help enable banks to digitize and automate legacy financial practices through smart contracts designed to enhance financial infrastructure to be always on and more efficient:
- Discover the Evolution: Read our whitepaper on Visa’s Journey in Tokenization
- Connect with us: Get in touch with our team to learn more about VTAP
- Learn more about specific VTAP Use Cases: Explore our whitepaper on e-HKD
- Learn more about VTAP on the Visa Developer Platform
Visa crypto solutions and capabilities
Visa’s crypto solutions and capabilities can help you evaluate and capitalize on the growing interest in crypto. All supported by the trusted Visa brand.
Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard
Explore the Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard, your gateway to understanding the movement of stablecoin transactions across blockchains, featuring key metrics like active users, transaction volume, and supply trends over time.
Card issuance
Visa enables a fast, easy issuance of Visa credentials, so that crypto holders can quickly and securely pay with Visa at over 100 million merchants worldwide.4
Stablecoin settlement
Visa is enabling USDC (USD Coin) settlement capabilities and innovating on the relationship between digital and traditional fiat currencies. Learn how Visa is moving treasury settlements forward.
Crypto consulting and innovation
Learn to navigate crypto’s complexities and seize new opportunities by working with Visa’s consulting, product, and design experts at the Digital Currency Innovation Hub.
Minimize crypto-related fraud
Use best in-class solutions from Visa to provide innovative end-to-end authentication, fraud, risk, and dispute solutions for crypto transactions.
Visa thought leadership
Discover consumer insights, best practices, and innovative approaches to the blockchain through our research.
A deep dive on Solana, a high performance blockchain network
With high transaction throughput, scalability, and low cost, Solana's blockchain suits payments and Visa's stablecoin settlement pilot.
Paying blockchain gas fees with card
This technical article explains a potential solution to bring the ease and convenience of traditional payments to the world of crypto.
Monolithic vs. modular blockchain
This technical article discusses the blockchain trilemma, the essential components of blockchain technology, and the differences between monolithic and modular blockchains.
Financial data sharing that puts user privacy first
Highlighting privacy technologies in the financial sector that both protect user privacy and allow institutions to use data to power today's payments landscape
A comprehensive overview of enterprise blockchain
Explore the world of enterprise blockchain in our comprehensive technical blog. Learn about various types, platforms, and real-world use cases.
What is Account Abstraction?
Explore new techniques for blockchain payment processing, such as Account Abstraction, to enable frictionless crypto onboarding and transaction experiences.
What is Ethereum's Staking Model?
Gain insight into Ethereum's staking model and cryptoeconomics. Learn how these concepts impact the value and stability of cryptocurrency.
The Crypto Phenomenon: FY22 Consumer Attitudes & Usage
At Visa, we aim to better understand consumer perceptions and preferences for engaging with cryptocurrency to uncover emerging trends in the space.
See the results of our Visa Crypto consumer research and stay up to date on trends in the space
What are Consensus Mechanisms?
An analysis of Consensus Mechanisms for blockchain networks.
Discover the implications of Consensus Mechanisms for payments and the scalability trade-offs
What was the Ethereum Merge?
Examining The Merge and its implications on Ethereum's future.
Auto payments for self-custodial wallets
This technical paper is written by Visa's crypto research and engineering teams and is aimed at companies interested in exploring programmable payments and money.
Learn how to unlock the Potential of Auto-Payments with Blockchain: A Guide to Account Abstraction
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) payments module – digitization and social impact
Digitization will help drive new value created in the global economy. This paper focuses on the various aspects of CBDC that can help drive digitization and promote responsible innovation.
The world of crypto moves fast. Keep up.
Offer customers fast money movement to and from their crypto accounts with Visa Direct.⁴
Read our latest research, “Understanding the Cryptocurrency Payment Landscape”
The crypto phenomenon: Consumer attitudes and usage
Crypto-related perceptions and products continually evolve as digital currencies gain momentum and mainstream popularity.
Read about Visa’s research on consumer perception of crypto and its role in the future of commerce
Making digital currency interoperable
Learn more about why cross-chain interoperability matters and Visa’s approach to solving the problem.
Making offline digital currency transactions possible
Discover an innovative approach to face-to-face digital currency transactions.
Read and explore offline exchange of digital cash and its benefits
Discover more about Visa’s approach to crypto
Check out Visa’s latest crypto insights, watch interviews with crypto leaders, see how crypto solutions are brought to market, and more.
Visa is the network of choice for crypto wallets
- Stablecoins are digital currencies transacted on blockchain networks and designed to maintain a stable value by being pegged to a reserve asset such as fiat currency.
- Crypto includes cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and non-fungible tokens.
- Solution in pilot mode.
- https://corporate.visa.com/content/dam/VCOM/corporate/documents/about-visa-factsheet.pdf