A quiet milestone from the past year: Visa began settling transactions in USDC, and within months it was running across more than 130 stablecoin-linked card programs in over 50 countries.
When the largest card network starts settling in stablecoins, the question stops being whether onchain settlement is real. It becomes how fast it spreads.
The pull is strongest in cross-border flows, where the correspondent banking system is slow and costly. Moving value as a regulated stablecoin compresses settlement from days to minutes, across corridors that used to need a separate banking relationship for each market.
This is the layer we build for: regulated settlement an institution can actually put into production.