Mesh and Visa are launching crypto payments without a separate card The idea is simple: the wallet app where you hold crypto pays at Visa merchants itself. A Visa credential is created in the background, you tap at a regular contactless terminal, and Mesh handles the conversion at that moment The best part: - nothing to sell or top up in advance, you pay from what you already hold - merchants change nothing, they get a regular Visa payment - wallets plug in through @meshpay and skip building a card program of their own - KYC still applies, Mesh runs it It is not live yet: no date, no devices and no wallets named so far Four days earlier @Visa Direct put USDC prefunding for business payouts into production, with Inyo Global as the first to plug in Crypto Cards moved $1.56B in September, and this goes after the card itself. Under the hood it is still Visa, you just stop signing up for a separate product Would you pay from your wallet app without a separate card?