Visa Opens a New Route For Onchain Lending Into Payments Visa is connecting its VisaNet settlement data with blockchain based lending infrastructure. This would enable lenders to extend loans to finance payment obligations through VisaNet transaction data. The lenders can also analyze Visa settlement data along with on-chain data to evaluate the borrowers and funding requests. The company gave the example of Credit Coop, which has extended $2.5 billion worth of settlement volume since 2023. It is part of an ongoing effort by Visa’s stablecoin payment service, which is growing in its network of operations. There are now over 160 stablecoin linked card programs running on Visa, with their payment volume increasing by almost 200% YOY.