Visa

V

Market cap $686B

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Stablecoins were supposed to make payment networks less necessary. Visa's new stablecoin platform, introduced Thursday (July 16), suggests a messier outcome.

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V's Stablecoin Platform aims to simplify blockchain payments, helping institutions adopt stablecoins while expanding enterprise use cases.

Visa, Stripe and Google have joined the x402 Foundation as premier members, adding three of the biggest names in payments and search to an effort to build an open standard for machines that pay each other. The foundation, affiliated with the Linux Foundation, is developing x402, a protocol that lets AI agents transact with each other and with people directly over the web, without subscriptions or a human typing in card details.

In the most recent trading session, Visa (V) closed at $365.14, indicating a +2.82% shift from the previous trading day.

Visa's dominant position in the payments landscape results in trillions of dollars in quarterly volume. A globally entrenched network effect makes it almost impossible for challengers to disrupt the business.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Visa (NYSE: V) announced the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), a new enterprise platform designed to help financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto natives access stablecoin capabilities through a single Visa-managed environment. Building on Visa's broader crypto strategy, VSP gives FIs, fintechs and other payment providers a simple way to access, store, and redeem stablecoins, beginning with Open USD (OUSD), a new stablecoin recently introduced by Open S.