USDC Hits 70% Stablecoin Lead as Volume Surges to $1.79T
Visa's onchain dashboard puts USDC near triple USDT's share and total adjusted volume past $8.8T in H1 2026, with Standard Chartered and BNY now building around Circle's rails.
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Visa's onchain dashboard puts USDC near triple USDT's share and total adjusted volume past $8.8T in H1 2026, with Standard Chartered and BNY now building around Circle's rails.
The new stablecoin hands reserve income to 140 partners and lets them route the cash into DeFi liquidity, wallet cashback, and lending boosts, a direct shot at Circle's $653M quarterly reserve engine.
The launch lineup pulls in payments rails, an exchange, banks and tech firms under a single stablecoin that distributes reserve revenue back to members, a structural break from Tether's and Circle's…
Falling stablecoin supply means less dollar collateral available to recycle through crypto markets, the read that historically precedes sharper moves on both sides.
The stablecoin that was supposed to displace card networks is now riding them: Tether's USDT will plug into Visa's rails across Brazil, the region's largest card market.
The same card network crypto was built to bypass is now the on-ramp for stablecoin spending — a structural inversion of the original disruption thesis, and a sign that rails beat ideology for…
The integration is the first time a crypto-built identity layer has routed agent-initiated spend through Visa's tokenised network — a structural on-ramp for AI agents to transact like cardholders,…
The product lands in the same week Mastercard shipped its Agent Pay initiative and MetaMask launched Agent Wallet — three big rails in 30 days, all betting the next payments surface is autonomous.
Forestell's framing puts stablecoins on the settlement rails and AI on the consumer surface — and the OpenAI tie-up, Agentic Directory, and $7B annualized stablecoin run rate show Visa is building…
Visa has partnered with OpenAI to enable secure, agent-driven payments across its global network, using tokenized…
Visa and Brale are exploring private stablecoin settlement for institutional payments, using Brale's SBC…
Visa and fintech firm Brale are testing privacy-enabled settlement using SBC (Stablecoin-Backed Currency) on Canton…
Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase are forming a consortium to launch a new stablecoin designed to compete directly…
The three card-network giants already own the on-ramp rails — a shared stablecoin platform collapses the next layer of the payments stack into one consortium.
Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are joining forces to launch a crypto stablecoin platform, marking one of the most…
A consortium of the three largest US card networks and Coinbase would compress years of separate stablecoin acquisitions into one shared settlement rail — the most concrete sign yet that Wall…
The narrative of stablecoins cutting out card networks is being inverted on the consumer side: roughly 90% of crypto-card volume already settles through Visa, with $7.2B cumulative and a $600M…
The card network is settling roughly $7B annualized onchain and now supports 130+ stablecoin-linked card programs across 50+ countries — the rails are no longer a sandbox.
David Marcus announced that Lightspark has become a principal member of Visa's network, a move designed to extend…
Visa is joining forces with a co-founder of Tether to develop onchain banking infrastructure — a move that signals the…