Visa and Mesh Partner to Make Crypto and Stablecoin Balances Spendable at 175M+ Visa Merchant Locations

The stablecoin payments buildout has spent the year assembling rails: Visa Direct moving USDC prefunding into commercial production, Mastercard wiring BVNK stablecoin settlement into 130 countries, and Marqeta and Coinbase building processor-layer settlement on Base. Each solved a different leg: cross-border prefunding, card issuing, and processor integration. What none of them solved was the simplest […]