
{"id":234930,"date":"2026-10-02T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=234930"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:41:44","slug":"visa-says-business-payments-now-drive-17-of-stablecoin-linked-card-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=234930","title":{"rendered":"Visa Says Business Payments Now Drive 17% Of Stablecoin-Linked Card Volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>TL;DR<\/h2>\n<p>Visa says roughly 17% of its stablecoin-linked card volume in fiscal 2026 year-to-date came from business and commercial card programs.<br \/>\nThe payments company now supports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs across consumer and business use cases.<br \/>\nThe data suggests stablecoins are spreading beyond crypto spending cards into treasury, settlement and cross-border business payments.<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoin cards are beginning to look less like a consumer crypto experiment and more like business payment infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Visa published new data on October 1 showing that approximately 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume in its fiscal 2026 year-to-date period came from business and commercial card programs. The company says it now supports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs across consumer, business and commercial use cases.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage matters because companies use cards very differently from retail users.<\/p>\n<p>Business volume points to a broader stablecoin use case<\/p>\n<p>A consumer may use a stablecoin-linked card because it makes a crypto balance spendable at ordinary merchants.<\/p>\n<p>A business may be solving a different problem: cross-border settlement, treasury management, supplier payments or moving money between systems that do not share the same banking hours.<\/p>\n<p>Visa says those use cases are gaining traction as financial institutions and payment providers explore stablecoins as infrastructure rather than as speculative assets.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is already visible elsewhere in payment infrastructure. Visa itself has already moved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/visa-stablecoin-treasury-engine-institutional-settlement\/\">stablecoin settlement deeper into institutional treasury operations<\/a>, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/toss-bank-tests-solana-stablecoin-rails-for-overseas-transfers\/\">Toss Bank has tested Solana-based remittance rails<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The common denominator is not a new token price cycle. It is money movement.<\/p>\n<p>Cards remain a useful bridge between old and new rails<\/p>\n<p>Stablecoins can settle onchain, but most businesses still operate in a world of bank accounts, invoices, card networks and conventional accounting systems.<\/p>\n<p>Card programs create a bridge. A company can hold or receive digital dollars while still spending through merchant infrastructure that already exists globally.<\/p>\n<p>That hybrid model is likely to be important during the transition period because it does not require every supplier or employee to become a blockchain user.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation will still shape how quickly the model spreads. In Europe, issuers are working inside MiCA and exchanges have already adjusted which stablecoins they support. NewsBTC\u2019s coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/news\/circle-brings-native-eurc-to-base-as-mica-gives-euro-stablecoins-a-clearer-lane\/\">Circle bringing EURC to Base<\/a> shows how regulated stablecoin distribution and blockchain liquidity are beginning to reinforce each other.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen percent is not dominance, but it is meaningful<\/p>\n<p>Consumer activity still makes up the majority of Visa\u2019s stablecoin-linked card volume.<\/p>\n<p>The significance of the 17% figure is that business usage is now large enough to measure as a distinct part of the network rather than a rounding error.<\/p>\n<p>If the share keeps climbing, stablecoins may become most important not because shoppers choose to pay with crypto, but because businesses quietly use tokenized money underneath familiar payment products.<\/p>\n<p>That would be a much less visible form of adoption, and potentially a much larger one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>This article was written by the News Desk and edited by Samuel Rae.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR Visa says roughly 17% of its stablecoin-linked card volume in fiscal 2026 year-to-date came from business and commercial card programs. The payments company now supports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs across consumer and business use cases. The data suggests stablecoins are spreading beyond crypto spending cards into treasury, settlement and cross-border business payments. 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