Inside Visa’s Stablecoin Settlement Pilot — What It Means for Digital Payments

The formula for stablecoin success was, at least until Tuesday (June 30), a relatively simple one. Whoever controlled issuance of the largest digital asset by market cap controlled the network. Reserve income accumulated to the issuer, distribution flowed through exchanges, and everyone else became infrastructure supporting someone else’s asset. But on Tuesday the stablecoin dynamic […] The

Visa, Mastercard, US Bank, Google and Coinbase are among dozens of firms backing Open USD, a new stablecoin slated to launch later this year.

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