Crypto
Thursday, 7/16, 04:30 PM
Visa Launches a Stablecoin Platform as an Industry Consortium Circles Circle
- Visa unveiled infrastructure to let banks and fintechs issue and move stablecoins, and threw its weight behind Open USD, a token backed by a 140-company group including Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock and Coinbase.
- The push targets the profit model of Circle, the USDC issuer, whose shares slipped again on the news after a much steeper fall two weeks ago.