Key Takeaways:
- Visa has announced that Monad is becoming a new member of the Visa stablecoin settlement network for Monad’s issuers and acquirers.
- Visa’s stablecoin business currently amounts to more than $25 billion annually.
- The integration provides financial institutions with an additional choice when it comes to settling Visa transactions that may be outside of traditional banking hours.
Visa continues to grow its infrastructure of money on the blockchain with the addition of Monad as an institutional settlement blockchain.
Stablecoins on Monad can now be used to settle obligations between card issuers and acquirers, which will take the high-performance Layer 1 into Visa’s multi-chain settlement network.
Visa Adds Monad to Its Stablecoin Settlement Network
The integration is not on the consumer checkout side, but rather at the back end of card payments.
🌐 @Visa is expanding stablecoin settlement to Monad
Participating issuers and acquirers can now settle Visa obligations in stablecoins on the Monad blockchain https://t.co/WLiY9H8Hic
— Monad (@monad) November 10, 2026
Cards are issued by issuers to customers, and the acquirers are responsible for merchant payment processing. Once the clearing takes place, the participating institutions can settle the amounts owed through Visa using stablecoins on Monad.
This enables yet another channel to bypass traditional banking hours, such as weekends and holidays, giving settlement money an alternative path.
The network is permissionless and has the speed and scalability needed for payment settlement, Monad Foundation said. No naming of issuers or acquirers was made who will use Monad first or which stablecoins will be supported.
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Stablecoin Settlement Run Rate Passes $25 Billion
There has been a rapid increase in Visa’s settlement activity of stablecoins in 2026. Visa had earlier said in September it had reached a run rate of more than $20 billion annually.
By late October, Visa CEO Ryan McInerney said the annualized tally was higher than $25 billion, about 10 times the level a year ago. This is Visa’s total stablecoin settlement volume, across all its settlement networks, not necessarily volume settled via Monad.
In April, Visa rolled out its settlement testing initiative to nine blockchains and expanded the program to $7 billion per year.
Monad Adds Institutional Privacy Infrastructure
Monad’s Visa integration is part of its efforts to build privacy focused settlement infrastructure for financial institutions.
Monad’s proposed Private Settlement design would enable organizations to have execution environments with configurable validators, permissioned asset and access rules while keeping them connected to the main network.
Specific information such as sensitive transaction details and balances and contract state may not be available, and regulators or auditors may have access to specific information as needed. The privacy feature is not part of the existing Visa integration, but is still being developed. More privacy features are in the works in the near future, according to Monad Foundation.
By acquiring Monad, Visa is continuing an approach that has been in full swing over the last few weeks in which it has started to see stablecoins more as settlement utilities than just crypto assets. The network is providing the issuers and acquirers with additional ways to utilize blockchain and making Visa the shared layer that ties those settlement channels together.
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