Visa has expanded its stablecoin settlement pilot to nine blockchains after adding Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo.
The company says its onchain settlement volume is running at an annualized pace of about $7 billion, up roughly 50% quarter over quarter.
Visa is widening its stablecoin settlement network, adding five more blockchains to a pilot that is gradually becoming part of the company’s broader payments infrastructure.
Visa adds five more chains to settlement pilot
The payments group has added Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo to its stablecoin settlement pilot. That brings the total number of supported blockchains to nine, giving Visa a wider technical base for testing how tokenized dollars can move across different networks.
The expansion is notable because these chains serve different corners of the market. Base and Polygon are widely used public blockchain ecosystems. Canton is built with institutional finance in mind. Arc and Tempo reflect the growing interest i