Visa Inc. (V) is taking its digital asset involvement to the next level. The payments giant is launching a stablecoin advisory practice designed to help banks and other organizations figure out whether stablecoins actually make sense for their payments and treasury operations.
From Experiment to Execution
The new Stablecoins Advisory Practice lives within Visa Consulting & Analytics and will guide clients through market fit assessment, strategy development, technology selection, and implementation. According to Fortune, this isn't just Visa hedging its bets on blockchain. It's a response to real demand from financial institutions that want to move past the pilot phase.
Carl Rutstein, global head of Visa Consulting & Analytics, said the initiative reflects growing interest from institutions seeking practical ways to integrate stablecoins into their existing infrastructure. Translation: banks are done kicking the tires and want to know how to actually use this stuff.
Regulatory Green Light Changes the Game
The stablecoin conversation shifted dramatically after the GENIUS Act passed earlier this year. That legislation established a U.S. regulatory framework for issuing and overseeing dollar-pegged digital assets, which gave institutions the clarity they needed to move forward with confidence.
Payment companies and banks have responded by transitioning from experimentation to real-world deployment. Visa said its advisory clients are exploring use cases ranging from cross-border payments and B2B transactions to operations in countries dealing with volatile currencies.
Who's Already On Board
The advisory practice already has dozens of clients, including Navy Federal Credit Union, Pathward, and VyStar Credit Union. Rutstein noted that some participants will likely proceed with stablecoin implementations, while others may determine there's no immediate customer demand justifying the investment.
Visa expects the advisory business to scale to hundreds of clients as adoption spreads across traditional finance and fintech sectors. It's the kind of growth trajectory that suggests stablecoins are becoming infrastructure, not innovation theater.
Visa's Stablecoin Track Record
This isn't Visa's first rodeo with stablecoins. The company piloted stablecoin settlement using USDC back in 2023 and now supports more than 130 stablecoin-linked card programs spanning over 40 countries.
The scale is getting real. Visa reports its annualized stablecoin settlement volume has hit roughly $3.5 billion, proving that blockchain-based payments are transitioning from pilot programs to production-level usage. That's not experimental anymore.
Technical Setup Points to Continued Strength
Visa is trading near $348 after breaking above a short-term descending trendline that had capped price action since October. That trendline break represents the most significant technical development on the chart recently.
The breakout followed a successful defense of the $320–$325 support zone, which lines up with the lower boundary of the rising channel and Supertrend support near $328. Buyers stepped in decisively, converting what could have been a temporary bounce into a confirmed breakout.
The stock has now re-entered the middle portion of the rising channel. As long as Visa holds above the broken trendline and stays above $335, the breakout structure remains intact. A drop back below $330–$325 would invalidate the move and return the stock to consolidation mode.
The RSI has climbed back into the mid-60s, signaling renewed strength without showing signs of exhaustion. That leaves room for further upside movement without immediately hitting overbought territory.
Overhead resistance sits near $350. A daily close above the $350–$355 zone would confirm continuation and open a path toward $375, which aligns with upper channel resistance.
- Support: $335, then $325.
- Resistance: $350, then $375.