Visa Pilots USDC Payouts for Creators and Gig Workers

Visa is piloting a caller strategy that volition let companies to nonstop payments straight to recipients' stablecoin wallets, portion lone sending accepted fiat USD.

Firms volition wage retired wealth successful fiat USD, and recipients volition person the wealth successful dollar-pegged stablecoins similar Circle’s USDC, the world’s 2nd largest stablecoin by capitalization. It doesn’t look that companies volition beryllium capable to nonstop stablecoins straight via the scheme.

Visa did not notation if oregon erstwhile enactment for stablecoins different than USDC would beryllium added, though it didn't accidental the work would beryllium exclusive to USDC. Anyone who wants to usage the work to person payments volition request some a stablecoin wallet and to walk customary AML/KYC checks, and the aviator is presently constricted to platforms and businesses based successful the U.S.

Visa earmarked the work arsenic being utile for the creator and gig economy. For example, firms similar TikTok oregon YouTube, which present small, irregular payments to millions of radical globally, though nary participants were announced.

Visa says it is successful the process of onboarding partners, with wider entree projected for immoderate constituent successful the 2nd fractional of 2026, depending connected section regulations.  The aviator comes arsenic portion of Visa Direct, the outgo giant’s work that allows users to behaviour payments utilizing its ain outgo rails alternatively than, for example, those of 2 banks.

The payments elephantine besides didn’t corroborate what outgo rails the work mightiness use, but it’s been linking up with Circle connected stablecoin infrastructure arsenic of late.

In precocious October, Circle announced that Visa was among the firms participating successful its caller nationalist testnet for Arc, its Layer-1 blockchain network, alongside companies specified arsenic BlackRock and Goldman Sachs.

Circle Opens Arc Testnet With BlackRock, Visa, AWS Among Its Participants

Visa has made a bid of progressively bullish moves successful the stablecoin abstraction during 2025. In May, it poured an unspecified magnitude into London-based stablecoin infrastructure institution BVNK arsenic a “strategic investment” via its Visa Ventures arm.

Earlier this month, Visa issued a study predicting an accrued relation for stablecoins successful the $40 trillion planetary recognition market, saying that stablecoin-based lending could let accepted institutions to bring parts of that marketplace onto programmable, blockchain-based rails.

Visa Thinks Stablecoins Can Break Into the $40 Trillion Credit Market

Meanwhile, similar rival Mastercard, Visa has been adding enactment for stablecoin-based crypto recognition cards—including with fintech Rain successful the U.S., and Bridge, a portion of payments elephantine Stripe, successful Latin America.