Tag: Visa

Visa’s innovative solution employs Ethereum’s ERC-4337 standard and the “Paymaster” smart contract, enabling off-chain gas fee settlement. In a potential transformative move for users, Visa, the payments solution provider, is testing an innovative solution enabling on-chain gas fees to be paid using a Visa card. Mustafa Bedawala, a product manager at Visa, presented the report, highlighting an observed challenge with cryptocurrency wallets;…

Visa’s upcoming crypto product is designed to drive mainstream adoption of public blockchain networks and stablecoin payments. Global payment giant Visa continues to explore the benefits of the cryptocurrency industry with a new initiative focused on stablecoin payments. Cuy Sheffield, head of crypto at Visa, took to Twitter on April 24 to announce a new…

BTC’s market cap has climbed to the 11th spot amongst top assets by market cap and now sits behind electric vehicle maker Tesla. Despite a turbulent week for crypto following the downfall of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, Bitcoin market cap has managed to flip that of tech giant Meta. At the time of…

While the collapse of FTX shaved $100 billion off of BTC’s market cap in just four days last year, BTC has managed to fully recover and stack on another $65 billion. A 48% Bitcoin price surge since the start of the year has pushed BTC’s market cap past that of payment processing giant Visa once again….

Amid a massive downturn in the crypto market, stablecoin usage and adoption are still increasing. Stablecoin settlement reached $8 trillion in 2022, rivaling Visa with $12 trillion. According to CoinMetrics, the total value settled by them in 2021 was just over $6 trillion. In 2022, the value settled could top $8 trillion. Peter Johnson, co-head…

Payments company Visa has ended its partnership with crypto exchange FTX amid its ongoing collapse. FTX announced that it was launching a Visa debit card in more than 40 countries just in October. Payments giant Visa has terminated its partnership with FTX after the cryptocurrency exchange’s recent collapse, Reuters reported.  “The situation with FTX is…