Payments giant Visa is growing at its fastest rate in years, but it’s not because of some of its latest innovations in digital currencies and agentic AI. Visa first started offering stablecoin settlements in 2023 and now has 130 stablecoin-linked card issuing programs across 40 countries. It’s also experimenting with agentic commerce, or allowing AI agents to make payments on their own. Yet just $7 billion of annual settlements on Visa’s platform are made in cryptocurrencies, compared with $14 trillion overall. “I’m hesitant to lean into the stablecoin and agentic commerce narratives too much,” Chris Suh, Visa’s ... (full story)