{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-10/visa-monad-stablecoin-settlement","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-10/visa-monad-stablecoin-settlement.md","title":"Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement Network","headline":"Visa Adds Monad Blockchain to Stablecoin Settlement Program, Joining Nine Networks","description":"Visa adds Monad to its stablecoin settlement program, giving issuers and acquirers another blockchain option alongside a $20 billion annualized run rate.","section":"Partnerships","published_at":"2026-11-10T14:19:03+00:00","modified_at":"2026-11-10T14:19:03+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Visa added Monad to its stablecoin settlement program, joining Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, Circle's Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo.","Visa reported an annualized stablecoin settlement run rate of $20 billion as of September 2026, up more than 15x year over year.","Monad is developing a Private Settlement feature that lets institutions keep transaction details private while sharing them with auditors or regulators."],"companies":[{"name":"Visa","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00007cz/visa","website":"https://www.visa.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"The Block","title":"Visa adds Monad to stablecoin settlement network options","url":"https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-11-10-visa-monad-stablecoin-settlement-network-437201"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Partnerships","Visa"],"body_markdown":"[Visa](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00007cz/visa) has added the Monad blockchain as an option in its stablecoin settlement program, letting participating issuers and acquirers settle through the network. [The Block](https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2026-11-10-visa-monad-stablecoin-settlement-network-437201) reported the addition on November 10, 2026.\n\n## Monad Joins Visa's Settlement Network Options\n\nMonad joins blockchains Visa already supports for the program: Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, Circle's Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo. Visa announced support for the latter five in April.\n\nThe Monad Foundation said blockchain settlement lets funds move on weekends and holidays as well, compared with traditional card settlement, which runs on a five-business-day banking schedule.\n\n\"Our goal is to give our partners the flexibility to settle on the blockchain networks that best meet their needs,\" Dan Roesbery, Visa's vice president of global onchain partnerships and GTM, said in a statement. \"Adding support for Monad expands the options available to our partners and is another step toward building a multi-chain settlement infrastructure for stablecoin-enabled payments.\"\n\nVisa reported an annualized stablecoin settlement run rate of $20 billion as of September 2026, up more than 15x year over year. It also had more than 225 stablecoin-linked card programs live globally.\n\n## Monad's Private Settlement Feature for Institutions\n\nMonad is developing a privacy feature for institutions, expected to launch in the coming months. Called Private Settlement, it will let institutions keep sensitive transaction details private while allowing them to share those details with auditors or regulators when needed, the foundation said.\n\nThe feature is being built directly into Monad, so private transactions can use the same liquidity as other transactions on the network, the foundation said, adding that Monad can support this without slowing down settlement.\n\n\"The next phase will be defined by whether institutions can keep sensitive flows confidential without leaving open networks,\" Keone Hon, co-founder and general manager of the Monad Foundation, said in a statement.\n\nVisa has also been exploring private settlement on Canton. In June, it announced a proof of concept with stablecoin issuer Brale to test settlement using its dollar-backed SBC token. The initiative focuses on how institutions can settle onchain while controlling who can see sensitive transaction data.\n\n## Visa's Earlier Onchain and Partnership Moves\n\nAccording to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Visa announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI in June 2026 to integrate Visa Intelligent Commerce APIs into AI-powered shopping, pairing Visa's tokenization, authorization and fraud-monitoring with frontier LLMs for agentic checkout.\n\nThe same records show Visa launched Visa Destinations globally in June 2026, a cardholder-only travel benefits platform live in 10 cities with anchor partners Santander, Global Blue, Star Alliance and Trip.com Group.\n\nIn July 2026, X announced that X Money early public access will launch featuring 6% APY deposits through Cross River Bank and P2P payments facilitated by Visa, building on the recent rollout of Smart Cashtags in the United States and Canada, according to the same records.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}