(25 March 2025 – United States) Visa is in talks with Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s World Network to link on-chain card features to a self-custody crypto wallet.
The blockchain-based ecosystem expanding Worldcoin’s biometric identification system capability is seeking to transform World Network wallets into a “mini bank account” for anyone who desires it. Major card networks have been working with crypto projects and wallet providers to explore ways their large networks can usefully overlap with the world of digital assets.
The aim is to deliver a range of fintech and FX applications, fiat on and off-ramps and enable stablecoin-based payments to thousands of merchants around the world that are part of the Visa network.
“The plan is to build up a whole connected wallet strategy so that you can trade in all kinds of things, from FX to crypto, load to wallet, send to wallet, spend from card. Basically to turn World Wallet into a mini bank account for anyone who wants it” a source familiar with the plans informed CoinDesk Senior Reporter Ian Allison.