(12 August 2026 – United States) Visa Direct has partnered leading onchain infrastructure platform provider zerohash to make stablecoin merchant prefunding and payout capabilities available to Visa Direct clients.
The partnership builds on Visa’s ongoing efforts to expand stablecoin capabilities across its network, enabling stablecoin payouts and prefunding through Visa Direct following the launch of the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) last month.
The integration is designed to give corporates a faster, more flexible way to manage settlement and move money across borders 24/7.
For recipients, the ability to receive payouts directly in stablecoins is intended to increase the velocity of money movement and expand access to onchain money.
zerohash provides the regulatory and technical stack across dozens of blockchains and stablecoins, as well as infrastructure around customer usability.
“Stablecoins are creating new opportunities to make money movement faster and more flexible, particularly for cross-border use cases. We continue to invest in the infrastructure that extends the reach of Visa Direct and gives clients more ways to move money. Working with zerohash helps us bring stablecoin capabilities to our clients at scale, in a way that’s reliable and interoperable with the financial systems they already rely on today” stated Visa Global Head of Product, Mark Nelsen.
“zerohash’s infrastructure powers partners across the payments and money movement stack, including banks like Morgan Stanley, card issuing partners such as Marqeta, and PSPs including Worldpay. Unlocking stablecoin use cases at the core network level further accelerates adoption globally. This partnership helps extend access to onchain money into Visa Direct. It gives businesses a faster way to prefund and manage liquidity across borders, and gives recipients quicker access to money and ultimately more choice” commented zerohash Founder and CEO, Edward Woodford.