Visa said on Oct. 15 that the stablecoin functionality inside its enterprise payout network, Visa Direct, has moved from pilot stage to commercial operation. In a company release, Visa said Inyo Global is the first Visa Direct processor to put stablecoin prefunding into live commercial use, giving businesses a way to prefund cross-border payouts with USDC.
Inyo Global becomes the first live rollout
Visa said Inyo Global, a payments infrastructure provider, serves remittance companies, fintech firms, banks and payment providers. The company has integrated the feature into its platform, letting clients prefund cross-border payouts sent through Visa Direct with USDC on a near real-time basis rather than relying only on traditional funding windows.
The service is open to eligible Visa Direct clients and partners, though actual availability depends on qualification and region.
Through a single integration, Inyo’s platform offers onboarding, fraud prevention and compliance, pay-ins, and domestic as well as cross-border payouts through Visa Direct in more than 180 countries. Robson Dantas, co-founder and chief product and technology officer at Inyo Global, said the setup gives clients another way to fund payouts around the clock, 「and through the Inyo API they already use」.
Visa has already tested stablecoin prefunding and payouts
Visa launched two Visa Direct pilot programs in 2025 covering stablecoin prefunding and payouts. According to The Block, the company started testing stablecoin prefunding in September 2025, initially with support for USDC and EURC. In November that year, it also tested USDC payouts, allowing eligible recipients to receive stablecoins directly.
In August this year, Visa also announced a partnership with zerohash to support stablecoin funding and payouts through Visa Direct. The Block separately reported that earlier this month, Visa ran a seven-day USDC trial with Lloyds in the UK, settling $750,000 in payment volume. Funds reached Visa within one hour, including on weekends.
Visa says stablecoins are moving toward broader adoption
Vira Platonova, global head of Visa Direct, said: "The next chapter for stablecoins is mainstream adoption. Over the last few years, we have worked with a number of partners and clients to explore how these technologies can improve money movement, and those efforts are now turning into live deployments, with Inyo Global as the first one."
Visa said Platonova is also scheduled to speak in several sessions at the Money20/20 USA conference next week on how stablecoins are changing global money movement.