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Visa said it is adding the Monad blockchain to a stablecoin settlement program and is connecting its IDX identity and fraud tooling to Global Payments’ authentication services, aiming to support faster payments flows and stronger risk checks across multiple networks.
Visa has introduced Monad, a blockchain focused on smart contracts and decentralized finance, into a stablecoin settlement option tied to its payments network, according to a report published Tuesday by Yahoo Finance. The change is part of Visa’s broader effort to let participating partners settle certain stablecoin-related transactions across multiple blockchain networks, rather than relying on a single chain.
Stablecoin settlement is Visa’s approach to using blockchain-based digital assets in payment and settlement workflows while still operating within Visa’s existing fraud, risk, and authentication framework. In the Yahoo Finance report, Visa’s move toward additional blockchain support was described as a new multi-chain capability that includes Monad.
The report also pointed to a separate but related product push on authentication and fraud prevention. Visa’s identity and risk API offering, known as IDX, is being integrated into Global Payments’ Adaptive Authentication service, which is designed to help merchants and financial institutions validate customers and reduce fraud during online and card-not-present transactions.
IDX, in Visa’s portfolio, is positioned as an application programming interface that helps businesses assess identity indicates and risk. In the context of the Global Payments integration, the idea is that merchants using Adaptive Authentication can call Visa’s IDX capabilities to support identity verification and fraud screening as transactions are initiated.
Global Payments’ Adaptive Authentication service is built to respond to risk indicates in real time, adjusting how it authenticates customers based on the assessed likelihood of fraud. By pairing this adaptive authentication layer with Visa’s IDX API, the companies are effectively linking transaction and identity indicates to the authentication decision process.
While the report did not provide specific performance metrics or deployment timelines, it framed the combined effort as a move to connect digital asset settlement infrastructure with established payment security tooling. For Visa, that approach matters because stablecoin settlement and digital payments both introduce fraud and operational risks that need to be managed at the edge of payment authorization and identity checks.
Visa’s multi-chain direction reflects a wider industry shift in which payment firms and their fintech partners seek interoperability across blockchain networks. Rather than treating each blockchain as a standalone experiment, Visa’s description of Monad as an additional settlement option suggests an attempt to standardize parts of settlement and risk tooling so partners can adopt new networks without rebuilding everything.
The report did not disclose financial terms, the number of partner institutions involved, or whether Visa’s Monad option is live for all participating markets. It also did not clarify which stablecoin issuers or transaction types are covered under the expanded settlement program, nor did it specify the scope of the IDX integration within Global Payments’ Adaptive Authentication workflows.
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