Visa bets on stablecoin payments with Dunamu

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Visa partners with Dunamu

Highlights

Visa is expanding into stablecoin payments.
Dunamu brings digital-asset infrastructure.
Global transfers and settlement are in focus.
AI commerce is part of the broader roadmap.

The companies unveiled their partnership roadmap at the Visa Global Market Support Center in San Francisco, Cointelegraph reported. The agreement covers stablecoin-based payments and money transfers, as well as future payment systems combining artificial intelligence with digital assets.

Visa pushes stablecoins into global payments

Visa and Dunamu plan to examine ways to connect stablecoins with established payment infrastructure across major international markets. Their work will cover cross-border transfers, payments, and settlement, with the broader goal of finding practical uses for digital assets beyond cryptocurrency trading.

Visa brings an extensive global payment network to the partnership, while Dunamu contributes infrastructure and expertise developed through its digital-asset businesses. The companies plan to develop potential services gradually, with regulatory requirements, interoperability, stability, and transparency shaping how individual products are introduced.

The partnership will also examine business models built around OUSD, a stablecoin based on the recently introduced open standard. No timetable for launching a commercial product has been announced.

Visa extends its strategy into AI commerce

Visa is also using the partnership to explore how artificial intelligence could change the way payments are initiated and settled. The companies plan to study services that combine AI systems with stablecoin-based payment and settlement infrastructure.

Agentic commerce is one area under consideration. Such systems allow AI agents to search for products and services and then complete purchases on behalf of users. Visa and Dunamu will examine the technical infrastructure and payment mechanisms needed to support these transactions.

The project gives Visa another opportunity to test digital assets within a global payments environment rather than treating stablecoins as a separate financial system. Dunamu provides the blockchain and digital-asset capabilities needed to examine how those transactions could work in practice.

Stablecoins meet established payment networks

For Visa, the agreement reflects a broader effort to determine where stablecoins can fit within international payments. Cross-border transfers are particularly relevant because blockchain-based settlement could provide another route for moving value between markets.

The partnership does not yet amount to a commercial rollout. Its importance instead comes from combining Visa's global payment infrastructure with Dunamu's digital-asset technology while placing regulatory compliance at the center of development.

If the companies move from testing to deployment, the work could extend stablecoins into global transfers, payment settlement, and AI-initiated purchases. For Visa, that would broaden its role as payment activity increasingly spans traditional financial networks and blockchain-based infrastructure.

We have previously highlighted that Visa partners with ZeroHash to broaden stablecoin payments.

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