# Visa > Visa, a trusted leader in digital payments. Visa is a payments company that operates a global network connecting consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. It processes card-based transactions and has expanded into stablecoin settlement and tokenization services. Visa is a payments company that operates a global network connecting financial institutions, merchants, businesses, and government entities. It provides the infrastructure that allows consumers to make purchases with Visa branded cards and enables banks and fintechs to move money domestically and across borders. The company serves a broad range of participants, from individual cardholders and merchants to large financial institutions and governments seeking payment infrastructure. The company operates a proprietary transaction processing network that authorizes, clears, and settles payments between issuing and acquiring banks. Beyond traditional card rails, it has extended into digital asset infrastructure, offering wallet and key management technology that lets institutional clients mint, manage, and transfer stablecoins across multiple blockchains. This addresses demand from banks and crypto native platforms for consistent controls and settlement options as digital payment methods diversify. Its offerings span consumer and commercial card programs, real time money movement services for payouts and disbursements, and a stablecoin platform that supports treasury, settlement, and program operations for institutional clients. Visa also provides data, fraud management, and consulting services to support clients operating its network. It is used by consumers, merchants, financial institutions, fintechs, and government entities worldwide. - Type: Company - Sector: Payments - Status: Active - Founded: 1958-09-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/visa ## Products - [Visa Tokenized Asset Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/visa): Visa Tokenized Asset Platform is a developer tooling product that lets financial institutions issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on blockchain networks. It provides an API layer connecting to blockchain infrastructure and a Visa-developed standard for token issuance, with a sandbox testing environment for banks to experiment before production use. The platform targets issuer and acquirer banks seeking to tokenize fiat currency for payment use cases. (Developer Tooling, Early access) - [Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard](https://thegrid.id/profiles/visa): Visa Onchain Analytics Dashboard is a data terminal that provides analytics on stablecoin activity across multiple blockchain networks. It tracks transaction volumes, supply metrics, and active wallet addresses, filtering bot activity to surface organic transaction data. Analysts and researchers use it to monitor market intelligence for fiat-backed stablecoins without executing trades. (Data Terminal, Live) - [Visa Card Network](https://thegrid.id/profiles/visa): Visa Card Network is a card issuance infrastructure product that lets financial institutions and fintech companies issue Visa-branded payment cards through partner integrations. It handles authorization, settlement, and merchant acceptance across the Visa network, enabling issued cards to function at merchant locations globally. Partners can configure funding sources and account types, including stablecoin-funded cards, while relying on Visa's processing rails. (Card issuance, Live, Main Product) - [Visa Stablecoin Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/visa): Visa Stablecoin Platform is a financial services platform that lets crypto-native companies, fintechs, and financial institutions manage stablecoin activity through a single operating environment. It combines onchain wallet infrastructure, access to a stablecoin issued under an open standard, fiat-to-stablecoin on-ramps and off-ramps, and stablecoin-based payments and payouts, with approval controls and compliance screening built in. Businesses use it to handle treasury, settlement, and program operations without integrating separate wallet, ramp, and compliance vendors. The platform is in limited availability, with some components such as wallet infrastructure and stablecoin access offered in beta. 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