Visa has joined the Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, one of 40 entities helping extend privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions worldwide. The move addresses a core challenge for regulated institutions: balancing blockchain transparency with privacy requirements.
Canton Network is a public, permissionless blockchain designed for institutional finance with privacy integrated from inception. As a Super Validator with voting powers, Visa will help clients run and secure operations on the network, enabling experimentation with stablecoin payments, settlement, and treasury use cases while maintaining existing risk and compliance practices.
Visa’s participation builds on its existing digital asset work, including stablecoin settlement reaching a $4.6 billion annualized run rate globally, stablecoin-linked cards across 130-plus programs in over 50 countries, and its Stablecoins Advisory Practice. The Canton Network has gained wide adoption in capital markets for tokenized financial asset issuance and trading, and Visa’s participation now connects capital markets with payments infrastructure.