Visa and Stripe's Bridge Taking Stablecoin Cards to 100+ Countries
Visa and Stripe's Bridge are massively expanding their stablecoin-linked card partnership from 18 countries to over 100.
The world's largest payments network and the world's biggest fintech are going big on stablecoins together.
Visa and Bridge — Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure arm — are planning to dramatically scale their partnership by issuing stablecoin-linked cards in more than 100 countries. The cards are already live in 18 countries today.
The expansion represents a major push to make stablecoin spending practical at global scale. Instead of requiring merchants to accept crypto directly, the cards let users spend stablecoin balances anywhere Visa is accepted — which is basically everywhere.
For Stripe, which acquired Bridge to deepen its crypto infrastructure play, this is a clear signal that stablecoins aren't a side project. For Visa, it's another step toward integrating digital assets into traditional payment rails.
Going from 18 to 100+ countries is ambitious. But with Visa's reach and Stripe's plumbing, the infrastructure is already there.