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Agent‑initiated commerce is moving fast. Visa Agentic Ready Program is designed to help issuing banks and payment partners prepare for AI‑driven payments, with a structured program to test, learn, and scale globally. Learn more, link in comments.

Stablecoins aren’t a side project anymore. Visa is now settling at a $7B annual run rate (up 50% QoQ), adding 5 more blockchains to our stablecoin settlement pilot program: Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo. Swipe to hear directly from these partners on how they’re working with Visa.

Visa delivered an outstanding fiscal second quarter. 📈$11.2B net revenue (+17% YoY) 💰$6.0B GAAP net income | $6.3B non-GAAP net income 📊 GAAP EPS up 36% | non-GAAP EPS up 20% Consumer spending remained resilient, and our strategy and innovations fueled momentum across the business. As the leading hyperscaler of payments globally, we are: 1. Providing the network, security and trust needed to make agentic commerce work at scale; 2. establishing Visa’s role as a key interoperability layer between stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure and real-world solutions; 3. and strengthening value-added services like fraud prevention and dispute resolution with AI. Check out our investor site for more: https://vi.sa/4sYGy7d.

Every spring, Visa’s global community of expert advisors meet on the sidelines of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund Meetings to share their evidence-based perspectives on payments and policy to help drive economic empowerment. Todd Fox, President of the Visa Economic Empowerment Institute, breaks down what is top of mind for them this year.

What happens when AI moves from advising us… to acting for us? The question of autonomous AI came up again and again at HumanX this year. These are systems that don’t just recommend decisions, but can increasingly take action on our behalf. As the shift accelerates, the conversation quickly moves beyond model capability to something more fundamental: trust. In this video, President of Technology, Rajat Taneja, reflected on why building trust foundations is essential to safely scale what comes next. What’s your take?

In this episode of Policy Sandbox, Todd Fox speaks with Cuy Sheffield about how stablecoins and other digital assets are blurring the lines between TradFi and DeFi. Tune in to hear what this convergence means for global payments and the next phase of stablecoin innovation: https://vi.sa/4cF2wpY

Validator nodes might sound like a technical, inside baseball crypto thing, but they’re really just the systems that keep blockchain networks honest and running smoothly. Check our our blog: Get to Node, where we unpack what validator nodes do, why Visa is running them, and how that supports secure, scalable, and regulated finance onchain across blockchains. If you’ve been curious about how this all works—this one’s for you. 👉 Start with the basics: https://vi.sa/41D9uqg

Milestone unlocked. After years of building deep expertise in blockchain, Visa is taking the next step by helping run critical blockchain infrastructure – directly joining the Tempo network as an anchor validator. By operating as an anchor validator during this initial phase, Visa is helping ensure Tempo operates with the reliability, resilience, and performance required for emerging payment use cases. Learn more about Visa x Tempo: https://vi.sa/4vuZrRA

Businesses need an easy way to connect to and participate in AI-powered commerce. Intelligent Commerce Connect is a new pilot solution to help make agentic commerce simple and scalable, initially supporting select card networks, with plans to expand network compatibility over time. ⚡ For agent builders: one integration to securely initiate payments across major agent protocols, without locking you into a single token vault provider. 🛍️ For merchants: seamlessly accept agent-initiated payments and get your products discovered directly on AI platforms. Simple. Secure. Scalable. Learn more: https://vi.sa/3QsHrqY

A new customer segment has emerged in marketing. Traditionally, the industry has focused on marketing to consumers, known as B2C. Similarly, businesses are familiar with marketing to other businesses, B2B. Now, as demand for AI-powered commerce increases, the industry is adapting to a new approach: marketing to AI. Frank Cooper III explains the concept of B2AI on the NYSE Inside the Ice House Podcast. While businesses are beginning to embrace this shift, consumer adoption is happening at a slower pace. What are their motivations, what are the blockers? Dig into the findings of the Visa Business-to-AI (B2AI) report conducted with Morning Consult: https://vi.sa/4bXszJQ