Visa, Mastercard & BlackRock

Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock and some of the most powerful institutions in global finance are moving directly onto the blockchain.

Circle has named major financial companies as founding validators for its Arc blockchain, while Visa and Mastercard are building the infrastructure needed for banks, businesses and payment providers to use stablecoins at scale.

In this Daily Crypto Deep Dive, we examine how stablecoins, tokenized assets and blockchain settlement are being absorbed into the existing financial system.

Are Visa and Mastercard being replaced by crypto—or are they positioning themselves to control its most valuable infrastructure?

We also explore BlackRock’s tokenized assets, DTCC’s blockchain strategy, Visa’s stablecoin platform, Mastercard’s growing compliance network and what institutional adoption could mean for ordinary crypto investors.

The crypto revolution may still be happening—but Wall Street has entered the control room.

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