Visa Joins Canton Network as First Major Payments Company to Serve as Super Validator, Bringing Privacy-Preserving Payments to Regulated Finance Institutions.

Visa will join the Canton Network as a Super Validator, helping to extend privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions globally. As a Super Validator, Visa will apply its trusted standards to secure and operate critical payment systems on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to use shared infrastructure without exposing sensitive information. This move supports Visa's broader stablecoin strategy and enables institutions to experiment with and scale stablecoin payments, settlement, and treasury use cases without changing their operations.