Visa Direct Puts USDC Prefunding Into Production With Inyo Global

This matters less as a stablecoin story than as a settlement-infrastructure one: a card network is now running stablecoin prefunding in live commercial use rather than a pilot, which shifts USDC from a treasury curiosity toward working capital for payout providers. The immediate beneficiaries are cross-border payment providers already on Inyo's APIs, who gain round-the-clock funding without rebuilding integrations. The open question is whether other networks and corridors follow Visa's lead, and whether prefunding via stablecoins becomes a default rather than an exception for cross-border settlement.