Visa Adds Monad to Stablecoin Settlement Network

The significance here is less about Monad specifically than about the direction of travel: Visa is widening the set of chains it will settle on, and the seven-day model quietly chips at the weekend and holiday gaps that define traditional correspondent banking. Institutions moving stablecoin funds are the immediate beneficiaries, though the competitive subtext is hard to miss given Mastercard's similar move. What's worth watching is whether adding networks translates into actual settlement volume rather than announcement symmetry, and whether the round-the-clock model becomes a baseline expectation across card networks.