Mesh partners with Visa to enable crypto spending directly from wallets

The significance here is less about a new payment rail than about where the crypto-to-fiat conversion happens: pushing it into the wallet layer rather than a card issuer or exchange, with Visa's network supplying the settlement endpoint. That matters to wallet providers, stablecoin issuers and card programs whose value depends on being the intermediary between balances and merchants. The absence of disclosed timing and fees is the real gap, since both determine whether this is a broadly usable feature or a limited pilot. Whether the model spreads to other networks and wallets, and how the economics are eventually structured, is the open question.