The three largest payment giants in the world already support $XLM

These three companies together processed approximately 25 trillion US dollars in 2024.

Their current convergence in the #stellar ecosystem tells you everything about the future of payments.

Let's take a look at how each of them does that.

Visa: Adding Stellar to the Stellar network to support stablecoin settlements in early August.

Tala Wallet for payments $USDC via Stellar, allowing users to pay and settle using #USDC on Stellar through Visa services.

PayPal: Stellar was chosen to be the third chain after SOL and ETH to integrate PYUSD, and the former Senior Vice President of Digital Currency at PayPal joined Stellar as the Head of Growth.

Mastercard: Stellar was integrated into the Mastercard network for cryptocurrency credentials to verify transactions and compliance.

Furthermore, Mastercard stated, after initial steps, that it plans to bring Mastercard services on-chain to the Stellar ecosystem.

All of these partnerships share one feature, in addition to all being connected to Stellar.

They are all preparing for the future of digital payments, eager to maintain the role of their existing infrastructure.

Visa = Support + Stablecoin Settlement

PayPal = Integration of Stablecoin Payments

Mastercard = On-Chain Financial Services