The first enabler of the new offering is Inyo Global, a Visa Direct processor that is powering it for eligible Visa Direct clients and partners, according to the release.
Inyo Global has integrated Visa Direct’s stablecoin-enabled prefunding capability into its platform and is giving the businesses it serves the option to pre-fund cross-border payouts through Visa Direct with USDC in near real time, the release said.
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Inyo’s platform provides a single connection through which businesses can onboard users, manage fraud and compliance, accept payments and send domestic and international payouts across more than 180 countries, powered by Visa Direct, per the release.
“By integrating Visa Direct’s stablecoin-enabled prefunding into the Inyo platform, we’re giving the money transmitters, FinTechs and payment companies we serve a new way to fund their payouts, one that is available around the clock and runs through the same Inyo APIs they already use,” Robson Dantas, chief product and technology officer and co-founder at Inyo Global, said in the release.
The launch of the offering follows a year-long initiative in which Visa Direct worked with clients and partners to explore how stablecoins can improve how businesses fund and move money across borders. During the same period, interest in faster, more flexible just-in-time funding continued to grow, according to the release.
Stablecoin prefunding and payout pilot programs introduced by Visa through Visa Direct in 2025 demonstrated how stablecoins could support cross-border funding, liquidity management and global money movement for eligible clients, per the release.
When announcing the prefunding pilot in September 2025, Visa said the pilot let banks, remittance firms and other institutions load stablecoins into Visa Direct as a standing funding source for global disbursements. Visa treated those tokens as available balance, aiming to cut prefunding friction and give treasurers faster access to working capital when moving money across markets. Recipients were still paid in local currency.
When announcing in November 2025 that it was piloting a feature that allows creators and gig workers to receive payouts in dollar-backed stablecoins directly into their wallets, Visa said that this opens the next frontier of network growth: onboarding the long tail of earners who are technically global but financially disconnected.
“Over the last several years, we’ve worked with several partners and clients to explore how these technologies can improve money movement,” Vira Platonova, global head of Visa Direct, said in the Thursday press release. “We’re now seeing those efforts translate into live implementations, helping businesses access more flexible and efficient ways to fund and move money globally through Visa Direct, starting with Inyo Global as our first enabler.”
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