Visa Adds Monad as a New Network for Stablecoin Settlements

Visa has added the Monad blockchain to its stablecoin settlement program, so card issuers and acquirers taking part in the program can now settle payments through Monad. That makes Monad the tenth chain on the list. It follows five chains that Visa added in April 2026.

• Visa has added Monad as a settlement network for issuers and acquirers in its stablecoin settlement program.
• Monad is the tenth chain in the program, after Arc, Base, Canton, Polygon and Tempo joined in April 2026.
• Visa has not yet said which stablecoins can settle on Monad or which partners will use it, and its own release has not surfaced.

For someone holding Monad's token, the change is narrower than the headline sounds. A settlement option means banks and payment firms can route stablecoin payments through Monad. It does not, on its own, mean any of them do. Nothing published so far names an issuer or acquirer that has chosen Monad, or which stablecoins it will carry.

Monad Joins Nine Chains Already on Visa's List

Before this addition, the program covered nine networks:

• Avalanche
• Ethereum
• Solana
• Stellar
• Circle's Arc
• Base
• Canton
• Polygon
• Tempo

The last five on that list came in one batch, announced on 29 April 2026. Monad arrives on its own, about six months later. Placed beside that list, Monad's addition looks like Visa widening the menu for its partners rather than picking a favourite.

This is not Monad's first stablecoin headline this year. It earlier drew attention with the StraitsX stablecoin plan, and that was also a plan, not proof of volume.