SAN FRANCISCO–Visa said it is partnering with stablecoin infrastructure provider startup Bridge to offer stablecoin-linked Visa cards to customers across multiple countries in Latin America, allowing users to make everyday purchases in cryptocurrency tokens.
The move comes at the same time Congress is pondering legislation that would create stablecoin rules for the first time in the U.S.
Bridge, which was acquired by Stripe earlier in 2025, said it will work on the back-end of transactions that cardholders make with their linked Visa cards to deduct funds from a user’s stablecoin balance and then will convert the payment into the local currency for merchants.
“Through the partnership with Visa, developers building products on Bridge will be able to add stablecoin-linked Visa cards to their slate of offerings,” the organizations said. “Users will be able to use the stablecoin-linked cards at any merchants that accept Visa.”
Expansion Around World
According to Visa and Bridge, new card programs can be issued in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Chile. Visa and Bridge said that the product will become available in Europe, Africa and Asia in the coming months.
“We feel like the moment is now to take some of the things that we’ve already been doing in a more experimental, pilot basis and start to expose them to the world as capabilities that we anticipate will really start to become big and meaningful and globally scalable,” Jack Forestell, chief product and strategy officer at Visa, said in a statement.
