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Aiming at enabling digital asset issuing and management, Visa has revealed its new Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP). Starting on October 3, the platform is meant to enable a range of tokenized assets, including stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), therefore representing a major milestone in Visa’s development into blockchain technology.
Currently in its sandbox phase, VTAP is under testing by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), with an eye on important digital asset minting, transfer, and settling capabilities. Offering end-to-end infrastructure across both public and private blockchains, the platform is positioned to mostly serve central banks and institutional investors.
Bridging Finance and Blockchain
Vanessa Colella, Visa’s global head of innovation and digital alliances, underlined the company’s excitement about using its tokenizing knowledge to enable banks to incorporate blockchain technologies. She underlined how VTAP may simplify difficult banking processes by means of smart contracts and fiat-backed tokens automating credit line management. Banks might also let consumers buy treasuries or tokenized goods with an almost real-time chain of events.
Starting with the Ethereum blockchain, the massive financial services company wants to introduce VTAP in a live experimental phase in 2025. The ability of VTAP to connect banks via a single API to access different use cases by means of interoperability across several blockchains is a major asset. For banks engaged with both permitted and public blockchains, this would offer a flawless experience.
Visa remains under legal assault notwithstanding these developments. On September 24, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Visa for an antitrust claim alleging Visa kept a monopoly on debit transactions. Furthermore, a paper by Accountable. The US charged Visa and Mastercard with running a duopoly meant to stifle competition in the debit and credit card markets.
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