Influencers see Visa announcement to use USDC as milestone move

Visa has recently become the first major payments network to settle transactions in USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin backed by the US dollar, over open source blockchain Ethereum. Against this backdrop, the company witnessed a 300% jump in influencer conversations on Twitter during the last week of March 2021 over the previous week, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Visa partnered with digital asset bank Anchorage and Crypto.com for payment settlements. This is one of the major turning points for the company as it joined its peers such as Mastercard and PayPal for boosting the usage of cryptocurrency.

An analysis of GlobalData’s Visa Inc, Company Influencer Platform, which tracks leading industry experts and their discussions on Twitter, revealed Crypto, Ethereum, #Usdc, #Bitcoin, #Stablecoin and #Fintech were the most mentioned trends and hashtags among influencer discussions during the same period.

Smitarani Tripathy, Influencer Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The influencers discussing on Visa see the company’s announcement to allow the use of cryptocurrency for transaction settlement as a milestone move for the industry. This is not only an upgrade to the transaction settlement system but also showcase the growing acceptance of digital currencies by the financial industry.”

Below are a few most popular tweets captured by GlobalData’s Influencer Platform:

1. Dr Efi Pylarinou, Finance Influencer:

“Symbolic transaction! Congrats to @cryptocom @Anchorage @Visa

Visa empowers most #cards of #crypto companies

#Visa conducts first settlement transaction in USD Coin”

https://twitter.com/efipm/status/1376533602561880064

2. Andrey Golub, DeepTech Entrepreneur:

“#Visa settles 1st payment transaction with #crypto in ‘milestone’ move for industry“

https://twitter.com/aVg/status/1376638638319136768

3. Scott Garliss Stansberry, Editor of Stansberry NewsWire:

“Visa announced it will allow payment settlements in USD Coin cryptocurrency. It joins Mastercard, Tesla, and PayPal in boosting widespread usage. This should drive increases for cryptos in general, boosting the price outlook.”

https://twitter.com/SG_Stansberry/status/1376865305922797571

4. Rob Crasco, Co-Owner of Cyber Adept:

“Visa Inc. said it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency #USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network, the latest sign of growing acceptance of #digital currencies

#Visa moves to allow #payment settlements using #cryptocurrency”

https://twitter.com/RoblemVR/status/1376872597749690369