Solayer Pay has gone physical: the crypto payments app launched a Visa debit card on May 14 that lets users spend USDC at merchants and withdraw cash from ATMs worldwide.
Announced via GlobeNewswire, the new Visa card links directly to a user’s Solayer Pay balance and routes transactions to the on-chain settlement layer powered by Solayer’s infiniSVM network. “Crypto payments only become meaningful when they integrate naturally into everyday life,” said Margie Feng, Solayer’s marketing lead. “The physical card brings stablecoin spending into familiar payment experiences while keeping users connected to the speed and efficiency of onchain infrastructure.”
How to get the card
- Order through the Solayer Pay app (mobile or web).
- Existing Solayer Pay account holders receive the physical card free of charge.
- New users must open an account and pay a $20 annual activation fee.
From virtual to physical
This release builds on Solayer Pay’s earlier product, the Emerald Card, which debuted as a virtual Visa card in April 2025 and integrated with Apple Pay and Google Pay. That virtual offering reached roughly 40,000 users across more than 100 countries before the platform expanded into a physical card.
Market context and infrastructure
The launch arrives as stablecoin payment rails scale rapidly. In March 2026, Visa and Stripe’s Bridge extended their stablecoin card program to 18 countries with ambitions to cover 100+ countries by year-end. Visa’s stablecoin settlement pilot has also climbed to $7 billion and spans nine blockchains, underlining growing institutional appetite for on-chain settlement.
USDC remains the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization at about $78 billion. The wider stablecoin market grew from $243 billion in May 2025 to $322 billion a year later, per DefiLlama.
Solayer’s infiniSVM claims high-throughput performance—about 330,000 transactions per second with ~400ms finality—which the company positions as the settlement backbone for instant, on-chain USDC payments via the new card.
Why it matters
The physical Visa card puts stablecoins closer to everyday spending behavior—bridging crypto rails and legacy payment infrastructure. For users, it promises a familiar payment experience powered by on-chain settlement; for the industry, it’s another sign that stablecoins are moving from experimental rails toward mainstream payment use cases.
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