Visa Stablecoin Flows Hit $7B, Bitcoin Holds $63K as 40% of Swing Voters Back Crypto

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Visa unveiled a sweeping expansion of its digital-payments stack, confirming that stablecoin settlement across VisaNet has reached an annualized run-rate of roughly $7 billion as of March 2026. The company said seven-day-a-week settlement with issuing banks is already live and will extend to acquirers, while more than 160 card programs tied to stablecoin balances are operating or in development. Visa also detailed plans for a tokenized-deposit layer letting banks convert traditional deposits into programmable money, and announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed secure payments across its platforms via the new Visa Intelligent Commerce framework built for autonomous AI agents.

A fresh voter survey from Digital Currency Group and Harris Poll found that 40% of registered voters in U.S. swing states now treat crypto policy as a key election issue — double the 20% recorded in 2024. Ownership in battleground states climbed to 37% from 26%, while those currently holding rose to 25% from 14%. Support for a clear regulatory framework reached 81%, and 47% said they would consider crossing party lines to back a candidate supporting the CLARITY market-structure bill. The findings signal that digital-asset policy has shifted from a niche concern into a mainstream campaign variable across contested states.

Bitget rolled out a Zero-Fee Mode for its CFD product, adding a commission-free account option alongside the existing ECN structure aimed at high-frequency traders. The launch follows rapid growth: according to the exchange's official announcement, CFD daily trading volume reached $8 billion in May 2026, closing in on the $10 billion milestone. The exchange noted that multi-asset demand is intensifying, with non-crypto products accounting for as much as 40% of total trading on some days this year. Gold and U.S. equity indices such as NAS100 remain the most popular instruments, underscoring a broader convergence of crypto and traditional-finance access on a single platform.

Separately, Bitget broadened its blockchain-based tokenized-equity lineup with 30 new stock-spot assets under its Stock 2.0 program, live since June 8. The additions span space exploration, entertainment, healthcare, defense and electric vehicles, including tokenized exposure to Disney, Lucid Group, Lockheed Martin, Coca-Cola and CRISPR Therapeutics. The move builds on a recent integration of 49 U.S. stocks and ETFs and an upgrade allowing equity tokens to serve as margin collateral. The exchange now offers access to more than 100 stock tokens and ETFs, reinforcing a strategy of merging digital assets and traditional markets within one interconnected trading environment.

Regulatory pressure surfaced elsewhere as the International Monetary Fund urged Nepal to closely monitor crypto activity despite the country's outright ban. In its 2026 Article IV consultation, the Fund noted that stablecoin and unbacked-asset flows grew markedly between 2019 and 2024, with inflows topping $2.6 billion in 2021 — briefly exceeding 13% of GDP — before settling near 8% by 2024. The IMF warned that prohibition has not stemmed usage and called for a framework aligned with international standards to curb capital-control evasion and deposit outflows. The case highlights how enforcement-only approaches struggle against persistent grassroots adoption.

Macro cross-currents weighed on sentiment ahead of SpaceX's Nasdaq debut, with the rocket maker valued near $1.77 trillion but decentralized prediction markets pricing a first-day close between $1.8 trillion and $2.1 trillion. Polymarket traders assigned a 64% probability of an above-$2-trillion close. The listing is being watched as a test of the theory that IPO demand has drained risk capital from crypto. On-chain and treasury data show corporate Bitcoin buying has collapsed from roughly $500 million per day to near-negligible levels, compounding spot-ETF outflows that have pressured prices during the recent downturn.

Taken together, these developments sketch a market caught between deepening institutional infrastructure and fragile near-term sentiment. COINOTAG's aggregate data underscores the tension: Bitcoin trades near $63,000 with Bitcoin dominance at 70.4%, total crypto market capitalization sits around $1.8 trillion, and the Fear & Greed Index has sunk to 12 — firmly in extreme-fear, bear-market territory that has dragged most altcoins lower. Visa's stablecoin scaling, expanding tokenized-equity access and a hardening voter mandate point to durable structural adoption, yet collapsing corporate treasury demand and ETF outflows explain the defensive tape. The long-term plumbing is being laid even as short-term capital sits on the sidelines.