Visa Becomes First Major Payments Company to Join Canton Network as Super Validator

Visa announced Wednesday that it will join Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, helping extend privacy-preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions worldwide. The payments giant will be one of 40 Super Validators on the layer-1 Canton network, applying "the same trusted and reliable standards it uses to operate critical payment systems today," it said in an announcement. As a Super Validator with voting powers to shape Canton' ...