Deutsch Telecom operates Chainlink nodes, which are a decentralized method of writing data to the chain. They are paid in LINK for providing this service.
And Visa clearly said: that Anchorage will be its “digital asset settlement agent” and that it will “integrate [its] treasury systems with Anchorage.”
“After further testing and additional conversations with clients, partners and members of the regulatory community, we hope to launch this capability for other partners in the year ahead,” Visa said in a blog post about the news.
Sorry, man, nowhere in this press release it says Visa is settling transactions on the ethereum blockchain. It says it "plans to offer USDC settlement capability" in the future. And in the footnote they specifically say that this "does not refer to the movement of funds from individual consumer accounts". Deutsch Telecom hasn't even done a press release, so we don't know what their alleged involvement with Chainlink entails other than presumably selling them some data. If this is the best evidence of a supposed trend of blockchain technology adoption in the business world, it strongly suggests that such a trend does not exist at all.
And Visa clearly said: that Anchorage will be its “digital asset settlement agent” and that it will “integrate [its] treasury systems with Anchorage.”
“After further testing and additional conversations with clients, partners and members of the regulatory community, we hope to launch this capability for other partners in the year ahead,” Visa said in a blog post about the news.
Read it from their official press release, a couple times: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.rele...