Visa Alternatives: 8 Companies Compared company
Why these alternatives
Visa is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 51 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0544. The 8 companies below are the same-type entities that share the most graph neighbors with Visa — the chains, companies, auditors, investors and events that connect them — ranked by shared neighbors, then by their own graph centrality (PageRank).
Comparison table
| # | Alternative | Type | Category | Graph connections | Shared with Visa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stripe | company | — | 30 | 12 |
| 2 | Mastercard | company | — | 53 | 10 |
| 3 | Circle | company | — | 100 | 9 |
| 4 | Standard Chartered | company | — | 38 | 6 |
| 5 | Paradigm | company | — | 38 | 6 |
| 6 | Bridge | company | rail | 24 | 6 |
| 7 | BlackRock | company | — | 101 | 5 |
| 8 | Fireblocks | company | — | 72 | 5 |
The 8 alternatives in detail
1. Stripe
Stripe is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 30 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0350. It shares 12 graph neighbors with Visa, including Solana, USD Coin and Circle. The graph also records a direct “partnered with” relation between Stripe and Visa. Also known as Stripe Inc.
2. Mastercard
Mastercard is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 53 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0522. It shares 10 graph neighbors with Visa, including United States, USD Coin and Circle. The graph also records a direct “competes with” relation between Mastercard and Visa. Also known as Mastercard Inc.
3. Circle
Circle is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 100 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.1134. It shares 9 graph neighbors with Visa, including USD Coin, Coinbase and Mastercard. The graph also records a direct “partnered with” relation between Circle and Visa. Also known as Circle Internet, Circle Internet Financial.
4. Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 38 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0358. It shares 6 graph neighbors with Visa, including Mastercard, Coinbase Global Inc. and Arc (Circle L1).
5. Paradigm
Paradigm is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 38 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0321. It shares 6 graph neighbors with Visa, including United States and Tempo. Also known as Paradigm Capital, Paradigm crypto.
6. Bridge
Bridge is a rail company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 24 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0239. It shares 6 graph neighbors with Visa, including United States, USD Coin and Stripe. The graph also records a direct “partnered with” relation between Bridge and Visa. Also known as Bridge.xyz.
7. BlackRock
BlackRock is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 101 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0977. It shares 5 graph neighbors with Visa, including United States, Circle and Coinbase. Also known as BlackRock Inc.
8. Fireblocks
Fireblocks is a company tracked in the DeFi Intel knowledge graph, with 72 connected entities and a PageRank of 0.0731. It shares 5 graph neighbors with Visa, including United States, Circle and Mastercard.
How this list is built
DeFi Intel maps 11,787 entities and 25,338 relationships extracted from source-cited crypto news and research. An alternative to Visa is defined here as another tracked company ranked by how many knowledge-graph neighbors it shares with Visa, with ties broken by PageRank (graph centrality). Only entities with their own DeFi Intel profile page are listed. This page is generated from the graph data alone and contains no editorial ranking or opinion.
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