Tag: Mastercard
Bitcoin Lightning Network is 1,000x cheaper than Visa and MasterCard: Data
Fresh data from Glassnode demonstrates that Bitcoin's (BTC) Lightning Network is significantly cheaper to use than legacy payment networks. The median [...]
Mastercard Drops Free NFTs, Launches Web3 Music Accelerator
“As a company, we hope to help people and partners around the world better understand and trust how blockchain and digital assets are used – and how o [...]
Mastercard launches NFT-gated musician accelerator program
Mastercard has been among legacy companies rooted in traditional finance (TradFi) to jump into the Web3 space. The company has been involved with a nu [...]
Mastercard opens network to USDC, OKX departs Canada, Bitcoin climbs
Take, for example, the recent issues that Circle-issued USD Coin (USDC) faced when it depegged from the U.S. dollar following Silicon Valley Bank’s co [...]
Mastercard to settle transactions for stablecoin wallet in APAC
Global payment provider Mastercard is launching a stablecoin digital wallet integration with the Australian stablecoin platform Stables.Mastercard and [...]
Did crypto winter scare off Visa and Mastercard?
Crypto cycles aren’t for the faint-hearted. As the industry continues to evolve from the cypherpunks into the mainstream, we can expect a lot of growi [...]
Latin American Crypto Exchange Bitso and Mastercard Launch Debit Card in Mexico
Mastercard’s portfolio of crypto partnerships in Latin America also includes Binance, Belo and Buenbit.
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Australia’s Central Bank Taps Mastercard and Others to Test CBDC Use Cases
The Reserve Bank of Australia has revealed a set of projects that will develop use cases for a digital dollar, the eAUD, during its testing phase, cur [...]
Visa and Mastercard halt new crypto partnerships — Report
According to a a Reuters report published on Feb. 28, American payment processors Visa and Mastercard has delayed the launch of new partnerships with [...]
Mastercard to allow crypto payments in Web3 via USDC settlements
A partnership between Web3 payment protocol Immersve and payments giant Mastercard will allow users to make crypto payments on digital, physical and t [...]
MasterCard data is another sign that the consumer remains healthy
That's a big credit card or a confusingly-small manMasterCard today reported that US retail sales were up 8.8% y/y excluding autos. January CPI number [...]
Bit2Me and Mastercard launch debit card with crypto cashback
The merger of Web2 and Web3 tools continues as crypto-backed debit cards become more mainstream. In an announcement on Feb. 10, Bit2Me, the largest Sp [...]
Bitcoin NFTs cause spicy fees, Mastercard exec tokenizes resignation letter and more
Bitcoin Ordinals causes fees to spikeThe Bitcoin (BTC)-native Ordinals protocol is taking up record-breaking space on the blockchain and in the proces [...]
Mastercard, Binance to launch their second prepaid crypto card in Latin America
Credit card giant MasterCard has teamed up with the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance to launch another prepaid crypto card in Latin America.On [...]
Binance lanza tarjeta cripto prepaga en Brasil en asociación con Mastercard
La tarjeta permitirá a los usuarios de ese país latinoamericano realizar pagos con 13 criptomonedas, incluyendo bitcoin, ether y Binance USD. La tarje [...]