Mastercard News

Stellar Lumens token drifted upwards, reaching its highest level since Oct. 1, as the Meridian Conference continued. Stellar (XLM), one of the biggest cryptocurrencies, rose to $0.096, pushing its market capitalization to over $2.8 billion. The main catalyst for the token’s…

Mastercard has expanded its footprint in the crypto payments space with a new crypto debit card that allows users to make direct purchases using non-custodial wallets. According to an announcement on Sept. 5, European crypto holders can now spend Bitcoin…

MetaMask is piloting a new payment debit card that allows users to spend crypto directly from their MetaMask wallets.  The card, currently in a limited pilot phase in the EU and UK, is available to a select group of users.…

Australian stablecoin startup Stables is launching its services in Europe as part of its new partnership with Mastercard.

International payments giant Mastercard has teamed up with blockchain provider Alchemy Pay to combat identity fraud and mitigate malicious activities. Alchemy Pay, a fiat-to-crypto payment gateway has partnered with Mastercard in an effort to enhance user verification and fraud prevention…

peaq, a layer-1 blockchain, has become a participant in the Mastercard Start Path program.

Mastercard is joining U.S. banking giants to develop distributed ledger technology for banking payments using tokenization.

1inch Network, in collaboration with crypto card developer Baanx and payment giant Mastercard, announced the launch of the 1inch Card.

Mastercard’s blockchain forensic firm CipherTrace has reportedly halted some of its key services amid concerns over data reliability. CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics firm acquired by Mastercard in 2021, appears to be discontinuing some of its key services, Fortune has learned,…

Fintech companies across Latin America are embracing digital finance solutions, driven by the increasing adoption of crypto and blockchain, Circle says. According to Circle‘s latest report titled “Latin America Embraces Digital Finance and the Next Internet Era,” fintech companies in…

Mastercard has teamed up with Feedzai to alert about suspicious crypto transactions in real time. Payments giant Mastercard has entered into a partnership with Feedzai, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered risk management system, in a bid to increase crypto fraud…

Payments giant Mastercard says adoption is the most challenging part for state-issued digital currencies. The second-largest payment-processing provider, Mastercard, sees no prospects for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) shortly, as consumers nowadays are “comfortable using today’s type of money.” In…

European residents can now opt for a Bybit Card for their crypto-to-fiat conversion following the launch of a new incentive scheme

Mastercard has joined forces with cryptocurrency and NFTs payment application MoonPay, aiming to explore potential integrations and consumer loyalty opportunities within the emerging Web3 ecosystem.

At the Blockchain Life conference in Dubai, leaders from Ripple, Mastercard, and Telegram delved into their crypto journeys, discussing challenges, user adoption, and the future of digital assets. The “Digital Assets: Financial Sector Issues and the Next Wave of Adoption…

Mastercard has announced that it has demonstrated a new solution that enables central bank CBDC to be interoperable with different blockchains.