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Area of Interest: Digital Currency

Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machine-to-Machine Payments

Last month, the company launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), an end-to-end orchestration service that supports use cases such as when AI agents build websites and design marketing campaigns and require the ability to accept micropayments.

Rain Rewards Program for Stablecoin Card Issuers

Blockchains are built to easily facilitate interoperable transaction flows, which makes them ideal for when multiple parties participate in the same transaction. No complicated integrations are required as is the case with co-branded airline cards that provide extra loyalty points to cardholders based on purchases made at select restaurant, rideshare company and other merchants that partner with the issuer.

Visa and Brale’s Stablecoin Proof of Concept on the Canton Network

The Canton Network provides transactionlevel privacy not found on other public blockchains, such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano and Polygon, which are decentralized and open source. On the Canton Network, only parties that are part of the transaction can see its details. Multiple parties can transact using different private ledgers.

Mastercard Approved for BitLicense in New York

With a BitLicense, Mastercard can operate a cryptocurrency business that serves consumers and businesses in the state of New York. It can transmit crypto, store and maintain it on behalf of customers and buy and sell.

Blockchain Wallet as a Service from Fireblocks

Stablecoin transfer volumes are projected to reach $46 trillion in 2025. However, the actual payment activity, most of which is cross-border business-to-business transactions, will be between $4 trillion and $5 trillion. By comparison, payments for goods and services tied to all general purpose and private label credit, debit and prepaid cards worldwide will be in […]