Mastercard partnered with blockchain network providers Aptos Labs, Ava Labs, Polygon Labs and the Solana Foundation, and technology providers including Lirium, Bit2Me, Mercado Bitcoin and Uphold to promote a crypto security standard. The aim is to improve verification for purchases and payments on public blockchain networks. Temenos, a banking software provider, partnered with R3, operator of Corda, a DLT platform and Hyperledger Besu, an open source Ethereum client, to build CBDC capabilities. Those include central bank token issuance to commercial bank wallets, customer non-custodial wallet...