MasterCard joins MoonPay in offering a new payment card in StabeCoin

MasterCard persists and signs in the cryptoactive market by associating with MoonPay, the payment company in cryptocurrency, to launch a new payment card in Stablecoins. This initiative is not a major innovation as MasterCard had already made a similar position in the past. But it highlights the strategic consolidation of the American Scheme on the subject.

FACTS

• Mastercard and MoonPay have just joined forces to present a new payment solution on the international market. The latter takes the form of a MasterCard debit card linked to StableCoins accounts.

• The offer is aimed particularly at businesses as well as individuals to allow them to pay for their purchases in StableCoins wherever MasterCard cards are accepted as a means of payment, including 150 million outlets worldwide.

• This partnership will build on Stablecoins' infrastructure led by the Iron API, acquired by MoonPay last March. The StableCoins balance used will be immediately converted into cash during the payment process.

ISSUES

• Consolidate reconciliation : The signing of this new partnership between MasterCard and MoonPay is not a first since the two actors had already chosen to collaborate in the past. In November 2023, MasterCard new a strategic partnership with MoonPay to integrate Web3 into experiential marketing.

• Generalize payments in Stablecoins The announcement of this new partnership signed between Mastercard and MoonPay is of course presented as a means for the two market players to participate in the democratization of payments in Stablecoins.

• Simplifying trade : The two partners also present their initiative as a way for them to transform cryptocurrency portfolios into new digital bank accounts to conduct smooth international transactions.

PERSPECTIVE

• The democratization of cryptoactive payments also requires the support of historical means of payment such as the card. And the players in the sector, MasterCard and Visa, are particularly mobilized on this fundamental trend to avoid disruption in a future market.

• Thus, before his partnership with MoonPay, MasterCard Associated also with the crypto payment infrastructure provider in Europe Mercuryo to launch Spend, a crypto payment solution in the physical world, taking the form of a Mastercard debit card.

• More recently, last April, MasterCard Associated also in Kraken, with the ambition to accelerate the democratisation of cryptos in Europe.

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