Scaling and Securing Crypto Payments
Mastercard is transforming the financial services landscape by making digital assets accessible and secure for billions of consumers, businesses, and governments worldwide. With its vast global presence and scale, Mastercard seamlessly integrates digital assets and blockchain technology into the global economy.
Global Reach and Trusted Innovation
Mastercard’s extensive network includes over 3 billion cards circulating worldwide, more than 150 million acceptance locations, and over $8 trillion in purchase volume worldwide. This scale enables Mastercard to deliver trusted digital asset innovation, leveraging blockchain technology to enhance trust, compliance, and consumer protections in financial services.
Key Solutions for Digital Asset Transactions
- Mastercard Multi-Token Network™: Brings the speed of blockchain technology to banking with secure payment services.
- Mastercard Crypto Credential™: Empowers crypto exchanges and consumers to send and receive crypto payments simply and securely.
- Mastercard Crypto Card Program: Enables consumers to use their crypto for everyday purchases, driving wallet use and loyalty.
- Central Bank Digital Currencies: Helps central banks explore, test, deploy, and secure digital currencies for various use cases.
- Start Path Crypto Program: Supports startups in scaling with technology, partnerships, and networking opportunities.
Securing Trust in the Crypto Ecosystem
Mastercard helps ensure the crypto economy operates at high levels of security and trust. Key solutions include:
- Smarter Identity Insights: Powers business growth and fraud prevention without adding customer friction.
- Risk-Based Authentication: Validates good users without disruption and stops bad actors before they can cause damage.
- Cybersecurity Ratings and Insights: Helps achieve better outcomes by understanding and acting on risks from third-party and supply chain risks.
Staying Informed
Mastercard provides actionable insights to support business and economic growth. Recent perspectives include redefining financial freedom by enabling people to easily spend their crypto, and the importance of tokenizing real-world assets and currencies for the financial industry’s future.
Sources: [1] Mastercard Supplemental Operational Performance, 2024. [2] Mastercard Quarterly Member Reporting data as reported by Acquirers Q3 2024.
