JUST IN: Mastercard partners with Chainlink to "enable billions of cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain."

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.Mastercard’s EVP Raj Dhamodharan: "I found Chainlink to be an incredibly quick partner on this in terms of coming up with solutions ... The velocity and number of apps that can get on the platform will exponentially increase.”

🏗️ New Build member: Swapper Finance Swapper Finance’s participation in the Build program led to its inclusion in Chainlink's groundbreaking partnership with Mastercard, which enables 3B+ cardholders to purchase crypto directly onchain. blog.swapper.finance/swapper-financ… Swapper Finance

Mastercard SVP Izzy Iliev-Wolitzer on combining Mastercard’s network with Chainlink’s infrastructure: "When you combine these two things together, you get a very, very powerful system, where everybody feels safe.” Watch today’s talk with Sergey Nazarov at Permissionless ↓

Mastercard, live for real value. Access tokens for your on-chain wallet, directly with a mastercard purchase. Liquidity to buy a tokenized asset from a stablecoin or liquidity to buy a tokenized asset from an existing payments system, is still just liquidity/purchasing power

Build to Scale Q2 2025 saw Chainlink Build & ecosystem members continue to grow via innovation & scaling. • Build: Season Genesis launch with Space and Time • Blockchains: 29 integrations including optimism.eth, Solana, & TRON DAO Ecosystem teams—Drop your updates below ↓

Chainlink & Mastercard are connecting over 3 billion cardholders to crypto. This new post explores how Mastercard and Chainlink are enabling secure, compliant, and reliable crypto access: blog.chain.link/mastercard-and…

Recently, Sergey Nazarov joined the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology podcast to discuss: • The impact of the GENIUS Act on stablecoins • The next phase of institutional Web3 adoption • How Chainlink functions similarly to the TCP/IP standard for the Internet And much more—full episode ↓

💡 CRYPTO'S MOST IMPORTANT PROJECT? You've probably heard of Chainlink $LINK... But do you understand the role it plays? Learn now 👇 bsc.news/post/what-is-c…

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We're excited to have major institutions and DeFi teams as sponsors of this year's SmartCon. Here’s a look at early sponsors:

“The partnership marks the first time any asset on the chain — from bitcoin to stablecoins — can be purchased on-chain with traditional cards.” Mastercard explores how its work with Chainlink is a major catalyst for the global adoption of crypto: mastercard.com/us/en/news-and…

🚨Chainlink is featured on Forbes🚨 Mastercard And Shopify Drive Crypto Payments Mainstream “Mastercard's 3.5 billion cardholders gained access to direct cryptocurrency purchases on DEXs through a platform called Swapper Finance, powered by Chainlink.” forbes.com/sites/digital-…

"This is what crypto looks like when it’s ready for the real world." Forbes on the recent Mastercard and Chainlink partnership ↓ forbes.com/sites/digital-…

Global blockchain platform WEMIX is leveraging Chainlink CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain solution. WEMIX has now expanded its use of CCIP to enable seamless, secure transfers of Ethereum-native USDC into the WEMIX3.0 ecosystem.

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Following the success of phases 1 and 2, the Aave DAO has officially voted with unanimous approval to enter phase 3 of its activation of Chainlink SVR. Phase 3 expands Chainlink SVR's coverage to ~75% of Aave's total Ethereum TVS, which  represents ~95% of Aave’s OEV-relevant

SynFutures (SynFutures)—a leading decentralized perpetual exchange with $67B+ in quarterly trading volume—has adopted the Chainlink data standard on Base. Chainlink supports Synfuture's newly listed XAU market with highly secure, tamper-proof market data.

Connecting billions.