This acquisition is Mastercard\u2019s most recent push into tokenized bank deposits and stablecoins. In an April 2025 press release<\/a> on its stablecoin strategy, Mastercard said it is \u201cadvancing the future of payments, finance and technology with new, global end\u2011to\u2011end stablecoin acceptance and payments capabilities,\u201d positioning stablecoins as part of its core network rather than a side experiment.<\/p>\n On March 11<\/a>, Mastercard launched a global initiative that brought together \u201cmore than 85 industry leaders\u201d in digital assets and payments, such as Binance, Crypto.com, Kraken, Paypal and Solana, to connect on\u2011chain innovation with existing payment rails.<\/p>\n The Reign Of Stablecoins<\/p>\n Stablecoins have become the dominant crypto use case for value transfer, with growing share of on\u2011chain volume versus speculative trading. A report from Plasma<\/a> states that stablecoin transaction volume exceeded $33 trillion by late 2025, describing a shift from speculative trading towards utility and payment use cases, calling stablecoins \u201ccore financial infrastructure of DeFi\u201d.<\/p>\n That explains why big payment networks and banks are racing to lock in stablecoin settlement rails to defend fees and relevance in cross\u2011border and B2B payments. As Bloomberg puts it, not only Mastercard but also Visa Inc. are \u201cpositioning themselves to remain the payment players of choice as emerging technologies become more prominent\u201d. On a press release issued this past January 12<\/a>, BNVK announced its partnership with Visa to bring stablecoin payments to the Visa Direct platform, as covered by our sister website Bitcoinist<\/a>.<\/p>\n Traders do well to remember that stablecoin\u2011centric tokens and payment\/infrastructure names can gain narrative momentum as \u201ccrypto payments\u201d flips from story to execution. The risk, however, is that since the integration, regulation, and execution timelines are slow, the trade in the near term is narrative\u2011driven rather than fundamentals\u2011driven.<\/p>\n Cover image from Perplexity, BTCUSDT chart from Tradingview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mastercard is set to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK in a deal worth up to around $1.8 billion, pushing deeper into crypto rails and 24\/7 payments. A Multi-Billion Crypto Purchase TradFi continues to demonstrate that they don\u2019t want out of the crypto rails, and stablecoins appear to be the safest pathway they have found to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,55,3808,421],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-mastercard","tag-stablecoins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bitcoin,](\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BTCUSDT_2026-03-17_13-59-44.png?w=860&resize=860%2C664\")
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