Mastercard to allow 2.9B cardholders to make direct NFT purchases

Mastercard to allow 2.9B cardholders to make direct NFT purchases

Card payments for NFTs were first announced in association with Coinbase’s latest NFT marketplace in January. International payment processing giant Mastercard is expanding its payment network for nonfungible token (NFT) markets and Web3.The financial service provider announced that it has been working on expanding their payment networks to NFTs over the past year. The firm has partnered with a number of leading NFT marketplaces to allow 2.9 billion cardholders to directly make NFT purchases without buying crypto first.Currently, users need to buy crypto to bid on and buy NFTs. However,....


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