Mastercard Unveils its Own Set of Blockchain APIs
Mastercard, the second-biggest payments multinational in the world after Visa, has revealed a set of three blockchain APIs in its developer site. The offering of its own blockchain solution can be seen as Mastercard’s attempt to get ahead of the burgeoning pack of blockchain developers across the financial landscape. The credit card giant showcases three API offerings. Its ‘Blockchain Core API’ provides a toolkit for adopters and users to run their own nodes while administrating participants in a blockchain network. The Smart Contracts API allows developers to write custom scripts using....
Related News
Visa isn't the only credit card issuer moving fast on blockchain. But while Visa is going it alone in releasing a B2B blockchain, MasterCard it seems is quietly developing a set of new blockchain APIs with more collaborative goals. The credit card giant’s development site now features three APIs connected to its internal blockchain work, including offerings focused on smart contracts and payment settlement. The APIs were released by MasterCard Labs, its innovation outfit. MasterCard blockchain lead Justin Pinkham said the company released its API platform last month in a bid to stoke....
Recently Bitcoin.com reported on the multinational financial services firm Mastercard releasing blockchain APIs. Now the payment processing company is filing for four blockchain patents. Mastercard Files Patents for Blockchain-Based Settlement. Mastercard is taking the blockchain phenomenon very seriously. Just a few weeks after revealing its....
Multinational financial services corporation Mastercard recently released three blockchain application programming interfaces (API). The company’s Mastercard Labs unveiled the development, which focuses on a blockchain core API, a fast pay network interface, and a smart contracts API. Mastercard Joins Distributed Ledger Race. Mastercard is a giant....
Australian crypto exchange CoinJar has released the first crypto MasterCard in the country. A post on CoinJar’s website confirmed that this card can be used just like a fiat MasterCard. Users get to spend their crypto with a fully-featured card both online and in-stores. CoinJar users can use their cards in stores and places where […]
Amid the growing frauds in the crypto sector, the multinational financial service organization, Mastercard, has unveiled a new feature to prevent and detect crypto-related fraud operations within its network. Cryptocurrency’s broad adoption by the mainstream has pushed global business platforms to include it. But unfortunately, it also opened a way for fraudsters and cybercriminals to […]