The partnership is part of Mastercard's expanding efforts in the cryptocurrency space and integrates multiple players, including Shift4, zerohash, XSwap, and Uniswap, with Chainlink's interoperability protocol facilitating transaction data exchange between the card network and multiple blockchains.
The deal helps enable a “critical connection between the traditional payments world and the over three billion cardholders in the Mastercard user base,” according to Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov.