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11 March 2026

    

Mastercard launches new Crypto Partner Programme

Global initiative brings together more than 100 industry leaders, ensuring that what’s next works with what already does.

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Raj Dhamodharan

Executive Vice President, Digital Asset Blockchain Products & Partnerships, Mastercard

    

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Sherri Haymond

Global Head, Digital Commercialization, Mastercard

Digital assets are entering a new phase.

What once ran in parallel to existing financial systems is increasingly being applied to solve practical, real-world needs — often behind the scenes - from cross-border remittances to B2B money transfers. Enterprise and institutional use cases such as payouts, settlement and cross‑border money movement are beginning to take hold, creating new opportunities to add value to how money moves globally.

That’s why we’re introducing the Mastercard Crypto Partner Programme, a new global initiative that brings together more than 100 crypto‑native companies, payments providers and financial institutions to create a forum for meaningful dialogue and collaboration as this space continues to mature.

Recognising how much there is to learn from the innovators building on chain every day, the programme will allow expertise and insights to flow both ways as we shape the future together.

 

Built for innovators, designed for deployment

The Mastercard Crypto Partner Programme reflects a core belief that the next phase of on-chain payments will be built through collaboration.

Through the programme, participants will engage with Mastercard teams on the design and direction of future products and services, including solutions that aim to bring the speed and programmability that digital assets offer together with established card rails and global commerce flows.

By creating a shared framework for collaboration, the programme helps align innovation across the ecosystem while supporting consistent standards and responsible growth.

The focus is practical execution: translating technical innovation into scalable, compliant use cases that can operate across markets and integrate seamlessly into everyday commerce.

 

Building together

The programme builds on Mastercard’s longstanding partnership approach to digital assets. For years, Mastercard has brought the ecosystem together through initiatives like its Start Path track focused on blockchain and digital assets, as well as its Engage platform, which includes a dedicated Crypto Card programme, creating opportunities for collaboration, innovation and growth.

As digital asset technologies mature, Mastercard will continue focusing on what we do best: enabling trust, setting standards and connecting systems at scale. By bridging on-chain innovation with the framework that powers everyday payments, we’re helping ensure that what’s next works with what already does.

Who’s joining the Crypto Partner Programme

   

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Partners include: 1Money, Anchorage Digital, Aptos, Arbitrum, Arc, Arculus, Ava Labs, Axelar, Baanx, Binance, Bitget Wallet, BitGo, Blockaid, Bolt, Borderless.xyz, Bybit, Canton, CBW Bank, Chainalysis, Circle, Cosmos Labs, Cross River, Crossmint, Crypto.com, Cyclops, DCS, DFNS, dtcpay, Elliptic, Episode Six, Fireblocks, Fuze, Galileo, Gemini, Hacken, Halliday, Highnote, Hypernative, i2c, Immersve, Infinia, Keyrails, Kraken, Koywe, Kulipa, LayerZero, Lead Bank, LI.FI, Lirium, Lithic, Marqeta, Mercuryo, Merkle Science, MetaMask, Monad, Modern Treasury, Monad, Monavate, MoonPay, Moorwand, Nethermind, Nexo, Nominis, Notabene, OKX, Optimism, Parfin, Paxos, PayCaddy, Paymentology, PayPal, Peoples Group, Plume, Polygon, Pomelo, Portal Labs, Privy, Rain, Rayls, Reown, Ripple, Sardine, Shift4, SoFi, Solana, Stablecore, Stellar, StraitsX, Supra, SwissBorg, Taurus, Tempo, Thought Machine, Thredd, Transak, TRM Labs, Tron, Turnkey, Unlimit, Utila, Venly, WebBank, Worldpay, Yellow Card and Zellic.

To learn more or apply to join, click here. 

    

This article was updated on 27 March to reflect additional partners joining the Mastercard Crypto Partner Programme. 

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