Bilt is the platform that is best known for offering rewards for housing payments. Earlier this year we saw major changes to the company’s rewards concept, and Bilt now has three Mastercard credit cards serviced by Cardless, which are potentially worth considering.
One Mile at a Time•Ben Schlappig28 Jun
Mastercard wants payments to move beyond plastic by 2030, replacing traditional card numbers with unique transaction tokens and approving purchases with biometrics such as fingerprints and facial recognition. The company says the shift should speed checkout and reduce fraud, but it also raises worries about reliability in all-digital systems and accessibility for less tech-savvy users. […]
Bitcoin.com News•Guest Author25 Jun
Ripple tokenized treasury test with JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ondo settled on XRPL in seconds. Here is where XRP sits in the flow.
JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo settled a tokenized US Treasury on the XRP Ledger in a legal gray zone. The tech works; CLARITY lets it scale.
Ripple released the XRPL AI Starter Kit on Wednesday, giving developers tools to build AI-agent payment applications on the XRP Ledger using XRP and RLUSD. The launch lands alongside Mastercard naming Ripple as a partner in Agent Pay for Machines, its agentic-commerce network.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 JunMastercard sidelines XRP for its new AI pilot, but RippleX has already launched a workaround to keep the token in the race.
U.Today•Gamza Khanzadaev10 Jun
Mastercard launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) Wednesday, extending its payments network to autonomous AI agents with 30-plus crypto and fintech launch partners including Coinbase, RippleX, Solana Foundation, Polygon, Aave Labs and Stellar.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team10 Jun
Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun