Mastercard partners NFT marketplaces on card purchases
Mastercard has already joined forces with Coinbase to enable people to buy NFTs on the crypto firm's decentralised marketplace with their debit and credit cards.There are likely to by further forays into the Web3 arena; with the company recently filing 15 NFT and metaverse trademark applications as part of a wide-ranging plan to extend its payment processing system, slogans and branding into the new virtual economy.Mastercard says it is giving people what they want.
It recently published a survey of more than 35,000 people in 40 countries, showing that 45% had purchased an NFT or would consider doing so, and roughly half sought more flexibility — being able to pay with crypto for everyday purchases or using a credit or debit card to buy an NFT.
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