Mastercard expands interbank settlement capabilities: the company will add support for stablecoins, as well as real-time settlements on weekends and holidays.
The supported assets include USDC (Circle), PYUSD, USDG and USDP (Paxos), RLUSD (Ripple), and SoFiUSD. Settlements will be conducted on the Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, XRPL, and several other networks.
The first participants in the U.S. and Latin America will be ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank, and Nuvei. Full-scale expansion is scheduled for 2026.
The new tools will complement the existing infrastructure rather than replace it—fraud protection and transaction dispute procedures will remain unchanged.
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