Mastercard grows crypto partners
Mastercard added DFNS and Fuse to its Crypto Partner Program, expanding the company’s payments integrations for blockchain‑native services reported. That signals continued mainstream payments firms building formal bridges to crypto custody and settlement tools.
[Mastercard announced]mastercard.com the Crypto Partner Program on March 11, 2026, assembling a coalition of more than 85 firms to coordinate on programmable on‑chain payments and settlement. [DFNS launched]morningstar.com a "Payouts" API on March 6, 2026 that converts stablecoins to fiat and routes payouts across multiple bank accounts while preserving wallet‑level governance, and the company [previously raised]businesswire.com $16M in Series A funding to scale institutional wallet infrastructure. Fuze positions itself as a full‑stack digital‑asset infrastructure provider [on its site]fuze.finance [and says]fuze.finance it can execute payouts to cards, wallets and bank accounts in 80+ countries, a capability that complements Mastercard’s merchant network of over 100 million acceptance [points noted]stablecoininsider.org. Mastercard’s underlying rails include the Multi‑Token Network (MTN), which the [company connected]mastercard.com to J.P. Morgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments in November 2024 to enable tokenized settlement for B2B flows. The program groups custody, wallet infrastructure, and on/off‑ramp specialists together — Modern [Treasury announced]moderntreasury.com it joined as an on/off‑ramp provider, while DFNS and Fuze bring wallet governance and payouts primitives to those settlement [rails documented]morningstar.com. [Mastercard outlined]insightswire.com concrete pilots in the program, including a MetaMask‑linked card concept that would pay rewards in an mUSD stablecoin, signaling how partner integrations may surface as customer‑facing products.
