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Chainlink springs on partnership with Mastercard

On Tuesday, Chainlink announced a partnership to allow Mastercard’s roughly 3 billion global cardholders to “purchase crypto assets directly on-chain through a secure fiat-to-crypto conversion.” 

Chainlink is a piece of crypto infrastructure that aims to provide real-world information to blockchain networks. Its native cryptocurrency has increased 11.7% in the last 24 hours, making it one of the top performers among cryptocurrencies. 

“People want to be able to easily connect to the digital assets ecosystem, and vice versa,” Raj Dhamodharan, executive vice president of blockchain and digital assets at Mastercard, said in the release. “In coming together with Chainlink, we’re unlocking a secure and innovative way to revolutionize on-chain commerce and drive the broader adoption of crypto assets.” 

The announcement comes as Mastercard is increasingly expanding into the crypto world. Mastercard also revealed today its integration with fintech firm Fiserv’s newly launched stablecoin. Last month, the payments giant teamed up with crypto service provider MoonPay to allow cardholders to spend their stablecoins in Mastercard’s over 150 million locations, and in April, Mastercard linked arms with Kraken to launch physical and digital debit cards for the crypto exchange.

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Ripple launches treasury platform to manage cash and cryptocurrencies

Ripple, the firm closely tied to the fifth-largest cryptocurrency, XRP, introduced a new treasury platform for digital asset and traditional cash management for users like financial officers, treasurers, and accountants. 

Ripple’s move comes more than three months after it acquired treasury software provider GTreasury for $1 billion, one of several steps to grow the firm’s position in corporate finance.

Combining Ripple’s blockchain rails and GTreasury’s software, the new platform’s goal is to simplify treasury operations. It eliminates settlement delays with payment times of three to five seconds and optimizes yield from working capital 24/7 through tokenized money market funds such as BlackRock’s BUIDL and overnight secure repo markets with RLUSD, according to a Tuesday blog post. 

Ripple Treasury also aims to provide “real-time cash positions, automated forecasting, and seamless reporting across traditional cash, digital assets, RLUSD, and XRP holdings,” the blog post stated.

Last year, Ripple filed its national banking license application with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, while the firm’s subsidiary Standard Custody & Trust Company applied for a Federal Reserve master account, which would allow Ripple to hold RLUSD reserves directly with the Fed.

XRP has seen $2.4 billion in trading volume in the last 24 hours, increasing 1.8% in the period. The token’s all-time high was set in July 2025 at $3.65. Meanwhile, spot XRP ETFs had nearly $9.2 million worth of inflows on Tuesday, bringing cumulative inflows to $1.4 billion.

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