The new product will be available in pilot mode for several thousand customers from the European Union and the United Kingdom. The full functionality of the card, ConsenSys specifies, will only be available from December. Later, the project may be expanded to other regions.Arta will provide the ability to spend cryptocurrencies directly from a crypto wallet without transactions to exit to fiat assets. Customers will be able to pay for goods and services using USDC, USDT and wETH on the Ethereum blockchain in the Linea second-layer network.
“We saw an opportunity to make shopping easier, more secure and more interoperable for Metamask wallet users,” Mastercard said.
Mastercard cooperates with the payment service Baanx, providing solutions to cryptocurrency platforms, including Tezos and linch NetworkAccording to the commercial director Baanx Simon Jones, anyone with a mobile device should be able to access a basic set of financial services by default.
Earlier, Ripple CTO David Schwartz expressed support for ConsenSys, which was sued by US authorities for operating as an unregistered broker.
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