$BTC Mastercard launched payments in stablecoins. The Mastercard payment system announced a partnership with Circle, Paxos, and Nuvei. Now 150 million merchants in its network will be able to accept stablecoins regardless of the client's payment method. Representatives of the payment giant noted that "stablecoins" help speed up and reduce the cost of payments. According to the press release, Mastercard is already working with Ondo Finance, JPMorgan Chase, and Standard Chartered to develop settlements using tokenized assets.

The stablecoin market continues to grow - its capitalization reached $230 billion (+ 54% per year). USDT and USDC account for 90% of the volume. The number of active wallets has grown by 50% per year, according to Artemis and Dune data.