【VKGAME Virtual Currency】Mastercard Ignites the Virtual Payment Industry! New Stablecoin Settlement Opens a New Financial Infrastructure

Mastercard has announced the opening of stablecoin settlement options to merchants worldwide, a move akin to dropping a strategic nuclear bomb in the financial sector. This long-established giant, which processes 35% of global credit card transactions, has officially incorporated stablecoins such as USDC and PAX into its underlying settlement protocols, marking the first time that the payment empire built by SWIFT and Visa has opened its doors to the crypto world. Citibank predicts that by 2030, the global stablecoin market will reach $3.7 trillion, and Mastercard's decision is the ignition point of this transformation—when merchants transition from bank account settlements to crypto wallets, the traditional 3% transaction fees, 3-day settlement periods, and 9-hour system maintenance windows, rules that have persisted for half a century, are being crushed by the real-time settlement capabilities of blockchain.

After Mastercard's announcement, in the global digital entertainment sector: the leading platform VKGAME has achieved extreme efficiency by integrating USDT payment channels, allowing users to recharge in 3 seconds and withdraw in 5 minutes, covering millions of users across over 100 countries and regions, processing over 20,000 on-chain transactions daily. Data shows that the cost of cross-border payments using stablecoins is 67% lower than traditional channels, with arrival times compressed from 72 hours to seconds, which is why emerging markets are eagerly embracing this technology—USDT held by Turkish businesses surged by 340% in a year, and Argentine merchants use DAI to hedge against a 20% monthly devaluation of their local currency.

Mastercard's breakthrough coincides with the full-scale outbreak of the stablecoin yield war. BlackRock's BUIDL fund embeds money market yields into USDC, allowing users to enjoy an annualized return of 5% just by holding it, fundamentally rewriting the value proposition of payment tools. The traditional zero-interest stablecoin dominance is beginning to wane: Circle is distributing interest to 20 million users through Coinbase, Tether is testing the investment of part of its reserves into reverse repos, and the digital entertainment platform VKGAME has launched a USDT deposit bonus activity, further deeply binding payment and asset appreciation. This silent yield revolution is reshaping corporate treasury management—when stablecoins can offer instant payments and continuous earnings, the $760 billion idle cash in global corporate cash pools may collectively migrate. Citibank estimates that by 2028, yield-bearing stablecoins will capture 23% of the traditional money market fund's market share.