Ladies and gentlemen, grab your popcorn—Mastercard has entered the crypto ring with MoonPay in its corner, launching a global stablecoin card that lets users spend USDC at over 150 million merchants. That’s right: you can now buy tacos, trainers, or toothpaste using crypto like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
And where’s Visa, you ask? Oh, it’s been flirting with USDC on Solana, settling payments behind the curtain like a shy wizard. But Mastercard? It’s out here strutting down Main Street yelling, “I TAKE STABLECOINS, BABY!”
This is no longer a quiet experiment—it’s a payments war. One side wants to quietly optimise the rails, the other’s slapping a crypto sticker on your wallet. The future of money is being shaped not by banks, but by the plastic gods of finance. And right now, Mastercard is making all the noise.
Visa, your move.
