Wu said that Chainlink and Mastercard announced a partnership to launch a new program that allows over 3 billion Mastercard cardholders worldwide to purchase crypto assets directly on-chain through the Swapper Finance platform. This program combines Chainlink's interoperability standards with Mastercard's payment network and integrates service providers like zerohash, Shift4 Payments, and XSwap, supporting compliant conversion from fiat to cryptocurrency and on-chain execution.