Mastercard has rolled out a new Crypto Partner Program that brings together more than 85 firms across digital assets, payments and financial services.

The new global initiative is intended to create a forum for collaboration as digital asset use cases become more closely tied to mainstream financial systems.

Among the companies joining the program are Anchorage Digital, Binance, Bybit, Circle, Crypto.com, DCS Card, dtcpay, Episode Six, Fireblocks, Gemini, Paxos, Paymentology, PayPal, Ripple, StraitsX, Thought Machine, Thredd, TRM Labs and Worldpay.

Mastercard said digital assets are increasingly being used in areas such as cross-border remittances, B2B money…