Stablecoins are moving fast from the crypto-native niche into everyday payments infrastructure. At Money20/20, we discussed with BVNK and Mastercard to understand where that shift is heading and what’s actually driving it.

Mastercard isn’t trying to convert customers to crypto; it’s making the option available, safe, and simple for those who already want it. Since launching its first crypto card in 2019, that approach has scaled to more than 130 programs globally, giving cardholders a way to spend stablecoin and crypto balances anywhere Mastercard is accepted.

Solving cross-border settlement

Cross-border payments have long been bottlenecked by local currency accumulating in a given market and then crawling through slow, outdated…