Cheer for Mastercard cardholders! Now buy NFTs on several platforms
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The financial services company’s announcement holds even more relevance as users are currently required to buy cryptocurrencies to bid on and purchase NFTs.
Mastercard is expanding its partnership with NFT marketplaces and #web3 providers to simplify the process of buying… t.co/l4dItSG3zi
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He added that this could influence the NFT ecosystem significantly with 2.9 billion Mastercard cards in circulation all around the globe.
What inspired the company’s decision to further expand their payment network to the NFT ecosystem was the result of a survey poll. It showed that out of 35,000 respondents from 40 countries polled, 45 per cent of consumers have purchased or are considering purchasing an NFT. 50 per cent said they’d like more purchasing options.
Customers can expect world-class security from the company’s latest payment option, similar to the protection people “enjoy when making transactions in a store or online with a Mastercard card”. Dhamodharan underscored that they were leveraging its cybersecurity capabilities to improve security and secure user data for purchases made with a Mastercard card.
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The NFT marketplaces teaming up with Mastercard include Immutable X, Candy Digital, The Sandbox, Mintable, Spring and Nifty Gateway, as well as Web3 infrastructure provider MoonPay.