Mastercard Settles Cards on Solana, 24/7
Mastercard is taking card settlement on-chain in stablecoins around the clock, with Solana as lead rail. What it means for payment developers.
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8 articles tagged with Payment Infrastructure.
Mastercard is taking card settlement on-chain in stablecoins around the clock, with Solana as lead rail. What it means for payment developers.
Trump's 19 May executive order tells the Fed to review opening master accounts to non-bank fintechs. Why payment developers should pay attention.
Rust developer salaries, fintech hiring demand and fill times in 2026 — why payment firms are rewriting settlement engines in Rust.
FCA's CASS 15 went live 7 May, forcing UK payment firms into daily reconciliation, D+1 checks and annual audits. What this asks of engineering.
Google's Agent Payments Protocol joins ACP and x402 to form a three-layer agentic commerce stack for fintech and AI agent developers.
Visa's Intelligent Commerce SDK and VDCAP go live in April 2026, giving fintech developers tools to build secure agentic payment flows.
Stripe's Tempo blockchain and Machine Payments Protocol launch, racing Circle to build stablecoin settlement for AI agent commerce.
Rust is taking over fintech infrastructure. Why UK payment and crypto firms are aggressively hiring Rust developers across 2026, and what to learn.