- Mastercard (MA -0.3%) launched new Start Path program, a global startup engagement program to support fast-growing digital assets, blockchain and cryptocurrency companies.
- Seven startups, including GK8, Taurus, U.S.-based Domain Money, and Uphold, Singapore-based STACS, and non-fungible token marketplace Mintable, Switzerland-based SupraOracles, have joined the program.
- The startups and Mastercard aim to accelerate innovation around digital asset technology and make it safer and easier for people to buy, spend and hold cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
- Mastercard said more than 250 startups have participated in the Start Path program since 2014.
- "Part of our role is to forge the future of cryptocurrency, and we’re doing that by bridging mainstream financial principles with digital assets innovations,” said Jess Turner, executive vice president of New Digital Infrastructure and Fintech.
- Source: Press Release