{"id":17119,"date":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=927ad5305ef879fd6b6f38823c889b18"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","slug":"mastercard-buys-stablecoin-firm-bvnk-for-up-to-1-8bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17119","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/03\/Mastercard-buys-stablecoin-firm-BVNK-for-up-to-1.8bn.png\" width=\"1302\" height=\"732\"><\/p>\n<p>For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard\u2019s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slower track. The system is extraordinarily reliable and extraordinarily profitable. It is also, increasingly, a system designed for a world that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/mastercard-bvnk-18bn-stablecoin-acquisition?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/mastercard-bvnk-18bn-stablecoin-acquisition\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard\u2019s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}