Mastercard, Ripple, and Gemini explore settling card transactions with XRPL stablecoins

According to The Block, Mastercard has partnered with Gemini and Ripple to test the use of the regulated stablecoin RLUSD for settling cryptocurrency card transactions on the XRPL; WebBank participates as the issuer of the Gemini credit card.

This collaboration is said to become an early case of regulated banks in the U.S. settling traditional card transactions on a public chain using regulated stablecoins. Gemini has launched an XRP version of its credit card and introduced a Solana version of the credit card last month (offering up to 4% back in SOL). Mastercard recently collaborated with Chainlink to support on-chain fiat-to-crypto payments and reached an agreement with Humanity Protocol to provide open financial access to credit and financial services.