By Isaac • June 3, 2026 2:46 pm •
Mastercard announced June 3 that it plans to expand card settlement with intraday, weekend and holiday options, and to support on-chain settlement using regulated stablecoins.
That means issuers and acquirers can settle in fiat or in tokenized dollars across major blockchains, with more control over when money actually moves.
The named stablecoins are Circle’s USDC, Paxos-issued PYUSD, USDG and USDP, Ripple’s RLUSD, and SoFi’s SoFiUSD.
The supported networks are Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL.
Today, Mastercard is announcing plans to expand settlement capabilities to include stablecoin, intraday, holiday, and weekend options, giving partners more choice in how and when transactions are settled. That means we’re:
✅ Enabling greater choice to settle
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