Mastercard & Chainlink Just Changed Crypto Forever – Buy Bitcoin On-Chain with Your Card!

In a game-changing move, Mastercard and Chainlink are enabling all 3.5 billion Mastercard holders to buy crypto directly from DEXs like Uniswap — fully on-chain, without leaving the blockchain.

Rudy Fares

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In one of the most disruptive announcements of 2025, Mastercard and Chainlink have teamed up to bring real-world crypto utility to 3.5 billion cardholders. For the first time ever, users can purchase any crypto — including $BTC and stablecoins — directly on-chain using their traditional Mastercard via Swapper Finance, a new DeFi platform powered by Chainlink.

This bold integration marks the first large-scale direct-to-DEX payment solution backed by a global payment provider — effectively dissolving the barrier between TradFi and DeFi.

Mastercard Crypto News: What’s Happening?

Through a partnership with Swapper Finance, Mastercard users can now:

  • Buy crypto like $BTC, $ETH, $USDC, and more directly from Uniswap
  • Use Mastercard’s global rails for fast, secure fiat-to-crypto conversion
  • Transact on-chain without needing complex wallet setups or centralized exchanges

Swapper Finance runs on XSwap, the top DEX in the Chainlink ecosystem, and integrates advanced tooling from zerohash, Shift4, and Chainlink’s data validation framework — all delivering a secure, compliant, and intuitive way to get crypto directly into your wallet.

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Buying crypto has always been a messy experience for newcomers — clunky onramps, confusing interfaces, and too many steps. With this system:

  • Users can instantly buy tokens from decentralised exchanges (DEXs) with their everyday cards
  • The backend handles KYC, fiat conversion, and smart contract interaction without user friction
  • Transactions remain fully on-chain, meaning total transparency and DeFi-level control

It’s a historic move for crypto adoption. For the first time, traditional finance meets DeFi directly at the DEX level — no CEX middleman, no off-chain limitations.

How to buy Crypto with Mastercard

Here’s how a cardholder can buy crypto on-chain through Swapper:

  1. The user starts the purchase via Swapper Finance or any site with its widget
  2. Shift4 submits the transaction to Mastercard for approval and processes fiat-to-crypto conversion
  3. zerohash delivers the intermediary token (like a stablecoin) to Swapper smart contracts
  4. Chainlink verifies the purchase request and securely triggers a trade on a DEX (e.g. Uniswap)
  5. The user receives the final token directly in their wallet — fast, secure, and on-chain

What’s Next?

Swapper Finance is live now at swapper.finance.
This launch could spark a new wave of global DeFi adoption — where your regular credit card unlocks instant access to the decentralised future.

 

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