Chainlink, a provider of decentralized oracle networks, has announced a partnership with payments giant Mastercard to allow more than 3 billion Mastercard users worldwide to purchase cryptocurrencies directly on-chain. This collaboration is expected to accelerate the adoption of digital assets, especially among those with little to no Web3 experience.

The integration is made possible through a series of collaborations with Web3 companies, including Shift4 Payments, Swapper Finance, XSwap, and ZeroHash—a crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider that will handle fiat-to-crypto conversions and provide the necessary on-chain liquidity.

A Chainlink Labs spokesperson told: “The