XSwap Powers the Onboarding of Billions: Chainlink, Mastercard, Swapper, and the Future of Onchain Access

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XSwap Powers the Onboarding of Billions: Chainlink, Mastercard, Swapper, and the Future of Onchain Access

The next chapter for crypto adoption isn’t coming. It’s here, and XSwap is at the heart of it.

XSwap is now at the heart of one of the most significant leaps in crypto adoption to date, enabling over 3 billion card holders to go onchain in a single tap. Together with Chainlink, Mastercard, Swapper Finance, ZeroHash, and Shift4, we’ve delivered the bridge between the world’s financial mainstream and the decentralized future.

For years, onboarding mainstream users into DeFi meant friction: complicated wallets, endless CEX hurdles, unclear on-ramps, and more. Billions wanted access, few could get it. That changes today.

By uniting the global reach of Mastercard, security of Chainlink, and the onchain execution of XSwap, the floodgates have opened. Now, anyone with a payment card can purchase crypto directly onchain. No more roundtrips. No more workarounds. Just one tap, onchain.

“This is the type of traditional finance and decentralized finance convergence that Chainlink was built to make possible. I'm excited about Chainlink's ability to enable this critical connection between the traditional payments world and the over three billion cardholders in the Mastercard user base, directly into the next generation trading environments of onchain decentralized exchanges,” said Sergey Nazarov, Co-Founder of Chainlink. “It has been great collaborating closely with the Mastercard team on this innovative implementation, as well as the teams at Swapper Finance, XSwap, Shift4, and zerohash, this was a complex and multilayered collaboration, which I was thrilled to see the Chainlink community help make possible.”

How It Works: Simplicity at Scale

The new integration brings together industry leaders to remove every barrier between fiat and DeFi:

  • Fiat to Crypto, Onchain: A user hits ‘Buy Crypto’ on Swapper Finance. Card details submitted.
  • Shift4 Payments processes card transactions in real-time.
  • zerohash provides the regulated fiat-to-crypto infrastructure, handling compliance, custody, and seamless conversion.
  • Chainlink validates the purchase metadata against the user’s original request, then transmits DEX order instructions to Swapper’s smart contracts in a decentralized manner.
  • XSwap does what it does best - sources the best price, pulls from the deepest DEX liquidity, and routes the swap, seamlessly and securely.

The result? A compliant, intuitive experience that puts DeFi access in the hands of billions. No technical learning curve required.

“Swapper Finance leverages XSwap, the leading DEX built out of the Chainlink ecosystem that uses the Chainlink standard for data and interoperability, via an integration between zerohash and Shift4 Payments. zerohash provides the core compliance, custody, and transaction infrastructure, making it possible to convert fiat into crypto for smart contract consumption in a regulated manner. Shift4 enables seamless card processing, while XSwap sources liquidity from decentralized exchanges like the Uniswap protocol, enabling the final execution of swaps onchain. Together, these technologies create a unified, compliant, and intuitive user experience that brings crypto access directly to mainstream payment cardholders.”

Why XSwap?

XSwap was engineered from day one as Chainlink’s flagship DEX layer. From the start, we set out to prove what’s possible when you build DeFi with the world’s most trusted infrastructure at your core. Every upgrade, every new feature - swaps, bridges, direct staking, AI insights has been shaped in close collaboration with the Chainlink team.

We’re the platform that proved what’s possible with CCIP. Over 60% of all Chainlink cross-chain volume flows through XSwap. 

Chainlink sets the standard. XSwap brings it to life. In just under two years, this partnership is already onboarding billions and we’re just getting started.

Infrastructure for the Onchain Mainstream

As the core liquidity and swap engine behind Swapper Finance, XSwap leverages Chainlink’s interoperability and data standards to deliver instant swaps for the Mastercard user base. This partnership is more than just a headline; it’s a signal that the future of finance is being built now, and it’s running through XSwap.

  • Deepest Liquidity: XSwap aggregates liquidity across 27+ chains and major protocols offering the best prices and tightest execution, even at global scale.
  • Security at Core: Powered by Chainlink CCIP, every swap is protected by industry-leading security infrastructure.

The New Standard: Frictionless, Global, Onchain

This is more than a tech milestone. It’s proof that TradFi and DeFi can finally connect at scale. Together with Chainlink, Mastercard, and Swapper Finance, XSwap is bringing secure, direct crypto access to billions, not just to early adopters but to everyone holding a payment card worldwide.

XSwap’s role is clear: we’re the layer that makes Chainlink’s vision tangible for users and builders. Every partnership, every integration, every upgrade, designed to move this industry forward.

For the first time, DeFi isn’t just for the few. It’s for the billions.

Ready to swap the future? Explore the new era at xswap.link and swapper.finance.

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