Mastercard has filed 15 NFT and metaverse trademark applications as part of a wide-ranging plan to extend its payment processing system, slogans and branding into the new virtual economy, Finextra reports
According to the filings Mastercard sees five key applications for its services in the metaverse:
. “Downloadable music files authenticated by non-fungible tokens (NFTs);
. “Marketplaces for digital goods and NFT backed media”
. “Processing of virtual credit card, virtual debit card, virtual prepaid card, and virtual payment card transactions in the metaverse
. “Events and performances in the metaverse in the fields of finance, cryptocurrency, and NFTs”
. “Online communities for digital assets, NFTs, metaverse and virtual worlds”