Hinkal joins the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program

Hinkal has joined the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program, a network of crypto and blockchain teams working with Mastercard on how digital assets fit into everyday commerce.

We're bringing privacy that already runs inside other teams' products. Wallets, payment platforms and chains plug Hinkal in when stablecoin activity needs to stay confidential.

What the program is about

The Crypto Partner Program connects crypto-native companies with Mastercard's teams, its global payments network, and each other. Members span stablecoin issuers and infrastructure providers, on and off ramps, crypto card enablers, blockchains, and blockchain service providers.

Mastercard describes it as a way to turn technical capabilities into compliant use cases that work in global commerce, and to move past pilots through partner discovery and go-to-market collaboration. Select members also get access to financial institutions across Mastercard's issuing and acquiring network, plus regulatory and compliance support aligned with global standards.

What it brings to stablecoins

Stablecoins already move value fast and around the clock. What they've lacked is an easy way into the systems businesses and consumers use every day.

The program is built directly for that. Among the use cases Mastercard lists are cross-border payments and remittances, B2B transactions, treasury and settlement flows, stablecoin-based payments, and card programs that let people spend digital assets at regular merchants. Stablecoin builders get a shared framework with one of the largest payment networks in the world, and a room full of teams working on the same problem each in their own way.

When stablecoins start carrying payroll, supplier payments and treasury moves, privacy stops being a niche request. Businesses don't publish their payments on a bank statement for anyone to read, and they'll expect the same when they settle onchain.

Hinkal's role

Beyond the Hinkal applications, we run inside wallets and platforms that build us into their own products.

We let stablecoins settle in private balances and move with zero-knowledge proofs, so the chain verifies each transfer without revealing the amount, the sender or the recipient. We're live on Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, TRON, and other major EVM chains, and teams plug us in through our SDKs and API.

That model is already live across the ecosystem such as:

• Polygon Wallet that offers Private Send powered by Hinkal.
• Tether's Wallet Development Kit which includes Hinkal private send for wallet builders.
• Turnkey wallets that can add privacy through the Hinkal SDK.
• Avvio that runs Hinkal's private payments inside its own interface.

Each of those teams owns its product and its users while Hinkal adds confidentiality, so privacy becomes a feature they can ship instead of a system they have to build.

Privacy that fits the framework

Mastercard's program puts compliance at the center, and so do we. Funds are screened before they enter Hinkal, and viewing keys let users and businesses share their transaction history with an auditor or regulator whenever they need to. Activity stays private to the public and visible to the people entitled to see it.

It's privacy built for regulated payments, which is where this program is headed.

Looking ahead

Mastercard’s program exists to help digital assets earn a place in everyday commerce, built on trust and compliance. Hinkal’s mission is to make privacy a normal part of onchain money, inside the products people already use and within the rules they already follow.

We’ve always believed onchain money should be as private as the cash in your pocket. Joining Mastercard’s program is one more way we’re bringing that to the payments people use every day.