Altcoin News: Mastercard Is Looking for Employees to Work on a Cryptocurrency Wallet

August 5, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

Mastercard has opened three management vacancies for the development of cryptocurrency payments and wallets project.

One of the vacancies is entitled “product development & innovation — blockchain solutions architect” and “product management — cryptocurrency/wallets,” and one vice president in the product management of blockchain. New employees will “work with a cross-functional team comprising of Franchise, Compliance, Regulation, Products, Labs, Regions and Technology to develop new products and solutions.”

Two positions require candidates to have experience in managing cryptocurrency storage products. What exactly is to develop these employees, the company does not specify. It is possible that they can start creating a custodial solution within the framework of cooperation between Mastercard and Facebook.

Mastercard is one of the 27 founding members of the Libra cryptocurrency project Facebook has announced. Organization members are encouraged to develop their own Libra blockchain applications, including alternative cryptocurrency wallets.

Last April, Mastercard introduced the technology to accelerate synchronization of nodes in the blockchain.

Author: Marko Vidrih