Solana Foundation Taps Mastercard, Western Union

The Solana Foundation has introduced the Solana Developer Platform (SDP), a new toolkit designed to enable enterprises and financial institutions to build and scale financial applications on the Solana blockchain. Major companies including Mastercard, Western Union, and Worldpay are early adopters, highlighting a growing institutional interest in blockchain-based settlement and payments. The platform simplifies complex processes through APIs and integrates AI coding tools from OpenAI and Anthropic, allowing for easier creation of tokenized assets, stablecoins, and payment flows.