{"id":72251,"date":"2023-01-09T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72251"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:59:44","slug":"mastercard-and-polygon-to-launch-web3-programme-for-emerging-musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/mastercard-and-polygon-to-launch-web3-programme-for-emerging-musicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastercard and Polygon to launch Web3 programme for emerging musicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The payment giant Mastercard, in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polygon-matic\">Polygon<\/a>, announced the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-programme Mastercard Artist Accelerator for emerging musicians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We\u2019re excited to grow our music footprint with the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Web3?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Web3<\/a>-based Mastercard Artist Accelerator, announced today at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CES?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CES<\/a>! The new platform will help emerging artists pursue their passion and accelerate their music careers. \ud83c\udfb6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ckwiqCV3Ob\">https:\/\/t.co\/ckwiqCV3Ob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mastercard News (@MastercardNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MastercardNews\/status\/1611434461236985856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The programme is set to begin in spring 2023. The organisers intend to support the development of musicians, DJs and producers in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p>Participants are promised exclusive access to events, music releases, training in issuing their own non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and more.<\/p>\n<p>The payments giant will also release a limited NFT collection, Mastercard Music Pass, which will give fans access to training alongside programme participants.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December 2022, Polygon <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-and-hi-launch-web3-debit-nft-debit-mastercard\">launched a Web3 platform<\/a> for personalising NFT Debit Mastercard debit cards issued by the Hi fintech app.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The payment giant Mastercard, in partnership with Polygon, announced the launch of the Web3 Mastercard Artist Accelerator programme for emerging musicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,70,1264,1110],"class_list":["post-72251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-mastercard","tag-polygon-matic","tag-web-3-0"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72253,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72251\/revisions\/72253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}