Mastercard Hires for Crypto Just as Citrini Warns It Could Be Obsolete

Mastercard is hiring a Director of Crypto Flows to lead stablecoin-linked card issuance, scale DeFi payment flows, and rewrite network rules for Web3 transactions. The job posting, first surfaced by crypto journalist Frank Chaparro on Feb. 24, signals a structural push beyond the pilot-stage experiments the payments giant has run so far. The Timing That Writes Itself Days earlier, Citrini Research published “The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,” a doomsday scenario that rapidly went viral on Substack source: https://beincrypto.com/mastercard-hires-for-crypto-as-citrini-warns/