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Merchant category code

Four-digit code a card network assigns to a merchant to describe its line of business, used by issuers to apply interchange, restrictions and rewards eligibility.

Known aliases

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

invest1 publisher

Visa reroutes meme coin card purchases onto crypto merchant codes

Chase challenged a single misclassified Visa purchase. The network has told payment processors that the code covering e-books and music will not carry meme coin checkouts. The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate the same week.

Publishers:decrypt.co

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption25
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence40