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  "name": "Mica",
  "description": "Mica is a modern payment network designed to meet the needs of modern commerce by enabling multi-tender payments without credential exposure. It aims to optimize the entire transaction process, offering enhanced security and functionality compared to legacy payment systems.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-09-12T04:03:00.464Z",
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    "website": "https://mica.io",
    "category": "Payment Network",
    "what_it_does": "Mica provides a modern, credential-less payment network that processes multi-tender transactions, eliminating credential exposure and reducing fraud. It optimizes the entire transaction process by enabling multi-tender payments, item-level adjudication, age verification, and coupon redemption within a single network transaction.",
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    "core_product": "Mica's core product is a credential-less authorization infrastructure, or payment processing platform, that utilizes a patented Universally Unique Ephemeral Key (UUEK) to remove credentials from the commerce flow. This platform enables multi-tender payments, item-level adjudication, age verification, and coupon redemption directly within the network transaction.",
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