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by PeterisP 3282 days ago
If we're talking about contactless EMV cards (Phone NFC may be otherwise), then they do pretty much the same thing crypto-wise as in a contact transaction, the chip receives the transaction from the terminal.

The main practical difference is that you can't update the on-card data depending on the transaction outcome, since the card isn't there any more.