Wallet card fees and costs
Money first: what does a card that spends from your own wallet charge? The coins stay under your keys until a purchase, at which point the provider converts them at the till, and that conversion is where charges tend to sit.
The section lays out the price of the card, the fees on each coin and network used for topping up, who qualifies to order it and what the issuer behind it is allowed to do.
A lost seed phrase costs everything in the wallet and cannot be reset, and the issuer can still freeze the card. Reviews note where that risk comes in alongside the fees.
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Karma card review: costs, limits, who can use it
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KAST card review: crypto-funded spending with stablecoin top-ups
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Kolo card review: funding a virtual card with crypto
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Ledger Cl card review: costs, limits, and who should get one
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Lydian card review: a Visa backed by stablecoins, but with gaps in the fine print
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MetaMask Card review: a self-custody card for crypto users
MetaMask Card turns a self-custody crypto wallet into an ordinary Mastercard. You do not send your money to an exchange and wait…
MiniPay card review: a crypto Visa you already pay with
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Monolith card review: what happened and what to use instead
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MP card review: a Visa line for a non-custodial crypto wallet
I spent a few days going through MP's public pages, the help centre and the few bits of press that mention the…
NAKA card review: spending USDT from a self-custody wallet
The NAKA card is one of a small group of payment products that try to skip the usual step: instead of topping…
Oobit card review: fees, limits and who it really suits
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Oppi card review: who it suits, what it costs, what to check
Oppi is not really a bank account with a card bolted on. It is a self-custody crypto wallet, and the card is…