2026 Crypto Card Market Report: 162 Cards

What is counted

This report describes the 162 products in this directory, not the whole market. There is no census of crypto cards to compare against, and this site does not claim to cover every product; what gets included depends on finding a traceable official entry point, not on sampling. Every rate here should therefore be read as "within this directory" and never as a market share.

Of the 162, 150 are active profiles and 16 have shut down or are winding down. By group: 46 on-chain and self-custody, 73 standalone wallet and payment cards, 31 exchange cards, and 12 discontinued archives.

Why "not published" is not "free"

The easiest mistake to make about fees is to read "the provider did not say" as "the provider said no". This site treats a fee that appears nowhere in the official pages, help centre or card terms as "not published" and counts it in no numerator. That makes the disclosure rate look lower, but treating an unknown as a favourable term is the more serious error.

Foreign-exchange fees fall into three groups: 58 cards that state a specific figure (median 1%, of which 11 are 0%), 2 that describe the fee in words only, and 102 that publish nothing. The finding quotes the first group, because it is the only one a median can be taken over.

Identity checks work the same way. Of the 150 products that have not shut down, 136 explicitly require verification, 5 leave it to the issuer's discretion and 9 carry no provider statement. Zero are verified as active and requiring no KYC — not "very few", but no evidence supporting any, and this site will not write no-evidence up as no-KYC.

Why Apple Pay gets two rates

Of the 162, 68 have official confirmation of support, 85 carry no provider statement, 4 rest on community reports, 4 are explicitly unsupported and 1 have contradictory provider statements. Divided by all cards that is 42.0%; divided by the 77 whose status is known it is 88.3%. Both are right — they answer different questions: the first asks how likely a randomly drawn crypto card is to state support, the second what the support rate is among the products that disclose anything at all.

How issuers are counted

The issuer field in the card data is free text, and all 162 records are written differently — "Rain", "Rain (Visa principal member)", "issued by Lead Bank / managed by Bridge" and "Rain or Wirex (by country of residence)" all appear, and a further 72 name no entity at all, saying only "varies by region" or "licensed partner". A concentration figure produced by fuzzy matching is one a reader cannot reproduce, so the 42 entities this site can verify are listed one by one, with the cards counted under each named below.

A brand describing itself does not count as naming an entity: wording like "KazePay card programme" or "Breet, with a compliant partner bank across Africa" says that the brand runs the programme and discloses no third-party issuer, so it is not counted as named. That pushes concentration lower than it might look, but counting self-description as disclosure would overstate transparency.

The three named in the finding — Rain, Bridge and Lead Bank — account for 37 cards between them; widened to all 42 entities it is 90 cards, of which 18 are named by more than one product. A card with multiple issuers is counted under each of them, so the per-entity figures sum to more than 90.