{"id":667943,"date":"2026-10-07T11:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/crypto-card-access-doesnt-match-global-demand-tangem-says\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T11:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:52:41","slug":"crypto-card-access-doesnt-match-global-demand-tangem-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/crypto-card-access-doesnt-match-global-demand-tangem-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto card access doesn\u2019t match global demand, Tangem says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto<\/p>\n

Crypto card demand can be stronger where access is harder, Tangem says, as the company expands its self-custodial payment offering through Visa.<\/p>\n

More than 40% of Tangem Pay payments come from Latin America and over 30% from the US, while physical card availability remains restricted in some markets, the Swiss crypto wallet provider told Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not simply a question of where people want crypto cards,\u201d Andrey Ilinskiy, head of Tangem Pay, told Cointelegraph, adding: \u201cIt is where demand, regulation, banking infrastructure and card-issuing requirements happen to line up \u2014 and today, those maps do not always overlap.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Tangem announced its first physical Visa card for in-store and online purchases and ATM withdrawals, with an initial release limited to 5,000 cards.<\/p>\n

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Crypto card demand can be stronger where access is harder, Tangem says, as the company expands its self-custodial payment offering through Visa. More than 40% of Tangem Pay payments come from Latin America and over 30% from the US, while physical card availability remains restricted in some markets, the Swiss crypto wallet provider told Cointelegraph. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-667943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}