Cardano (ADA) just entered the global payments arena — partnering with Wirex to launch the first-ever Cardano Crypto Card. Announced ahead of the Cardano Summit 2025 in Berlin, this new collaboration will bring ADA and over 685 cryptocurrencies to a single payment platform that connects blockchain finance with the traditional banking world.
Backed by EMURGO, one of Cardano’s founding entities, the Cardano Card will allow users to spend crypto anywhere Visa is accepted, access yield-generating accounts, and even secure loans against their digital assets. With Wirex’s global reach — more than 6 million users across 130 countries and over $20 billion in crypto transactions processed — this partnership marks a massive leap in Cardano’s push to merge DeFi with real-world utility. In this video, we’ll break down how the Cardano Card works, what ADA holders can expect, and why this could be a turning point for blockchain payments.
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Backed by EMURGO, one of Cardano’s founding entities, the Cardano Card will allow users to spend crypto anywhere Visa is accepted, access yield-generating accounts, and even secure loans against their digital assets. With Wirex’s global reach — more than 6 million users across 130 countries and over $20 billion in crypto transactions processed — this partnership marks a massive leap in Cardano’s push to merge DeFi with real-world utility. In this video, we’ll break down how the Cardano Card works, what ADA holders can expect, and why this could be a turning point for blockchain payments.
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00:00Okay, let's talk about a major blockchain, one that's always had this one nagging criticism following it around.
00:07Right. For years, people admired the science, the rigor.
00:10But kept calling it the academic blockchain. You know, great research, solid papers. But where was the real world stuff? The adoption.
00:19And now, almost out of nowhere, this academic player is making a huge jump straight from the lab into your actual wallet.
00:27Exactly the shift we're unpacking today. We're doing a deep dive into the launch of the global Cardano card. It's a major crypto payment card.
00:35And crucially, what this partnership actually means for Cardano's spot in the whole Web3 e-commerce world, which is, let's be honest, evolving incredibly fast.
00:43Yeah, it's super competitive out there. So our mission here is to really understand how this card works day to day.
00:49And the scale of the partnership behind it. That's key.
00:51Right. And why this move, this shift, signals Cardano is finally moving beyond just building things to, well, actually getting involved in spending and competing globally.
01:01What jumps out immediately looking at the sources is the timing. It feels very strategic.
01:06You think so? I mean, the sources mentioned ADA, Cardano's token, is down like 32% year to date. Seems like an odd time, maybe.
01:13Or the perfect time. It's calculated. They're launching this literally right before the Cardano Summit 2025 in Berlin. That's November 12th and 13th.
01:22Ah, OK. So it's not just, here's a new product.
01:25Not at all. It's a narrative reset. They're taking this, frankly, pretty bad market performance and trying to spin it into a huge PR win.
01:32Like tangible proof against those old criticisms about slow delivery. No real utility.
01:37Exactly that. It's a direct answer.
01:38OK, so let's get into the card itself then. What actually is it? We know it connects ADA, obviously, but also, what, over 685 other crypto assets?
01:47To Visa.
01:48Yeah, to Visa's global network.
01:49So if I'm, you know, buying groceries or something, how does that work for me? Is it just another complicated crypto debit card?
01:55Well, they've designed it to be much more than that. It's positioned as a multi-chain financial tool. Think of it like a compliant bridge.
02:03A bridge between, what, TradFi and DeFi. Precisely. Between the centralized world, Visa, and the decentralized landscape.
02:10OK, but the actual transaction, paying for those groceries, how quick is that conversion? Is it clunky?
02:16The goal is frictionless. Instantaneous, really. You swipe, the system calculates, converts the crypto needed into, say, dollars or euros right there at the point of sale.
02:26So the shop owner just sees a normal Visa payment.
02:28Yep. To them, it's business as usual. But the real interesting part, the reason we're diving deep, is the ecosystem it plugs into. It's a hybrid.
02:37Hybrid ecosystem. What does that actually mean for someone holding the card?
02:41It means you're not just spending crypto. You can manage your DeFi stuff directly from the same platform.
02:47Oh, really? Like what?
02:48Well, the card system integrates with staking and yield accounts. And that's all happening inside the Wirex platform, the company issuing the card.
02:56Right. Wirex. We'll get to them. But hold on. Usually, if I wanted to spend staked ABA, it's a whole process, right? Unstake, wait, transfer, sell, bank.
03:05Huh. Lots of steps. Lots of friction.
03:08So you're saying this card just smooths all that out, abstracts it away.
03:12That's the core idea. Remove the friction between earning yield on an asset and actually spending it. It makes your capital much more efficient.
03:19OK, that's genuinely useful. And there's more. The system also lets users borrow fiat, like take out a loan against their crypto holdings.
03:28So you don't even have to sell your crypto to get cash.
03:30Exactly. Access liquidity without selling the underlying asset.
03:34OK. And the retention piece, ADA back rewards on purchases. We've seen crypto reward cards before and some, well, didn't end well with high rewards.
03:44That's a fair point. The high percentages we saw in 2021 were often unsustainable.
03:50So is ADA back enough to keep people using this card?
03:53It's part of a bigger picture, a sort of circular economy they're aiming for. The incentives aren't just the personal cash back, ADA back. There's this unique governance angle.
04:02Governance. How does a payment card tie into governance?
04:05The sources highlight this. A slice of the profit from every car transaction, the fees, the conversions is set to go back to the Cardano treasury.
04:12The Cardano treasury. OK, remind us, that's the community fund, right? Governed by ADA holders, funds development.
04:19Spot on. Community funded, community governed. So every time you use this card for, I don't know, coffee, gas, whatever.
04:26You're not just getting rewards. You're also kicking a little bit back into the Cardano ecosystem itself.
04:31Precisely. You're directly funding future development, research, the whole network's growth. It links everyday spending directly to network health.
04:41That is different. It makes the card more than just a way to spend. It's like an economic engine for Cardano.
04:45Exactly. It shifts it from just being a consumer gadget to a core piece of the ecosystem's financial plumbing.
04:52So if you put it all together, it's competing with cards like Coinbase Card or Crypto.com Visa on the spending front.
04:58But with potentially deeper DeFi integration, plus this unique governance feedback loop that those others don't really have. It's a hybrid play.
05:06OK, but launching something like this globally, 130 countries right off the bat, that needs serious infrastructure. Regulatory approvals, tech.
05:15Advanced scaffolding. And Cardano, being fairly decentralized, couldn't realistically build all that compliance stuff overnight.
05:23Which brings us to the partnership. Emergo, one of Cardano's founding groups, teaming up with Wirex.
05:29Who is Wirex? What do they actually bring to the table here?
05:32Wirex is absolutely crucial. They're the infrastructure piece. They're a regulated digital payments platform.
05:38And they've been around operating at scale.
05:40Scale meaning?
05:41Well, their numbers are pretty impressive. They already have something like 6 million users.
05:456 million. Wow. Across how many countries?
05:48130 countries. So boom, Cardano gets instant global reach.
05:52That's the fast track you mentioned earlier. No need to build country by country.
05:55Absolutely. And it's not just reach. It's proven capability.
05:58Wirex has already processed, get this, over $20 billion in crypto to fiat transactions.
06:03$20 billion. OK, so they know how to handle volume and presumably the complex regulations involved?
06:10Exactly. They bring the scale, the licenses across different regions, the reliable tech stack. It's all there.
06:16So Cardano is essentially outsourcing the hard parts. The compliance, the banking links, the actual card issuing, leaving that to Wirex.
06:25That's a good way to put it. It's smart outsourcing. It lets them skip years of painstaking work trying to build a global compliant financial product from scratch.
06:34A leapfrog maneuver, you called it.
06:36Yeah. They're leveraging Wirex's existing machine, visa integration, bank partners, crypto on-ramps. It's all operational at scale already.
06:46And that quote from the Amerigo CEO, Philip Pond, seems to capture this. He called it a fintech bridge between traditional finance and on-chain finance.
06:54That phrasing is very intentional, I think. It's not just for crypto diehards. They're actively building paths for mainstream users, maybe people in TradFi who are curious about Web3 or DeFi spending but want something, you know, compliant and easy.
07:08This really feels like the point where the story flips, doesn't it? That old academic blockchain criticism.
07:12Right. Great theory, great papers, but slow on adoption, poor on tangible products people can actually use.
07:17How is this card the definitive answer to shut down that criticism?
07:22Because it's utility you can literally hold in your hand and use at a checkout.
07:26It's hard to call a project purely academic when its ecosystem is buzzing with transaction fees, rewards, and funding its own governance every time someone buys a latte.
07:37It's visible, tangible proof.
07:38Demonstrable proof of work right there at the point of sale.
07:41And the benefits for the Cardano network itself seem pretty strategic beyond just silencing critics.
07:48Oh, absolutely. Three big wins jump out. First, massive brand visibility. Cardano's name is now effectively at checkouts worldwide.
07:56Second.
07:56User lock-in or retention, maybe. The integrated DeFi tools within Wirex, staking, borrowing, spending all in one place. Why would you leave?
08:05Makes sense. And third.
08:06That sustainable revenue stream we talked about. The staking integrations, the treasury contributions. It creates a continuous flow back into the ecosystem.
08:14Okay, but this also puts Cardano in a different white class, competitively speaking. It changes who they're up against.
08:19Totally. This move firmly plants Cardano's flag as a payment network, not just another platform for smart contracts and dApps.
08:27So they're going head-to-head with?
08:28Directly against the established players in Web3 Commerce. Think Ethereum's Layer 2s, which are pushing for payment solutions.
08:36Think Solana Pay and its slick integrations.
08:39Like the Shopify one.
08:40Exactly. And Polygon's Web3 Commerce stack, remember their pilot with MasterCard last year? That's the arena Cardano just stepped into.
08:48So the sources highlight these specific examples, Solana Pay, Polygon, MasterCard.
08:52Yeah, to show this isn't theoretical. Web3 payments are happening now. Cardano's jumping off the research bench and onto the field, competing for real global payment volume. Speed and utility are the name of the game now.
09:06But let me push back a bit here. If Wyrix is doing the heavy lifting, the payments, compliance, licenses, isn't Cardano just sort of riding shotgun?
09:14Does it risk making Cardano less relevant, like they're just a feature on Wyrix's platform?
09:19That's the crucial tension here, isn't it? It's a strategic trade-off. They chose speed to market and guaranteed compliance over building it all in-house.
09:28So Cardano's relevance shifts.
09:29I think so. It shifts from being the builder of the payment rails to being the liquidity source and the governance layer that uses and incentivizes those rails.
09:38The key metric isn't, did Cardano build the Visa connection? It's, can Cardano drive transaction volume onto that connection via Wyrix? That's how they prove the utility.
09:48Which brings up another point. Crypto cards were huge back in, what, 2021? Then they kind of faded or blew up. Why are they making such a strong comeback now in 2025?
09:57Yeah, we definitely need to look at how this wave is different from the last one.
10:00Okay, so 2021.
10:02That was mostly about speculative spending, wasn't it? Platforms like Crypto.com, even BlockFi. They were throwing huge, frankly unsustainable cashback rewards. 8%, 10% at users.
10:13Fueled by a bull market and their own token prices soaring.
10:17Exactly. Burning cash to acquire users, assuming the good times would never end.
10:21And we know how that ended for some of them when the market turned.
10:24Right. It imploded. This 2025 wave, the blueprint we're seeing with Cardano, but also hints from players like PayPal. It feels structurally different.
10:33The focus now seems to be on sustainable, compliant crypto fiat bridges. Less reliant on crazy token speculation for the business model to work.
10:43So the big shift is better regulation and a focus on financial stability. Is that it?
10:49I think that's a huge part of it. Global regulators have, well, maybe not perfected things, but they've certainly matured. There's more clarity, especially around stable coins. Custody.
10:59So these cards aren't just novelties anymore.
11:02They're aiming to be mainstream, compliant on-ramps to Web3. Serious financial tools, not just market-dependent gimmicks.
11:09And you see signs of this acceptance in traditional finance too, right? The big players are finally dipping their toes in carefully.
11:16That's the validation, isn't it? Look at PayPal integrating its stablecoin, PYUSD, or moving ahead with broader checkout integrations for crypto.
11:23Big, conservative companies are getting comfortable building compliant digital asset infrastructure.
11:28So the Cardano card, using Wirex's regulated setup, is basically riding that wave of acceptance.
11:34Capitalizing on it, exactly. It feels like this could be a real blueprint for how DeFi actually integrates into daily life.
11:41Not through wild speculation, but through steady, compliant, sustainable usability.
11:46Okay, so wrapping this up, what does this all mean for you, the listener?
11:51Cardano, working with Emergo and Wirex, has pulled off a major move. They've instantly boosted their global reach and utility.
11:58Yeah. Leveraging a platform that already has 6 million users, $20 billion processed, it's a massive shortcut to scale.
12:05And it sends a really clear message. The focus isn't just research anymore. The target is the everyday checkout lane.
12:12And connecting that to the bigger picture, the ultimate goal here is driving transaction volume, growing the ecosystem.
12:18This launch isn't just about the card. It's about attracting developers, payment dApps, maybe even enterprise partners to build on these new compliant payment rails.
12:27So the final thought, the question for you to mull over is this.
12:30Cardano has decisively stepped away from that academic label.
12:34They've prioritized compliant global payment infrastructure, even if it means relying heavily on a partner like Wirex.
12:41Has this given them an edge?
12:43An edge over rivals whose own Layer 2s are maybe still fighting through the regulatory maze, trying to build similar real-world integrations from the ground up.
12:52Exactly. Is outsourcing the friction, the compliance headache, the fastest way to capture market momentum in the Web3 payments race?
12:59It's something to think about, especially where you see the future of everyday crypto spending heading.
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