WEEKLY WRAP · 2026-10-20

October 13–19, 2026

Reviewed by Card Pilled Editorial · Published 2026-10-20 · Last verified 2026-10-20

TL;DR · This Week

• SHUTDOWN: The Cardano Card Ends October 31 as Wirex Gets Out of Custody
• SHUTDOWN: PlasBit's Website Has Been Dark Since October 10, and Its Card Is Now Unclear
• RATES: Bleap's 1% Stops at €3,000 a Month, and Bybit EU Now Has Its Own Entry
• RATES: Zoomex, Trocador and Tevau All Cost More to Use Now

8 quick hits · market context · 38 cards updated

SHUTDOWN

The Cardano Card Ends October 31 as Wirex Gets Out of Custody

EMURGO's Cardano Card, a Visa issued by Wirex, stops working on October 31. The card's official X account announced it on October 13: Wirex is moving to a non-custodial model and closing its custodial infrastructure, so "our partnership with Wirex ends on 31 Oct 2026." Until then the card "will keep working as normal." What the announcement leaves out is the part you'd actually need. No withdrawal steps, no migration deadline, nothing on balances left in the Wirex app. EMURGO's launch roadmap promised a non-custodial Cardano card for 2026, and nobody has confirmed it's still coming. EMURGO's self-custodial SecondFi card, also built with Wirex, never launched and is discontinued. We never listed the Cardano Card, so there's nothing to close on our side. Wirex is the bigger question. By our records it also issues the Coca, Trustee Plus and BingX cards and its own Wirex card, and it sits behind PlasBit, UTORG and some Solid cards. We found no Wirex statement on the custody exit and no change on any of those cards, so we haven't touched them. Our read: if you hold a Cardano Card, don't wait for withdrawal instructions to show up. Move the balance before the 31st.

Source: Altcoin Buzz

SHUTDOWN

PlasBit's Website Has Been Dark Since October 10, and Its Card Is Now Unclear

We added PlasBit three weeks ago: a reloadable Visa in EUR or USD, issued in partnership with Wirex, with no cashback and 1.5% FX. Since at least October 10, plasbit.com has had no DNS record at PlasBit's own name servers. In plain terms, the site isn't on the internet. We rechecked on October 16 and nothing had changed. The domain is still registered until 2030, and app.plasbit.com answers, but only with an access-denied error. A Rabbit.io post relayed by KuCoin News on October 11 says PlasBit's social accounts are gone too, and that at least one user reported losing access to funds. Neither PlasBit nor Wirex has said anything, so we moved the card from active to unclear rather than discontinued. It's the second Wirex-linked card in this wrap, though nothing we've read ties the outage to Wirex's custody exit. Honestly, a site that disappears without a word worries us more than a shutdown notice, because a notice usually comes with a withdrawal window. If you have money on a PlasBit card, try to get it off now.

Source: Card Pilled PlasBit Card →

RATES

Bleap's 1% Stops at €3,000 a Month, and Bybit EU Now Has Its Own Entry

Two corrections for European spenders, both ours. Bleap's cashback page mentions only a fair usage limit, and in September we read that as no cap. Bleap's Cashback Terms and Conditions (updated May 25) say otherwise: the 1% base covers up to €3,000 of spend a month and €500 a transaction, and the 3% on rides and food delivery covers up to €500 a month per service, €50 a transaction. So the base rate pays €30 a month at most. Someone spending $10,000 a month was worth $1,200 a year in our model. Now it's $360. Bybit was the other gap. Our schema can't hold region-specific rates, so EEA readers were being priced on bybit.com's 2% base capped at $5 a month. The bybit.eu card now has its own listing, and it works differently. Non-VIP cardholders get a flat 1% with no monthly cap but can't spend their way up the ladder. VIP levels 1 to 6 earn 2% to 10%, capped at €50 to €600 a month. Past roughly €500 a month of spend, the uncapped 1% earns more than bybit.com's 2% does once its $5 cap bites. One catch: the 0.9% conversion fee applies to every crypto-funded transaction, so if you spend crypto, that 1% is closer to 0.1%.

Source: Bleap Bleap Card → Bybit EU Card →

RATES

Zoomex, Trocador and Tevau All Cost More to Use Now

None of these three publishes a cashback rate, which makes fees the whole comparison, and Friday's rotating check found all three costlier overall. Zoomex's card page now lists a 1% to 2% FX fee and 1% to convert crypto to fiat, where we had both at 0%. Its 1% promo cashback ended in April. So $1,000 of foreign spend funded with crypto can now cost up to $30, with nothing coming back. Trocador, the no-KYC card reseller, is down to a single card, an Obsidian USD Mastercard: $5 a month after the second month (it was about $2.50), 2.75% FX (about 2% before) and $0.60 per purchase. Tevau's fee table charges $0.20 plus 0.5% on every USD card transaction, so we dropped the "no spending fee" tag we had on it. The one move in your favour: Tevau's ATM fee on the physical card fell from 2% to 1.9%. Our read: a card that pays nothing back has to win on cost, and none of these three does that more cheaply than it did a month ago.

Source: Trocador Zoomex Card → Trocador Prepaid Cards → Tevau Card →

Quick Hits

1. Crypto card spending across 29 issuers passed $1 billion a month for the first time in September, at $1.01 billion, nearly triple January's $398 million, per CoinGecko's Q3 report as covered by Seoul Economic Daily. The same piece argues the cards could become a tax blind spot in Korea, since the transactions are hard for tax authorities to trace. No rule has changed. source
2. Gate announced Gate Money on October 18, a payments product alongside Gate Card and Gate Pay. Gate hasn't published regions, fees or what funds it, and nothing changes for existing Gate Card holders. source
3. Slash Card, billed as Japan's first card you can pay with stablecoins, is now open to the public. You download the Slash App, create an account and pass identity verification (Japan residents 18 and over). The physical card costs 35 USDC during the launch campaign, half its usual 70 USDC, and no cashback rate is published yet. source Slash Card →
4. xKard now sells its cards as XHYPE cards on annual plans: Essential at $10 a year with a 2.1% top-up fee, Premium at $58 (1.8%) and Whale at $70 (1.2%). Premium and Whale include a physical card, and three-year plans cost $118 and $148. source xKard →
5. The Robinhood Gold Card needs an active annual Gold subscription, and its card page says no 30-day free trial applies (we have Gold at $50 a year). Paying for Gold month to month doesn't qualify, and new applicants still join a waitlist. source Robinhood Gold Card →
6. Solid Card's FX fee is now 1.5% at every tier, where it was 2% on Core, 1.5% on Prime and 1% on Ultra. Core users pay less abroad, Ultra users pay more. source Solid Card →
7. E Money Network is being discontinued, according to a banner on emoney.network and E Money's own blog. Neither says the E Money Card stops, so we still list it as active. source E Money Card →
8. Young Platform now states it holds MiCAR CASP authorisation from Consob and the Banca d'Italia. source Young Platform Card →

Database Updates

Cards updated this week: PlasBit Card → Bleap Card → Bybit Card → Zoomex Card → Trocador Prepaid Cards → Tevau Card → xKard → Robinhood Gold Card → Solid Card → Slash Card → E Money Card → Young Platform Card → KuCard → Oobit Card → OffGrid Cash → RedotPay → Bitwala Card → Agora Card → Wirex Card → Brighty Card → Kardpay → Goblin Card → Cryptomus Card → Crypto.com Visa Card → bitFlyer Credit Card → Sovrae Card → Ikigii Card → Ripio Card → Tangem Pay → Ether.fi Cash → Tuyo Card → Kredete Card → Kripicard → Shakepay Card → Exodus Card → MetaMask Card → Baanx / Ledger CL Card →

New cards added: Bybit EU Card →

Every recorded change, card by card →

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