Crypto payment card monthly spending rises to 759 million dollars, with dollar-backed stablecoins dominant
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Paymentscan tracking data shows that crypto payment card spending in July rose approximately 2.5 times year over year to 759 million dollars, with USDC and USDT together accounting for approximately 84% of spending.
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Key points
Stablecoins are increasingly being spent by card swipe. Crypto payment cards have gone from a novelty to more than $750 million in monthly spend. These cards let people pay with crypto anywhere traditional card networks are accepted. Behind the scenes, the crypto — stablecoins, overwhelmingly — gets converted to local currency at the point of sale, so the payments look like any other card transactions to merchants. Crypto cardholders don’t require a traditional bank account. Depending on the pro
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Why it matters to readers
The article provides Paymentscan’s tracking methodology and year-over-year data, and clearly states that data for the largest project, RedotPay, was self-reported by the issuer rather than observed on-chain. Therefore, the trend is relatively credible, but the total remains subject to methodological limitations. Crypto cards remain very small compared with traditional card networks, so this currently indicates progress in stablecoin payment adoption rather than a major market shock.
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Risks and unknowns
- Whether Paymentscan’s crypto card spending and transaction count can continue growing in subsequent months
- Whether RedotPay’s self-reported data can be verified through on-chain data or a third-party audit
- Changes in USDC and USDT shares of crypto card settlement
- Settlement shares of Optimism, Solana, and Base, and migration patterns among major card projects
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