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By RTTNews Staff Writer | Published: 9/18/2020 10:22 AM ET
Crypto payment card provider Wirex is set to launch the much anticipated Wirex Mastercard card, along with an upgraded crypo rewards program. The move comes two months after Wirex was granted a Mastercard principal membership, allowing it to directly issue payment cards to customers.
U.K.-based Wirex provides a service for digital and traditional currency transactions by integrating the next generation of payments infrastructure integrated with cryptocurrency blockchains.
Wirex will issue the card to customers to make it easier for them to buy, hold and exchange multiple traditional and crypto currencies. Consumers can instantly convert their cryptocurrencies into traditional fiat currency, which can be spent everywhere Mastercard is accepted around the world.
The card will be linked to 19 secure crypto and traditional currency wallets in the Wirex app. It will support BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, WXT, DAI, NANO and XLM as well as USD, SGD, AUD, JPY, HKD, EUR, GBP, CZK, MXN, CAD and CHF.
The new Wirex card is already being touted as a potential competition-killer with the capability to set a new standard in the FinTech and crypto payments space. It will allow cardholders to seamlessly spend multiple fiat and cryptocurrencies in day-to-day life without exchanging or offboarding.
Additionally, the Wirex Mastercard offers Cryptoback, a crypto rewards program that automatically gives customers up to 2 percent back in bitcoin for every purchase made in-store and online. This is claimed to be the world's first bitcoin reward programme. It also offers up to 6% rewards on customers' WXT balance annually. WXT is Wirex's own native utility token.
Last month, Wirex received its first money transmission license in the U.S. and is gearing up to launch its "next-gen cryptocurrency platform linked to a spending card." The license was issued by the state of Georgia's Department of Banking and Finance to Wirex USA.
In June, bitcoin payment processor BitPay teamed up with Mastercard to launch the first ever US prepaid Mastercard called 'BitPay Card' for crypto users in the U.S. that can be loaded with dollars that are converted instantly by liquidating cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
Through a similar partnership, cryptocurrency exchange major Coinbase partnered with Visa to launch a Coinbase Card last year. The Visa debit card lets customers spend their crypto balances direct from their Coinbase account.
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