Crypto card haters are having a rough week.
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Crypto card communities are absolutely cooking right now.
The amount of discussion around these projects on X has gone insane — and it’s not just noise, it’s turning into real payment volume.
I pulled up X Radar and checked:
mentions of the projects
mentions of their cards
across the week to see what actually dominated the timeline.
Which project did you see the most on your feed?
“Crypto card projects won’t survive.”
Let’s rewind one year and look at what actually happened:
Visa‑issued crypto card spending jumped 525% in 2025, with net spend going from $14.6M in January to $91.3M by December.
Monthly crypto card transaction volume climbed to ~$1.5B by late 2025, up from around $100M in early 2023.
Cumulative crypto card payment volumes have already hit multi‑billion dollar territory and are still accelerating.
That’s not “won’t survive”.
That’s “quietly becoming one of the main ways people spend crypto”.
The narrative said:
“these cards are a fad.”
The data says:
volumes 10–15x’d while CT was busy shitting on them.
Which is why I’m way more interested in:
who actually gets mindshare on X, and
who is quietly stacking real payment volume behind the scenes.
Quote this with the card project you’ve seen the most on your TL this week —
then come back in a year and check if their volume followed the timeline or not.
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