It's time for Credit Check #3: Crypto Card Programmes
Most crypto cards work the same way. User tops up, user spends and balance goes down.
Meanwhile, their DeFi positions sit in a completely separate world -- earning yield but disconnected from their spending.
What does onchain credit actually mean?
There is onchain lending, and onchain credit.
They sound like the same thing, but they aren't.
A lending protocol gives you a loan against collateral in one pool, on one chain, with one asset. That's a transaction, not infrastructure.
Crypto Cards Weekly Digest: April 20-27
Volume:
RedotPay: $93.03 million
KAST: $16.3 million
EtherFi: $16.45 million
Karta: $6.34 million
Tria: $3.75 million
Gnosis: $2.24 million
Cypher: $2.01 million
Ready: $1.55 million
Other: $6.72 million
Total: $148.4 million (-3.5% WoW)
Transactions:
EtherFi: 202,365
RedotPay: 119,022
Bitget Wallet: 97,735
Gnosis: 47,927
BFinance: 43,112
Safepal: 41,170
MetaMask: 25,196
KAST: 21,732
Other: 56,901
Total: 655,160 (+0.7% WoW)
Users:
RedotPay: 67,373
EtherFi: 20,299
Bitget Wallet: 13,883
BFinance: 11,970
KAST: 7,725
Safepal: 6,571
Tria: 6,085
Gnosis: 5,396
Other: 14,728
Total: 154,030 (+4.8% WoW)
Interesting stats:
Tria was the fastest-growing card by volume (+14.8% WoW)
RedotPay lost quite a big chunk of its dominance to other players (65.6% โ 62.7%)
EtherFi strengthened its lead, now accounting for a ~31% share of all transactions.
If you have ever topped up your crypto card and thought, "there has to be a better way," there is now.
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Selling crypto to buy coffee is a taxable event, a loss of upside, and a drag on compounding. Borrowing against it is none of those. That's what Miso does