{"id":28829,"date":"2020-09-17T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=28829"},"modified":"2025-08-27T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:36:32","slug":"wirex-to-launch-mastercard-enabled-multi-currency-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wirex-to-launch-mastercard-enabled-multi-currency-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Wirex to launch Mastercard-enabled multi-currency card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The processing service Wirex announced the launch of a multi-currency card linked to 19 crypto and fiat assets.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We are beyond excited to announce our biggest ever product overhaul \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n<p>All good things come in threes. And the first of our three-phase, revolutionary product overhaul will be made available to Wirex users in the EEA today.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XK2HtjFEWW\">https:\/\/t.co\/XK2HtjFEWW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wirex (@wirexapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wirexapp\/status\/1306534840540381184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 17, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The card will be Mastercard-enabled. The official release date has not yet been announced, but Wirex has already begun preparing the service for users in the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n<p>In the first phase, the startup updated its Cryptoback bonus program. While users previously earned up to 1.5% in BTC back for each transaction, the reward rate has now risen to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in July, Wirex gained licensed status as a participant in the Mastercard network. This allows the startup to issue payment cards within the system with automatic conversion of digital assets into fiat.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Wirex allowed verified Russian users to buy Bitcoin, ETH, LTC, XRP, DAI and WXT using debit and credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The processing service Wirex announced the launch of a multi-currency card linked to 19 crypto and fiat assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1229,70,833],"class_list":["post-28829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-banks-and-fintech","tag-mastercard","tag-wirex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28830,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28829\/revisions\/28830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}