Making Crypto Spendable: Bitget Wallet and Mastercard Take the Stage at EthCC
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This week at EthCC 2025, we took a major step forward in our mission to bring crypto into everyday life. We officially unveiled our new
Zero-Fee Crypto Card, developed in partnership with Mastercard and Immersve, and brought the product to life through a keynote and side event that connected some of the brightest minds across Web3 and payments.
At the heart of it all? One big question:
How do we make crypto truly usable in the real world?
A Joint Vision for Everyday Crypto
Our journey at EthCC began with a keynote titled
"
Making Crypto Spendable
", where our CMO Jamie Elkaleh joined Christian Rau, SVP at Mastercard, to dive deep into what it takes to merge Web3 with traditional financial systems.
Christian kicked things off by reflecting on Mastercard's six-decade mission to deliver secure, simple, and universal payments. While Web3 may seem like a different paradigm, he made one thing clear: the best parts of blockchain—programmability, transparency, and decentralization—don't need to be at odds with trusted financial infrastructure but can be complementary.
Jamie echoed that sentiment from the Web3 side. "Wallets aren't just for storage anymore," he said. "They're becoming full financial interfaces. And users need tools that offer both control and convenience, whether that means earning onchain yields or tapping to pay for a coffee."
PayFi Rising: Celebrating the Card with Mastercard
To mark the launch, we teamed up with Mastercard to host
“
PayFi Rising: Building the Rails
”, an exclusive EthCC side event that brought together builders, founders, and fintech pioneers to explore the future of crypto payments in an intimate, high-energy setting.
Guests were treated to a fireside chat between Mastercard's Christian Rau and Jerome Faury, CEO of Immersve, the issuer that powers the card's backend. Together, they broke down how onchain-to-fiat conversion can now be done in real time, with funds staying in the user's wallet until the moment of purchase. The experience mirrors that of a traditional debit card but retains the ethos of self-custody and compliance.
How the Bitget Wallet Card Works
The Bitget Wallet Card is available directly through our app and users can apply within minutes. Once approved, the card can be added to their mobile wallet for online and in-store use. Transactions are funded instantly with their crypto through onchain swaps with no top-ups or off-ramps needed.
The product leverages Mastercard Digital First technology, and transactions are processed by Immersve under Mastercard’s regulatory framework, including full KYC and AML. The initial rollout covers the UK and EU, with Latin America, Australia, and New Zealand next on the roadmap.
And yes—it's zero-fee, meaning no top-up charges and optional cashback incentives for early adopters.
Beyond the Card: The Bigger Picture
The card is just one piece of our broader
PayFi strategy, Bitget Wallet’s end-to-end solution for crypto-powered payments. Whether you're shopping online, paying in-store, or sending funds across borders, we're building the infrastructure to make self-custody truly functional.
Alongside the card, Bitget Wallet offers three core ways to spend crypto:
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Tap to Pay: Use your crypto card at physical stores, online checkouts, or anywhere Mastercard is accepted globally.
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Scan to Pay: Pay by using the integrated Solana Pay or scanning national QR codes like VietQR —seamlessly converting stablecoins to local currency at checkout.
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Shop in Wallet: Our Shop tab lets users buy gift cards, mobile top-ups, and gaming credits from thousands of global merchants directly within the wallet, using their crypto.
And it's all designed to work within a single app, with a real-time swap engine that handles funding on the spot. That means you can stake Solana in the morning, spend USDC by lunch, and still have your unspent assets earning yields by evening.
What's Next
As Jamie put it on stage:
"The
future
of crypto isn't about replacing traditional finance
but
it's about giving people more choice, with better tools." That means more integration, expanded merchant coverage, and enhanced PayFi capabilities that bring crypto into the flow of everyday life. We’re building not just a wallet, but a super app that lets you trade, earn, pay, and discover. One that puts crypto to work for you, every single day. The future of finance is here. And it’s already in your pocket.
About Bitget Wallet
Bitget Wallet is a non-custodial crypto wallet designed to make crypto simple, seamless and secure for everyone. With over 80 million users, it brings together a full suite of crypto services, including swaps, market insights, staking, rewards, a DApp browser, and crypto payment solutions. Supporting 130+ blockchains, 20,000+ DApps, and a million tokens, Bitget Wallet enables seamless multi-chain trading across hundreds of DEXs and cross-chain bridges. Backed by a $300+ million user protection fund, it ensures the highest level of security for users' assets. Its vision is Crypto for Everyone — to make crypto simpler, safer, and part of everyday life for a billion people.
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