Cashi launches public beta for stablecoin spending app and Visa card

Aninda Chakraborty

Wed, August 12, 2026 astatine 7:57 AM CDT 1 min read

Cashi has launched a nationalist beta of its stablecoin spending app and Visa card, positioning the merchandise arsenic a mode for users to clasp stablecoins and walk them via a card.

In a blog post, the institution said users tin deposit USDT oregon USDC and person a virtual Visa card.

Cardholders past tin wage wherever Visa is accepted, including online and in-store utilizing Google Pay.

The institution expects a afloat motorboat earlier the extremity of the year.

Cashi is targeting radical who are paid successful 1 currency and walk successful another. The institution said balances stay successful stablecoins until the constituent of purchase, erstwhile the transaction is processed done the card.

Cashi laminitis and CEO Esther Wong said: "We built Cashi astir a elemental idea: wealth should beryllium casual to hold, casual to spend, and dependable successful value.

"Our users are freelancers, families, and travellers who already unrecorded globally. They don't privation to commercialized crypto. They privation wealth that's simple, stable, and spendable. That's the full product."

At launch, users tin adhd the virtual paper to Google Pay for in-store payments. Cashi said Apple Pay enactment and carnal cards are planned for the afloat launch.

The institution besides reported that much than 1,100 radical joined its waitlist up of the beta release.

Separately, issuer processing level Thredd said it has been selected by Cashi to powerfulness its stablecoin spending and cashback paper programme.

The programme is unrecorded successful Hong Kong, with enlargement into Mexico planned for precocious 2026.

"Cashi launches nationalist beta for stablecoin spending app and Visa card" was primitively created and published by Electronic Payments International, a GlobalData owned brand.