Wallet cards: who should pick one

Pick a wallet card if the thing you least want is a third party sitting on your coins. The coins stay under your own keys, and the provider only steps in at the moment of payment, swapping them for local currency.

Before choosing, read each entry for four things: the price of the card, the coins and networks that can fund it, whether your country is served, and who stands behind the issuing side. Those four answers rule out most options quickly.

Keep one limit in mind. Holding your own keys moves the danger around and does not remove it. A forgotten seed phrase has no reset button, and the issuer can still suspend the card. Every entry says where that boundary sits.

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