A crypto cashback card from an exchange, with the price list left blank

Updated October 2026
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usAvailable in US
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A payment card next to a phone with a crypto wallet app open

CoinUp is a crypto exchange, and the CoinUp card is what the exchange offers its customers in the way of a payment card: a virtual Mastercard you create in the app, up to five of them, and a physical Visa card you order and have delivered. Both are topped up with crypto from your exchange balance, both spend like an ordinary card in a shop, and purchases earn crypto cashback. The appeal is obvious if you already keep your money inside the exchange — the card turns a balance that sits idle into something you can spend, and gives a small kickback for doing it.

CoinUp works as a payment card spent from a crypto balance

The catch is that the parts of the offer that would let you decide whether it’s cheap are the parts the public pages don’t publish. There is no annual fee and no inactivity fee, and that is stated plainly. There is also no stated issuance fee, no stated conversion fee, no stated foreign-exchange fee, no stated ATM fee, and no stated minimum top-up. Those are not small omissions. On a card that converts crypto to a currency and hands the result to a merchant in another country, conversion and exchange rates are the two numbers that decide what a purchase actually costs, and CoinUp does not put them on the pages I could read. Add the fact that the physical card’s monthly limit is stated as “up to USD 1M” while the virtual card’s limits are not stated at all, and you are being asked to trust the brand rather than check the maths.

I scored it 6.1 out of 10. It is a competent card with a genuinely generous shape — five virtual cards, cashback on every purchase, mobile wallets, no annual or inactivity charge — attached to a business whose public complaint record is poor and whose issuing licence and issuer are not disclosed. The score is not low because the card is badly built. It is middling because the card looks cheap and the evidence you would need to prove it is missing, and because the complaints about the parent exchange are not a stray bad review but the dominant theme across the small sample that exists.

Criterion Mark Why
Who can get it 8 / 10 “170+ countries and regions”, though the card is stated as available in “select regions”, so the headline number is wider than the practical one
Cost 6 / 10 No annual fee and no inactivity fee, but issuance and the other fees are not disclosed
Top-up options 5 / 10 Topping up with crypto from a CoinUp account, but no coins and no networks are named
Reliability and complaints 3 / 10 CoinUp Global Limited; no issuer named; Trustpilot on the exchange shows 2.7 of 5 across 12 reviews, with frozen funds and blocked accounts
Everyday use 8 / 10 Virtual Mastercard, up to 5 cards; physical Visa with ATM access; Apple Pay and Google Pay on the virtual card
Total 6.1 / 10 A usable card with a strong daily-use profile and a weak transparency and complaints profile

Who this suits: exchange users who already hold a balance at CoinUp and want to spend it, with a crypto kickback for doing so, and who are comfortable reading the fee schedule inside the app before their first transaction rather than on a public page. Who it does not suit: anyone who needs to know the exact cost of a conversion before they commit, anyone who plans to move real sums through a physical card at a cash machine, and anyone for whom an unnamed issuer and an unnamed licence are disqualifying. It is also not a good fit as a first card if you have never held crypto, because the top-up path runs straight through an exchange account.

Everything below is current as of October 28, 2026.

Will they give you the card?

They say yes to a very large map. CoinUp states “170+ countries and regions” for the card programme, which is the widest eligibility claim of any card in this comparison. In the same breath the card page narrows it: the product is “available in select regions. Check the app”. So the honest reading is that the number describes the exchange’s footprint, while the card itself is opened region by region and the app is the arbiter of whether your particular one is live.

That distinction matters if you are outside Europe. There is no published list of eligible countries, no list of excluded ones, and no stated rule about citizenship as against residence. If you are trying to work out whether you can have the card before you make an account, the answer has to come from the app — and, more honestly, from support before you fund anything. The card pages do not say what happens if you are turned down, and they do not say whether a rejection is based on where you live, where your documents are from, or something else.

There is also a question about who the counterparty actually is, and here the pages are quiet. The entity behind the service is CoinUp Global Limited; the issuer of the physical Visa card is not named, and no licences are listed. That is not automatically a red flag — plenty of programmes run through partners — but it means the card sits behind a structure you cannot see from the outside. Compare that with a regulated European e-money institution, which must hold safeguarding arrangements for customer funds and, under MiCA, is subject to authorisation requirements in its own right. Nothing here says CoinUp has none of those. It says the pages do not tell you.

Two further points on eligibility. Card schemes generally expect prepaid and debit cards to go to adults, and the exchange’s own KYC will require an identity document and a selfie-grade check. And the card’s availability follows the exchange’s, not a separate programme: if the exchange stops serving a country, the card goes with it. For a person who picked a crypto card precisely because ordinary banking was awkward, that dependency is worth holding consciously rather than discovering later.

How to get it

The route is short and it runs through the exchange, not around it. CoinUp’s own requirements are an active CoinUp account, completed KYC identity verification — the app says “in just a few minutes” — and an eligible region. The sequence the card gives is: create the account and pass KYC, apply for the card in the app, top up, spend. There is no separate application form, no interview, and no stated deposit requirement to be approved.

The verification detail is worth pausing on, because “a few minutes” describes the check, not the outcome. KYC is not a formality in this sector. It means the exchange verifies your identity and then keeps monitoring: rules that require regulated businesses to verify customers and assess risk as part of anti-money-laundering law carry with them ongoing transaction monitoring and reporting of suspicious activity. In the EU the due diligence covers name, address, date of birth, nationality, identity documentation, a sanctions check, the purpose of the relationship, and whether you are politically exposed. In the US the customer identification programme requires name, date of birth, address and an identification number, with electronic systems also validating proof-of-address documents.

That is why accounts get frozen and documents get asked for twice, and it is the single most common thing people trip over when they open an exchange account for the first time. What the CoinUp pages do not state is what happens at each KYC level — there is no published list of tiers and what each one unlocks. So you cannot tell in advance whether your verification opens the card application or whether the card sits behind a higher level you will need to reach first.

Once approved, you get a choice of two cards, and they are not the same product:

Applying for the physical card is the point at which you most want a number you cannot get. Delivery cost, delivery time and the issuance fee are all unstated, and in most of this category the physical card is where the surprise lives. Go into the app and read what the order screen says before you confirm; if the screen is also silent, that silence is itself the answer.

Fees: what it really costs

Here is the honest position. CoinUp states two fees clearly and leaves the rest unstated, and the unstated ones are the expensive ones.

A receipt and a card on a café table
What a CoinUp payment costs depends on the conversion and currency fees
Fee or limit What CoinUp states
Annual fee “No annual or inactivity fees” (virtual card); physical card: “No VIP requirement, annual or inactivity fees”
Inactivity fee None, on both cards
Issuance fee (virtual) Not stated
Issuance fee (physical) Not stated
Conversion fee (crypto to card currency) Not stated
Foreign-exchange / currency fee Not stated
ATM withdrawal fee Physical card has ATM withdrawals; fee not stated
Monthly limit, physical card “Up to USD 1M monthly limit”
Monthly limit, virtual card Not stated
Cashback rate and payout coin Crypto cashback on every purchase; rate and coin not stated
Minimum top-up Not stated
Card currency Not stated

Two card types, and the shape matters: a virtual Mastercard, up to 5 of them, and a physical Visa, one. The pages say the cards are topped up separately, and that there is no VIP requirement for the physical card. So the physical card is not gated behind a subscription tier or a large balance — that is genuinely to its credit, and it is unusual.

But the number I would want before spending anything is the conversion rate, and it is not published. Let me walk you through three everyday payments and what you are actually paying, using only what the card states.

A coffee. Say it costs the equivalent of USD 4. You pay with the virtual card. What happens is that crypto in your CoinUp balance is converted into the card’s currency, and then the merchant’s acquirer takes a percentage. The card page names no conversion fee, so the whole cost is whatever spread the exchange applies inside the conversion. You cannot tell from the public pages whether that spread is a fraction of a percent or several percent, and on a small purchase a percentage spread is the whole bill. Add crypto cashback on the purchase, which is stated to exist but at an unstated rate. If the cashback is a rounding error, it changes nothing; if it is a percent or two, it offsets a meaningful slice of that spread. You will not know which until you look in the app.

A subscription. Say it is USD 20 a month on the virtual card, paid automatically. Here three unknowns stack. The conversion rate again. The card currency, which is not stated, so you do not know what the subscription will be charged in and whether your own bank’s bill will show a foreign-currency line on your side as well. And the merchant-category code — the four-digit number that classifies what kind of business it is — which for some merchants means your card is refused outright by policy rather than by law. The list of blocked categories varies by issuer, and the card page does not publish CoinUp’s.

Cash from an ATM. Here is where I would be most cautious, because the physical card has ATM withdrawals available, the fee is not stated, and neither is the exchange rate applied to the cash. You also need a plausible account of how many other people are drawing from the same machine at the same time and whether the issuer’s daily and monthly limits — the card states “up to USD 1M monthly limit” for the physical card — actually behave the way the ceiling suggests. A published ceiling that high reads as a marketing line rather than a working constraint, and it tells you very little about your own daily ceiling, which is not stated.

Compare that with what a competitor publishes. Bybit Card, for example, states a crypto conversion fee of 0.9% over the sell rate across several regions, 0.5% in Argentina, foreign-exchange fees of 2% on top of the network rate in several markets, 7% in Argentina, 1.5% in Brazil and 1% in Peru, plus regional padding of 0% or 5%. It also states physical issuance fees — 29.99 USD in Australia, 5 USD or USDT in Argentina, 29.99 USDT in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Asia Pacific, none in Brazil and Mexico — and lists the card currency for each region. CoinUp publishes none of that. Whether CoinUp is cheaper or dearer than those numbers is not something I can tell you, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I can tell you is that you are asked to find out yourself, inside an app, probably by making a transaction.

The one cost that is genuinely not the provider’s to set: on-chain network fees for your deposit are charged by the blockchain, not by the card provider. Whatever network you send on, that layer is separate.

My advice, and it is not advice about circumventing anything: before the first real payment, open the app, find the fee schedule, and write down the conversion rate, the exchange-rate margin, the ATM fee, the issuance fee and the daily limit. If those five numbers cannot be found without contacting support, that fact is itself part of your decision to use the card.

Top up

Topping up the CoinUp card is one action in the app and one underlying transfer, and the card pages describe it as ready to use instantly. You move crypto from your CoinUp account to the CoinUp card, and from then on it is card balance. Coins not stated, networks not stated, fees not stated, minimum not stated.

A phone showing a stablecoin transfer screen
Topping up CoinUp starts with a transfer to the right network

That last sentence is the whole section, and I want to be plain about why it is more than a documentation quibble. Topping up a crypto card means a blockchain transfer, and blockchain transfers have properties that bank transfers do not. They are typically irreversible: if you send on a network the card provider does not support, or to an address belonging to a different network, the funds can be lost or need manual recovery with no guarantee of success. And networks differ in what they charge and what they need. ERC-20 tokens live on Ethereum and the gas for a transfer is paid only in ETH, so a wallet holding USDT and no ETH cannot send. Tron prices transactions with bandwidth and energy, commonly burning TRX. Tether’s USDT has been issued across Ethereum, Tron, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche and others, so “USDT” alone does not tell you what you are sending or what it will cost. Stablecoins are also not interchangeable across chains in every direction — Circle stopped supporting USDC on Tron in February 2024, so “USDC over TRC20” is not a native option.

So “which coin, which network” is not trivia here. It is the difference between a top-up that lands and one that disappears. And the card pages answer neither. The exchange app is where this information has to come from, and the honest advice is: confirm the coin and the network in the app before you send anything from another wallet, and prefer a transfer from a balance you can afford to be wrong about. Note also that withdrawing money back out is not stated on the card pages — the withdrawal terms you would be relying on are the exchange’s, not a card feature.

One more asymmetry to be aware of. Tether says it disables tokens in wallets on the OFAC sanctions list and has frozen funds tied to illicit activity. Stablecoins are not censorship-proof in either direction, which cuts both ways: it means the system can act on frozen assets, and it means your own funds can be frozen by an issuer’s compliance processes.

Paying with it every day

This is where the card does its best work, and the design is stronger than the disclosure. Up to five virtual cards on one account is a genuinely useful feature: separate cards for subscriptions, for spending, for something you want to freeze or throw away, each with its own limits and its own history. The virtual card works with Apple Pay and Google Pay, which is how most people will actually use it day to day — tapping a phone beats presenting a card number at a counter.

How mobile wallet payments work is worth knowing, because it explains why adding the card to Apple Wallet is a real security step rather than a convenience. Apple Pay replaces the card number with a device-specific Device Account Number held in the Secure Element, never on Apple’s servers, and each payment generates a one-time dynamic security code. Card issuers can also restrict a tokenised number — blocking it on magnetic stripe, on a phone, or on websites, for example. Some issuers give you that control per card. The CoinUp pages say the card settings are managed in the CoinUp App, and on the physical card that the card comes with real-time alerts and PIN verification. Those are the right features to have.

There is one usability decision to check: whether to use the virtual card’s mobile wallet tokens on physical-card terminals and online checkouts. The two cards are different products — Mastercard virtual, Visa physical. If you are testing merchant acceptance, it is worth testing the card you will actually use.

Two things will shape your daily experience and neither is described. First, acceptance. A merchant can look up the card’s BIN — the six- or eight-digit issuer identification number at the front of a card number — and see which institution and country issued it, and apply extra scrutiny if the issuer country differs from the billing address. Some merchants decline prepaid or foreign BINs as a result. This is why a card issued in one country can look foreign in another, and it is not fixable from your side. Address verification, which compares the numeric parts of the billing address you type against the issuer’s records, is mainly offered in the US, Canada and the UK and is generally unavailable for foreign-issued cards, which can cause declines. If a payment you expected to work fails, that family of reasons is worth knowing before you assume something is broken.

Second, holds. A declined authorisation may leave a hold on your funds that can remain for several days, typically up to 7. With a crypto balance underneath, a stuck hold is a real inconvenience rather than an accounting nuisance, and “instantly ready to use” stops being true while it sits. Nobody at CoinUp has published how disputes work — there is no chargeback policy on the card pages — so I would treat the shape of that problem as unknown.

On cashback: crypto cashback on every purchase is stated, and the rate and the coin are not. That is a marketing line until you can see the rate. It is also worth asking how it is paid, since a cashback paid in the platform’s own token is not the same as a discount.

The app itself, as a signal of whether this is a maintained product: the App Store listing for the exchange app “CoinUp.io-Buy Crypto,Eth,DOGE” sits at 4.57 from 28 ratings, version 100037 dated 2026-07-04. That is a thin number of ratings, and it is the exchange’s app, not the card’s — there is no separate card app. What it does tell you is that the software you will manage the card in is actively updated and that users rate it well within a small sample. Two reviewers in the same period mention fast KYC and an easy interface.

What can go wrong

Two risks dominate here, and I want to separate them because they are different in kind. One is about this card. The other is about the company behind it, and it is the heavier of the two.

The card is thinly documented. Unstated conversion fees, unstated issuance fee, unstated ATM fee, unstated limits on the virtual card, unstated cashback rate, unstated card currency. This is not a prediction of disaster; it is a statement that you cannot model your own spending. If a fee turns out to be higher than you assumed, you find out from your statement.

The company is not fully visible. CoinUp Global Limited is named. The issuer is not, and no licences are stated. You are therefore not able to check which regulator stands behind the balance, or whether customer funds are safeguarded in the way that e-money institutions in Europe must safeguard them — segregated accounts or insurance, which are not the same as a bank deposit and may not sit under a deposit guarantee scheme. Visa and Mastercard do not issue crypto cards to consumers themselves; they license issuers and can suspend a programme. Visa said in November 2022 that it had “terminated our global agreements with FTX”, and the FTX US debit card programme was wound down by its issuer. WaveCrest, a Visa card issuer that supplied crypto card brands, was suspended by Visa in Europe in 2018, closing all WaveCrest-issued Visa programmes. Closures follow a pattern: a notice period, then spending and loading stop, then users are asked to withdraw remaining balances. So the structural risk in this category is not that your card number gets stolen — it is that the programme under it ends and you have to move crypto quickly, possibly over a network the support desk is slow to answer.

The complaint record is the real concern. On Trustpilot, the coinup.io exchange listing — the exchange, not the card specifically — reads 2.7 out of 5 from 12 reviews, read on 2026-10-21, with 66% one-star. Twelve reviews is a very small sample and I will not pretend otherwise; a 2.7 from twelve is not a statistical verdict. But the themes are consistent and they are not about a slow refund on a small amount. They are: an unpaid refund after a listing deal and removal from the community channel in September 2026; a broken signed agreement and missed launch dates in August 2026; USDT frozen for eight days with scripted support answers in July 2026; and accounts blocked after profitable trades in July–August 2025. Underneath those sit “frozen funds and blocked accounts” as the recurring complaint.

There are positives in the same window, from February to March 2026: fast KYC and an easy interface. I am repeating these unofficial third-party figures because they are the only complaint data available, not because they are verified — the card itself confirms none of it. What a pattern like this does tell you, though, is what your real exposure is. A frozen exchange account with a card attached means your spending money and your savings are in the same place. That is the thing to plan around, not the cashback rate.

On support: the site lists a Help Center, Contact Us, Feedback, an official Telegram channel in Chinese and International versions, and X channels. The footer shows COINUP LIMITED 20211565064. Reachability is not the same as resolution, and one of the reports above specifically describes scripted answers during a freeze. There is no news page, as such, on the sources I could read — so no reliable way to track announcements like a fee change or a licence change except the channels above.

There is one more structural risk that is easy to overlook with a custodial balance: the private key problem. Whoever holds the credentials controls the crypto, and a seed phrase — typically 12 to 24 words, unencrypted — restores a wallet and spends its funds for anyone who obtains it. Transfers are irreversible, so a stolen key has no built-in recovery. The category has a documented history of custodial failure: Mt. Gox, with about US$350 million reported stolen between 2011 and 2014; Coincheck, about US$400 million in 2018; Ronin Network, US$625 million in 2022. None of that is a prediction about CoinUp. It is the baseline risk of any balance you hold on someone else’s platform, and holding it on an exchange platform concentrates it.

And before you decide any of this counts as earnings: if your balance is crypto, spending it is generally a disposal for tax purposes in many systems, and each payment funded from crypto may be a separate transaction with its own result. That is a matter for a professional in your own jurisdiction, not for a review.

What to take instead

Three alternatives come up in the same category, and the comparison is instructive mainly because of what each one chooses to publish. All three scores below are the ones they carry in this comparison, and the honest summary is that CoinUp is not the weakest on features — it is the least transparent, and transparency is what you are buying when a card converts crypto for you.

Card Score What it states about cost What it states about eligibility
CoinUp 6.1 / 10 No annual or inactivity fees; issuance, conversion, FX, ATM and top-up fees not stated “170+ countries and regions”, but available in “select regions”
Young Card 5.7 / 10 Annual fee, issuance fee and other fees not stated; cashback paid in YNG tokens by Club tier: Essential 0.1%, Gold 1.8%, Platinum 3.6% (Bronze and Silver not stated) Not stated
MSX 6.4 / 10 Not stated Not stated on an official page I could read
Bybit Card 6.0 / 10 Conversion fee 0.9% over the sell rate in several regions, 0.5% in Argentina; FX 2% plus network rate in several markets, 7% Argentina, 1.5% Brazil, 1% Peru; physical issuance 29.99 USD Australia, 5 USD/USDT Argentina, 29.99 USDT Georgia, Kazakhstan and Asia Pacific, none Brazil and Mexico; “Auto interest, no annual fees” Named regions in the help centre, plus an explicit European Economic Area prohibition

Bybit Card is the one to study if disclosure is what you care about, because it publishes the things you would otherwise have to guess at. It names its card regions — Argentina, AIFC (Kazakhstan), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Asia Pacific — and states the rule for people elsewhere: the application asks for country of residence, and if the country is not supported, it “will register your interest”. It also states a hard exclusion, that the product “is not meant for European Economic Area customers. All European Economic Area customer participation is strictly prohibited.” Being told where you are not welcome is unpleasant, but it is usable information; ambiguity is not. It states card currencies per region (USD for AIFC, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Australia and Asia Pacific; ARS, MXN, BRL, and PEN or USD), validity periods of 3 to 6 years depending on market, and network and product type per region — Mastercard in some, Visa in others, credit or prepaid. On funding it is unusually clear that the card has no balance of its own: it draws on the Funding Account and Flexible Easy Earn, fiat first, and if fiat runs short, crypto is sold at the stated sell rate plus the card conversion fee, with a reorderable default priority of USDT, USDC, GRAM, BTC, ETH, XRP. Its rewards structure is also dated and itemised: from 5 October 2026, 10:00 UTC, only crypto-funded transactions earn cashback, with tiers from Base at 2.00% up to Infinite at 10%, each with a monthly cashback cap and a monthly spend threshold. Its restrictions are documented too — no card-specific statement on Russian or Belarusian citizens was found, no citizenship-versus-residence rule, and its fiat restricted list covers deposits, withdrawals and One-Click Buy rather than the card itself.

The trade-offs are real: Bybit’s fees add up to several percent on a foreign-currency purchase, its EEA exclusion is a genuine loss for European readers, and its physical card costs real money in some markets. If your priority is knowing what you pay, you are choosing transparency over a headline rate that has not been disclosed.

MSX scores slightly higher, at 6.4, and on the pages I could read it states almost nothing: not eligibility, not card type, not cost, not funding, not rewards. That is the worst transparency outcome of the three, and it is a good reminder that a score is a summary, not a substitute for reading.

Young Card, at 5.7, does publish one specific thing worth noting: its cashback is paid in YNG tokens at a rate set by Club tier — Essential 0.1%, Gold 1.8%, Platinum 3.6%, with Bronze and Silver not stated. So the headline cashback depends on your tier, and in the lowest stated tier it is a tenth of a percent. Before you value any cashback offer on any card, find out what the lowest tier pays and what coin it arrives in.

There is also the option of not using a crypto card at all, and for a reader whose problem is that ordinary banking is awkward, that is worth pricing in rather than dismissing. A plain card, or a card from an institution with an explicit non-customer policy, gives you the same merchant acceptance with none of the conversion layer and none of the custodian risk. It will not give you crypto cashback. Depending on why you are here, that trade can be a good one.

Who I would recommend it to

I would recommend the CoinUp card to someone who already has a CoinUp account, already holds a balance there, and wants to spend it without the friction of converting to fiat in their own bank first. If that is you — if the card is a convenience layer on top of a relationship you have already decided is worth having — then the shape of the offer is good: five virtual cards, cashback on every purchase, mobile wallets, no annual or inactivity charge, no VIP requirement on the physical card, and a very wide stated reach.

I would tell them to open the app first and find the four numbers the website omits — conversion rate, exchange-rate margin, ATM fee, and issuance fee for the physical card — and to decide only after seeing them. If those numbers are competitive, this is a reasonable everyday card.

I would not recommend it as the first card for someone new to crypto, because the top-up path assumes you already understand coins, networks, and irreversible transfers. I would not recommend it to anyone whose balance is savings, because the complaint record concentrates on frozen funds and blocked accounts, and a card sitting on top of an exchange account means one event stops both your spending and your money.

And I would be cautious about the physical card specifically. The virtual card is the cleaner product: online only, no cash-machine fee to discover, mobile wallets, and limits that are — unhelpfully — unstated but plausibly modest. The physical card adds delivery you will pay for, an ATM fee nobody has published, and a monthly limit stated high enough to be a slogan. If you want this card, the virtual one is where I would start.

If you are outside Europe and reading “170+ countries”, check the app before you plan around it. If you are in the EEA, compare Bybit first, and read its exclusion before you get invested. If you want the fee schedule in writing before you commit to anything, none of these cards will give you that, and that is a reason to keep your balance somewhere else.

Frequently asked questions

What is the CoinUp card?

It is a payment card offered by the CoinUp exchange, funded from your crypto balance on that exchange. There are two versions: a virtual Mastercard, up to 5 per account, created and activated in the app and usable online with Apple Pay and Google Pay; and a physical Visa card, one per account, marked “New”, ordered in the app and delivered to you. Both are topped up with crypto and both earn crypto cashback on purchases.

Does the CoinUp card need KYC?

Yes. CoinUp’s own requirement is an active account with completed KYC identity verification, which the app says takes “in just a few minutes”, plus an eligible region. Expect more than an instant check in practice: verification is not a one-off, because regulated businesses must verify customers and keep monitoring transactions afterwards. What the card pages do not state is whether there are different KYC levels and what each one unlocks.

How much does the CoinUp card cost?

The public pages say there is no annual fee and no inactivity fee, on both the virtual and the physical card, and the physical card has no VIP requirement. Everything else is unstated: the issuance fee for either card, the conversion fee, the foreign-exchange fee, the ATM fee, the minimum top-up, the card currency, and the cashback rate. Find those in the app before your first payment.

How do I top up the CoinUp card?

You transfer crypto from your CoinUp account to the CoinUp card, and the card describes it as ready to use instantly. The coins and networks are not stated, nor are the fees or the minimum. This matters more than it sounds: transfers are typically irreversible, so sending on a network the provider does not support can lose the funds, and some networks charge in a token you may not hold.

Can I use the CoinUp card in my country?

CoinUp states “170+ countries and regions”, but also that the card is “available in select regions. Check the app”. There is no published list of eligible or excluded countries, and no stated rule about citizenship rather than residence. The app is the authority, so check it before funding anything, and treat an unclear answer from support as a no.

Is CoinUp a bank, and who issues the card?

No, it is not a bank. The company behind the service is CoinUp Global Limited, and the card pages do not name the issuer of the physical Visa card and do not list any licences. Visa and Mastercard do not issue crypto cards to consumers themselves; they license issuers. So you would be relying on an unnamed issuing institution, and you cannot check its regulator from these pages.

Is the CoinUp card safe to use?

The card has sensible safeguards: card settings in the CoinUp app, real-time alerts and PIN verification on the physical card, and Apple Pay or Google Pay on the virtual card, which store a device-specific number rather than your card number. The bigger risk is not card fraud but the platform: Trustpilot shows 2.7 out of 5 for the coinup.io exchange across 12 reviews, with recurring reports of frozen funds and blocked accounts.

Is the CoinUp card free?

Free of annual and inactivity fees, yes. But the issuance fee, the conversion fee, the foreign-exchange fee and the ATM fee are all not stated on the public pages, and neither is the minimum top-up. “Free” here means no recurring subscription. It does not mean a payment costs you nothing beyond the exchange rate, which is the number to find.

Does the CoinUp card work with Apple Pay?

Apple Pay and Google Pay are stated for the virtual card, not for the physical one. Adding the card to Apple Wallet replaces the card number with a device-specific number kept on the device, and each payment uses a one-time code. Worth knowing that some merchants decline prepaid or foreign-issued cards, which can look like a payment problem when it is an acceptance one.

Is CoinUp card worth it?

For an existing CoinUp user who mostly wants to spend a balance already held there, the everyday-use features are strong — five virtual cards, cashback on every purchase, mobile wallets, no annual fee. For anyone else, the fee disclosure is too thin to judge and the complaints concentrate on exactly the risk that matters, funds frozen and accounts blocked. Find the fee schedule in the app first, and treat a frozen-account report as a reason to keep savings elsewhere.

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