Crypto payment cards processed $607M onchain in March 2026, up 224% YoY. Cumulative volume reached ~$6.5B with 21.4M transactions across 17 chains.
> Monthly volume crossed $100M in Sep 2024, then $600M in Mar 2026, a 6x increase in 18 months.
> The card landscape diversified in 2025. In Jan 2025, RedotPay handled 88% of all volume. By Mar 2026, new entrants (ether.fi, KAST, Karta, Tria ) captured 26% combined. EtherFi currently holds #2 with $62.6M, narrowly ahead of KAST at $60.1M.
> All of this runs on traditional rails. Mastercard dominated early crypto card volume, but Visa moved aggressively into the space and now handles $581.8M of the $600M total, capturing 97% market share.
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