NearPay Card

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Exigences KYC

Score de la Communauté

4.5/10

Sources

Voir 55 Sources

@CryptoCompare - NearPay Card reviews, guides and fees“The single most analytically useful source in the corpus and the backbone of the fee scoring. Dissects the card economics into modelled spending scenarios showing 1.582% fee erosion for normal use, 2.983% for rare use and 5.337% for international use on a EUR 1,000 load. Documents the EUR 5 issuance fee, EUR 1 monthly maintenance and EUR 2.50 domestic ATM charge that make the card mathematically unviable for small daily purchases.”@GitHub AxLabs/grantshares issue 41 - Add NEO to the NearPay on-ramp widget (Ivan Ilin, COO)“The richest organic developer thread available and the source of the hardest fee numbers. COO Ivan Ilin discloses PSP conversion fees of 3.99% for non-US residents with a punitive $5.00 minimum flat fee, and signals a planned migration to Checkout and Nuvei to bring this down to 2%. Also documents the geographic restrictions: card and widget payments blocked in New York and Texas, ACH and wire blocked across ten further US jurisdictions. Community response praises the transparency while criticising the economics.”@Medium @NearPay - NearPay Evolves: Introducing Munzen“The wind-down notice that terminates the consumer card story. Announces the pivot away from the B2C brand toward Munzen, a crypto payments and on-ramp platform. First-party and understated in tone, it left early adopters without clarity on fund custody or the fate of the physical card rollout, and is the primary reason support responsiveness scores poorly.”@Medium @NearPay - The USN Project Shuts Down: How to Redeem Your Tokens“Documents the systemic trigger for the collapse. Decentral Bank abruptly shut down the NEAR-native USN stablecoin to contain risk, and retail holders were directed to decentralised exchanges such as Spin to swap USN for USDC without KYC friction. Crisis guidance delivered entirely by blog post with no live support channel, which is the clearest evidence behind the support score.”@NEAR governance forum - An update on the NEAR wallet transition“Ecosystem governance thread giving community-side context on the broader NEAR wallet and custody transition that ran alongside the NearPay sunset. Useful for understanding why users were confused about where balances actually sat during the migration period.”@GitHub Kikimora-Labs/nearpay-sdk“The public SDK repository from the Swiss B2C issuer behind the consumer card. Confirms Kikimora Labs as the building entity and shows the on-ramp widget integration surface, but low activity and abandonment corroborate the reported cessation of operations due to a funding shortfall.”@Google Play - Payment Plugin (io.nearpay.softpos), 3.5 stars, ~163 reviews, 50,000+ installs“The flagship merchant-facing SoftPOS app and the only NearPay-branded app with a live review base. Merchants praise turning a standard Android phone into an NFC terminal without dongles, but the 3.5-star average reflects persistent background synchronisation failures requiring manual restarts to process payments. A February 2024 verified review from user Sha won states simply that it is not updating reliably. Note this is merchant acceptance infrastructure, not a consumer spending card.”@Google Play - Payment Plugin, Filipino locale listing“Localised storefront for the same SoftPOS plugin, consulted to check whether complaint themes differ by region. Same dependency-management frustration surfaces: the app acts as a background plugin rather than a standalone POS, which non-technical merchants find confusing when API handshakes fail.”@Google Play - Nearpay Reader“Secondary merchant reader app in the SoftPOS family. Reinforces the multi-app architecture that reviewers cite as a friction point, since merchants must install separate plugin and reader components alongside their primary POS software.”@Google Play - NeoLeap SoftPOS“White-labelled deployment of the NearPay SoftPOS stack for NeoLeap, evidencing genuine enterprise distribution in the Saudi market. Documents the strict hardware policy where rooted devices, unlocked bootloaders and active VPNs trigger immediate lockouts that users often misread as crashes.”@Google Play - Nearpay developer portfolio“Developer account listing confirming the publisher is Tabaod Communications and Information Technology Company and that every NearPay-branded Android app in the store is merchant infrastructure. Directly supports the finding that no consumer wallet or card app remains published.”@Google Play - Nearpay developer portfolio, English locale“English-locale view of the same developer portfolio, cross-checked to confirm the absence of any deprecated consumer wallet listing rather than a locale-specific omission.”@Google Play - NearPay Recharge BillPayment (com.org.nearpoint), Uzbek locale“An unrelated Indian financial services app offering Aadhaar ATM, UPI payments and domestic money transfer that ranks under the NearPay brand name. Documented because it heavily pollutes store search results and misdirects users hunting for a crypto card.”@Google Play - NearPay Recharge BillPayment, Lao locale“Same name-collision app under a different locale, confirming the search pollution is global rather than regional and not an artefact of one storefront.”@Google Play - NearPay Recharge BillPayment, Georgian locale“Further locale variant of the NearPoint collision listing, consulted while establishing how much of the brand search surface belongs to entities unconnected to any crypto card.”@Google Play - NearPay Recharge BillPayment, Kazakh locale“Final locale variant checked for the NearPoint collision. Together these four listings explain why casual store searches for a NearPay card return an Indian bill-payment product instead.”@Medium @NearPay - Introducing the NearPay Wallet and NearPay Virtual Card“The original consumer launch announcement describing a custodial wallet supporting 38 cryptocurrencies with an associated Visa card. The explicit custodial architecture stated here is the direct basis for the custody flag: users hold an account balance on a centralised ledger rather than their own keys.”@NEAR Protocol blog - Introducing NearPay, the first bridge-to-fiat debit card on NEAR“Ecosystem launch post positioning the card as the first fiat bridge in the NEAR ecosystem, targeting UK and EEA users with instant virtual card issuance after registration. Promotional in register and useful mainly as a record of the original claims against which the eventual wind-down should be judged.”@NEAR Protocol pages mirror - Introducing NearPay bridge-to-fiat debit card“Mirrored copy of the NEAR ecosystem launch announcement on the pages subdomain, retained because the two URLs surface independently in search and both were cited in the underlying research.”@NEAR Protocol blog - NEAR in March: Unchain Fund, SailGP and DAOs“Ecosystem roundup recording the early demand signal for the card, with the waitlist surging past 18,000 users in under a week. The clearest evidence that initial community appetite was real before fee friction and the stablecoin collapse eroded it.”@TechBullion - A review of NearPay, the first prepaid crypto card provider in the NEAR ecosystem“Presented as a review but functionally marketing copy, citing roughly EUR or GBP 1 monthly cost, free virtual issuance and card behaviour equivalent to a regular bank card. Flagged because its favourable fee framing conflicts directly with the modelled erosion in the CryptoCompare analysis, and it contains no authentic user experience.”@GlobeNewswire - The 3 Faces of NearPay“Company-issued press release setting out the wallet, virtual card and on-ramp widget as a three-part consumer offering with 38 supported cryptocurrencies. Wire-distributed promotional material with no independent verification, included as the canonical statement of intended scope.”@CoinChapter - The 3 Faces of NearPay“Syndicated pickup of the same three-offerings press release. Its near-verbatim republication across crypto outlets illustrates how thin genuinely independent coverage of this product ever was.”@The Fintech Times - NearPay launches virtual crypto cards and wallet apps for iOS and Android“Trade coverage of the consumer app launch across both mobile platforms, restating the custodial wallet design and multi-asset support. Corroborates that iOS and Android consumer apps did ship, which matters because neither remains available today.”@Financial IT - NearPay launches virtual crypto cards and wallet apps for iOS and Android“Parallel trade-press coverage of the same launch, consulted to check for any independently reported detail beyond the press release. None found, reinforcing the promotional-only character of the historical record.”@Crypto Reporter - NearPay launches virtual crypto cards and wallet apps“Press-release republication in the crypto trade press, explicitly filed under press releases rather than editorial. Included for completeness of the launch-coverage record.”@BTC Times - NearPay launches virtual cards and a wallet for Bitcoin and crypto users“Bitcoin-focused coverage of the launch emphasising multi-asset spending. Notable for framing the card to an audience unlikely to accept custodial key handling, a tension the product never resolved.”@Bitcoinist - NearPay brings virtual crypto cards and a wallet“Further launch pickup in a mainstream crypto outlet. Contributes to the pattern where every consumer-facing article traces back to a single company announcement rather than hands-on testing.”@ChangeNOW blog - Crypto debit and credit cards: all you need to know“Comparative guide placing the card among crypto debit options and confirming the custodial model and EEA and UK availability. Useful for competitive positioning, and its rewards column is where the total absence of cashback against rivals offering up to 8% becomes obvious.”@Trustpilot - Munzen reviews“The closest thing to a live user-review corpus for the successor entity. Sparse and mixed-to-negative, with complaints concentrated on on-ramp delays, stuck orders and unanswered refund requests rather than card usage. Directly informs the support responsiveness score since Munzen inherited the consumer relationship.”@Trustpilot Belgium - Munzen reviews“Regional Trustpilot view of the same successor platform, checked to confirm the negative service pattern is not confined to one market. Complaint themes match: slow processing and poor responsiveness on refunds.”@Traders Union - Munzen review“Independent review of the successor on-ramp platform covering fees and service quality. Provides a second, non-Trustpilot read on the post-pivot entity and supports a cautious rather than damning conclusion.”@ScamAdviser - munzen.io trust assessment“Automated trust-scoring page for the successor domain. Not authoritative on its own, but relevant because users searching for the discontinued NearPay card increasingly land on Munzen and reach for this kind of check.”@Munzen - on-ramp product page“Successor product page showing the pivot outcome: a fiat on-ramp and widget business rather than a consumer spending card. Confirms no card product was carried forward from the NearPay consumer brand.”@The SaaS News - Nearpay closes $14 million in Series A“Funding coverage for the Saudi SoftPOS entity, the commercially successful namesake. Establishes the scale mismatch at the heart of the brand confusion: institutional capital flowed to merchant acceptance infrastructure, not to any consumer card.”@FinTech Global - Saudi fintech innovator Nearpay secures $14m in Series A funding“December 2023 coverage naming Sanabil Investments, a Public Investment Fund subsidiary, as lead alongside Vision Ventures and stc Corporate Investment Fund. Strong validation for the B2B business and irrelevant to consumer card quality, a distinction the two source reports disagreed on.”@WAYA Media - Nearpay closes USD 13.8M Series A led by Sanabil Investments“Regional MENA coverage of the same round, reporting the figure as $13.8M. The minor discrepancy against the widely cited $14M is noted for accuracy.”@Ritzau via ACCESS Newswire - Seraj press release“Newswire item touching the Saudi entity partnership landscape. Peripheral to card evaluation, retained as part of the corporate coverage trail cited in the source research.”@Arageek - Nearpay ventures into U.S. market with contactless payment solutions“Coverage of the SoftPOS provider entering the United States with Tap to Pay capability. Evidence the B2B business is actively expanding while the consumer card remains discontinued, which is the core asymmetry of this listing.”@Reforming Retail - Will tariffs finally bring SoftPOS to market?“Independent industry analysis of SoftPOS economics and adoption barriers, offering a rare non-promotional read on the sector NearPay now operates in. Useful sector context; says nothing about consumer card quality.”@CB Insights - NearPay company profile“Structured company record used to disambiguate the corporate entities sharing the name and to verify funding history and headquarters. Confirms the profile tracked under this name is the Saudi merchant infrastructure business.”@Tracxn - NearPay company profile“Second independent company database consulted to cross-check founding year, sector classification and investor list against the CB Insights record. No material conflicts found.”@Ratex42 - NearPay listing“Aggregator listing carrying basic company particulars. Low evidential weight, included as part of the complete source trail from the underlying research.”@Glassdoor - NearPay employee reviews (2 reviews)“Two employee reviews, positive on flexibility and startup culture. Genuinely user-generated but employee-side rather than customer-side, so it carries no weight on card quality and is retained only as a signal that the operating company is a functioning employer.”@YouTube - NearPay with enterprise system (Snapos integration demo)“Merchant-side demonstration of Tap to Pay running on a standard Android device with no peripheral hardware. Positive engagement from regional merchants and one of the few pieces of hands-on video evidence, though it shows acceptance infrastructure rather than a consumer card.”@YouTube 1inch Network DeFi Visions #24 - Kirill Arutyunov, NearPay“Executive interview from the consumer-era team covering the fiat bridge thesis and DeFi positioning. Thought-leadership framing with no product testing, useful for understanding original intent rather than delivered experience.”@YouTube - AI and crypto industry commentary featuring NearPay executive discussion“Broader industry commentary in which NearPay leadership discusses decentralised finance and regulation. Tangential to card evaluation and included as part of the video trail; notable mainly for what is absent, namely any independent unboxing or daily-use review of the physical card.”@X - @tryNearpay official account“Primary X presence for the SoftPOS business. Timeline is dominated by certification, partnership and market-entry announcements with modest engagement and almost no organic consumer replies. The complete absence of declined-transaction, fee or KYC complaints tied to a spending card is itself the finding: there is no active cardholder base posting about it.”@X - @ArzanVC investor mentions“Investor account surfacing NearPay in portfolio and regional fintech commentary. Corroborates positive institutional sentiment toward the B2B entity and Vision 2030 alignment, with no consumer-side signal.”@Apple App Store - Nearpays (Nigeria virtual dollar cards)“A separate Nigerian fintech whose near-identical name generates persistent confusion in search and app store results. Documented explicitly so this listing is not conflated with an active virtual-card product that has nothing to do with NearPay or the NEAR ecosystem.”@Nearpays blog - Why the Nearpays dollar card is the smartest way to pay online in Nigeria“Marketing content from the unrelated Nigerian issuer. Included solely to evidence the name-collision problem; carries no bearing on NearPay Card sentiment.”@Nearpays blog - Virtual dollar cards: Nearpays vs other fintech solutions“Competitive marketing page from the Nigerian namesake. Retained as part of the collision trail that explains why brand searches return misleading results.”@Nearpays blog - Top questions answered about the Nearpays virtual dollar card“FAQ content from the unrelated Nigerian product, consulted to confirm it is a genuinely distinct offering with its own tiering and limits rather than a rebrand of the NEAR-era card.”@Nearpays blog - Updated tier system for Nearpays accounts“Product update from the Nigerian namesake showing active ongoing development, in contrast to the discontinued NearPay consumer card. Reinforces that the two must not be scored together.”@Nearpays - terms and conditions“Legal terms for the unrelated Nigerian issuer, reviewed to confirm separate corporate identity and jurisdiction. Closes out the name-disambiguation evidence set.”

NearPay Card scores 4.5/10 across 55 community sources, and the headline finding is that the consumer card no longer exists. The brand name covers three unrelated entities: a Saudi B2B SoftPOS infrastructure provider that raised a $14M Series A led by Sanabil Investments, a defunct Swiss B2C crypto Visa card built by Kikimora Labs for the NEAR ecosystem, and a Nigerian virtual-dollar-card app called Nearpays. Only the second was ever a spending card, and it wound down in early 2023 after the NEAR-native USN stablecoin collapsed, migrating accounts to Cryptopay and pivoting to Münzen. Where evidence exists, it is unflattering. The card carried a EUR 5 issuance fee, EUR 1 monthly maintenance, EUR 2.50 domestic ATM withdrawals and fiat-to-crypto PSP conversion running 2 to 3.99% with a $5 minimum floor; modelled fee erosion reached 1.58% for normal use and 5.34% for international use, making small purchases uneconomic. There was no cashback, no staking rewards tied to spending and no perks of any kind, which is why reward utility bottoms out. Onboarding was automated and reasonably quick for UK and EEA residents but aggressively geofenced, rejecting New York and Texas outright and blocking ACH and wire in ten further US jurisdictions. Positives are thin and mostly historical: a waitlist that hit 18,000 users in under a week, 38 supported cryptocurrencies, and genuine praise on GitHub for COO Ivan Ilin communicating openly about fees and roadmap. Privacy protections were standard-regulated rather than exceptional, and support during the USN collapse and brand sunset amounted to asynchronous blog posts telling users to swap USN for USDC on decentralised exchanges, with no live crisis channel. Successor brand Münzen carries sparse but mixed-to-negative Trustpilot feedback centred on on-ramp delays and unanswered refund requests. There is no authentic consumer review corpus for an active NearPay card in 2024 to 2026, and anyone shopping for a crypto debit card should treat this listing as historical.

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