Mastercard Awards Bybit Card at EDGE 2025 Forum
Bybit's Bybit Card was honored by Mastercard as the Best Performing Crypto Card at the EDGE 2025 event. Mastercard hosted the fourth edition of its EDGE forum, which aims to shape the future of payments across the EEMEA region. The event gathered senior global executives from various industries to discuss emerging opportunities in payments, digital infrastructure, and consumer trends. EDGE 2025 explored how innovations such as agentic AI, embedded finance, stablecoins, and tokenization have transformed global commerce and accelerated fintech evolution.
Key Features and User Benefits of the Bybit Card
The Bybit Card offers a range of key features designed for user convenience and a rewarding experience. Since its launch in 2024, the Bybit Card has accumulated over two million cardholders globally. The payments platform seamlessly integrates digital assets and provides users with the ability to convert and spend their virtual assets at millions of merchants worldwide within the Mastercard network. This is enabled through exclusive partnerships across utility and culture, alongside innovative solutions.
Sophie Chen, Head of Marketing at Bybit Card and Pay, highlighted the platform's role in demonstrating the potential of digital assets in a connected world. She stated, "We are honored to receive this award from Mastercard, a global leader in financial innovation and a trusted partner in payment technology. The recognition validates Bybit’s vision to make crypto freedom a reality and digital assets more accessible for everyday users."
Chen also emphasized Bybit's commitment to ensuring crypto users have a payment experience as seamless and secure as traditional cardholders. The Bybit Card offers instant conversion of digital assets, competitive rates, and unique user benefits for cryptocurrency holders spending their crypto in real-world scenarios. The card is accepted at millions of Mastercard merchants globally.
Key features of the Bybit Card include seamless convenience in fiat-to-crypto spending and cash withdrawals from supported ATMs worldwide. The physical Bybit Card is available to Mastercard holders.
The Bybit Card incurs no annual fees and offers up to 8% APR on digital asset balances. Users can also benefit from 100% rebates on subscriptions to services like Netflix, Spotify, and selected AI tools, along with airport lounge access and other seasonally refreshed benefits. The Bybit Card supports transactions in BTB, ETH, XRP, TON, USDT, USDC, MNT, and BNB, with cashback options available in USDC, USDT, BTC, and AVAX.
We’re honored to be recognized by @Mastercard as the Best Performing Crypto Card at EDGE 2025, the flagship forum shaping the future of payments across EEMEA. 💳
— Bybit (@Bybit_Official) October 16, 2025
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Bybit Card Expansion into Europe
Mastercard's EDGE 2025 forum also emphasized the necessity of accelerating next-generation payment technologies across the EEMEA region. The company noted that nearly 50% of all online transactions in Europe are now tokenized, with a target to achieve 100% tokenization by 2030.
In September, Bybit expanded its presence in Europe by launching the Bybit Card across the European Economic Area (EEA). Mazurka Zeng, CEO of Bybit EU, stated that this launch was facilitated by increased regulatory clarity, growing institutional demand, and grassroots adoption. The Bybit Card is not available in Croatia, Ireland, Romania, or Norway.