MetaMask Card has expanded across Latin America, opening access in 13 additional countries and giving more users a way to spend crypto directly from a self-custodial wallet. The card works an
MetaMask Card has expanded across Latin America, opening access in 13 additional countries and giving more users a way to spend crypto directly from a self-custodial wallet.
The card works anywhere Mastercard is accepted, connecting MetaMask balances to real-world payments without forcing users to move funds to a centralized exchange first. Crypto stays inside the user’s wallet until checkout, then converts into local currency at the point of purchase.
The expansion turns MetaMask Card into a broader payments product for a region where crypto already plays a major role in savings, remittances and dollar-linked spending. Latin America recorded nearly $1.5 trillion in crypto transaction volume between July 2022 and June 2025, with stablecoins remaining a major tool for users dealing with inflation, currency volatility and cross-border payment needs.
MetaMask Card is built around a different model from most exchange-linked crypto cards. Instead of preloading funds into a custodial account, users designate supported tokens in MetaMask, set spending limits and keep control of their assets until the transaction is made.
The current MetaMask Card setup supports spending through Linea, Solana, Monad and Base. Supported assets include mUSD, amUSD, wETH, EURe, GBPe, USDC, aUSDC, aBasUSDC and USDT, giving users several stablecoin and token options for everyday payments.
That matters for Latin American users because the strongest real-world crypto demand in the region is often practical, not speculative. Stablecoins can act as a dollar-linked balance, while card rails make that balance spendable at normal merchants. The card does not remove crypto price risk or tax obligations, but it does reduce the gap between holding assets onchain and using them in daily commerce.
The Mastercard layer gives MetaMask Card instant merchant reach. The card can be used at more than 150 million Mastercard merchant locations worldwide, including online, in-store and mobile-wallet payments.
MetaMask’s card infrastructure has been expanding quickly since its earlier U.S. rollout, when the MetaMask crypto debit Mastercard launched across the United States. The Latin America expansion now adds another major region to the same self-custody spending push.
Mastercard has also been moving deeper into crypto payment infrastructure through other partnerships. Its work with Chainlink brought onchain crypto buying to 3.5 billion cards, while its New York BitLicense strengthened its stablecoin payment infrastructure strategy.
MetaMask’s card expansion fits a broader shift in wallet design. Wallets are no longer only places to store tokens and sign DeFi transactions. They are becoming financial front ends for swaps, payments, rewards, lending, perps, prediction markets and AI-driven activity.
That shift has already appeared in MetaMask’s wider product roadmap, including its recent Agent Wallet early-access launch. The card adds the consumer-payment layer to that strategy, moving MetaMask closer to a full everyday finance app while keeping self-custody at the center.
For Latin America, the expansion gives users another route between onchain balances and normal spending. The main test will be whether fees, supported tokens, compliance checks, merchant acceptance and mobile-wallet access make the experience simple enough for daily use. If it works smoothly, MetaMask Card could become one of the clearest examples of self-custody moving from crypto-native activity into mainstream payments.
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