Card to the Future

What’s new

v0.10.0 · Nov-05, 2026

The Big Table

  • A new page in the sidebar puts all 36 cards and every parameter in one table, from cashback and FX to chains, licences and app ratings.
  • Click any column title to sort or filter it. Drag a title to move the column, drag its edge to resize, and choose what you see under Columns. Your layout stays the way you left it.
  • Hover a value for the link to its source. A dotted orange underline means the issuer has not confirmed that number.
v0.9.0 · Nov-05, 2026

Compare, three cards at a glance

  • Compare now opens with the top 3 cards already side by side. Pick any card from the dropdown above each column, and its picture, plans and yearly money sit right below.
  • Every fee and limit lines up in three clean columns, and the dropdowns stay in view as you scroll. On a phone you compare two.
v0.8.0 · Nov-05, 2026

A real address

  • The site now lives at cardtothefuture.com. Old links keep working and take you to the same page here.
v0.7.1 · Nov-05, 2026

Cleaner notes

  • Some notes on card pages used research shorthand you could not check. They now say plainly what is confirmed and what is not.
v0.7.0 · Nov-05, 2026

36 cards, and the first 6 rechecked

  • The table grows from 11 to 36 cards, among them Revolut, Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, MetaMask, Phantom and Avici.
  • Six cards are marked Closed, Closing or Paused and sit at the bottom, each saying why: Cypher, Holyheld and Ready are gone, Gnosis Pay and VaultLeap are closing, and Solflare is paused.
  • RedotPay, KAST, ether.fi, Wirex One, Plasma One and Crypto.com were rechecked. KAST and ether.fi now count the FX people actually paid: about 1.84% and 2.04%. Wirex One’s trust score dropped after a card outage and stuck bank transfers in recent weeks.
  • Token prices behind every staking cost are updated to Nov-05, 2026.
v0.6.0 · Nov-05, 2026

Five more cards, and what they really charge

  • Kolo, Tria, COCA, Karta Personal and Gnosis Pay join the table, so you now compare 11 cards. Each number was rechecked against the issuer’s own pages.
  • Card pages get a Real payments section: what someone actually paid, next to what the issuer advertises. Tria advertises 0% FX; Paymentscan measured about 1.5%.
  • Cards you cannot rely on getting now rank last and say why. Gnosis Pay is marked Closing, because its card stops on Dec-20, 2026.
  • The sidebar has a search box, and pages like Chains list the logos of the cards that match, so they stay readable as the list grows.
v0.5.0 · Nov-02, 2026

Every parameter gets its own page

  • Click any label on a card page, say FX fee or Blocked merchants, and you get a table of all 6 cards on that one thing, with a source for each value. That is 110 parameter pages, 120 pages for single values such as PIX or BTC, and 115 country pages.
  • Hover a merchant code like 7995 and it tells you what it means: betting, casinos and gambling. Click it to see which cards limit it. ether.fi is the only card of the 6 that publishes codes.
  • Card pages are now one column, with plans side by side in a single table instead of two stacks and a switch. App Store, Google Play and Trustpilot carry their logos; countries, currencies and languages carry round flags; support is one channel per line.
  • Personal accounts only. ether.fi’s Business plan and the business-card row are gone.
  • Built for search and AI assistants from here on: every page has its own title, description and structured data, a sitemap lists them all, and llms.txt and a JSON file hand the whole database to any assistant that wants to cite it.
v0.4.0 · Oct-26, 2026

Every card, as it looks

  • Each card page now shows the card itself, and the picture changes with the plan you pick: all five Crypto.com plans, KAST Standard, Premium and the gold Private, and the red RedotPay card, each from the issuer’s own site and credited underneath.
  • ether.fi, Plasma One and Wirex One publish no clean card picture that can be taken, so theirs are drawn in the plan’s colour, purple metal for ether.fi Luxe and gold for VIP, and say plainly that they are illustrations.
  • Plans, fees, cashback and limits must now come from the issuer. Nine figures that rested only on another comparison site, eight Wirex One ATM numbers and RedotPay’s Standard cashback, are marked “Not confirmed by the issuer” until Wirex or RedotPay say so themselves.
v0.3.1 · Oct-26, 2026

Fits a phone again

  • On a phone the table ran off the right edge and cut the yearly dollars in half. It now shows just the card, what you keep and the score, all on screen; the rest is one tap away on the card page.
v0.3.0 · Oct-26, 2026

The table, first

  • The site opens on the table itself: no banner, no pitch, just the six cards and what each one leaves you a year, with your spend right above it.
  • The menu moves to a sidebar on the left, and every card sits one click away underneath it.
  • What’s new lives here, at the bottom of that sidebar, next to the version you are looking at.
v0.2.0 · Oct-26, 2026

Filters where the columns are

  • Click any column title to sort or filter it. Network, Custody, Available in and Trust take a checklist; You keep, Data and Score take an “At least”. A Filtered by bar shows each filter with its ✕ and how many of the 6 cards remain.
  • Visa and Mastercard appear as their logos, and custody as a badge: a green key for self-custody, a grey bank for custodial, an orange mark for hybrid.
  • Numbers carry thousands separators everywhere, from the $1,000 spend box to “20,000 XPL” in the fine print.
  • The grey frame around the card logos is gone.
v0.1.1 · Oct-25, 2026

Phones see what they keep

  • On a phone the list showed the score but hid the yearly dollars, the one number that matters. It shows them now, and the menu stays on one line.
  • Compare columns hold a steady width, so one long note no longer stretches a card across the screen.
v0.1.0 · Oct-25, 2026

Six cards, every number sourced

  • RedotPay, KAST, ether.fi, Plasma One, Wirex One and Crypto.com, with 1,135 facts behind them and a link to the source of each: 279 pages of fee tables, terms, app stores and reviews.
  • Every card is ranked by the dollars you keep in a year after fees, FX and the cost of any money you must lock. At $1,000 a month ether.fi’s free Core plan keeps $144; RedotPay’s Pro plan costs $62 more than it pays back.
  • Rewards paid in a card’s own token count at half their face value, so an 8% headline in a volatile token cannot outrank 1% in dollars.
  • Compare puts up to five cards side by side, with a plan picker on each and a link you can share.