Bitget Wallet's shift from trading to payments shows why it's becoming the top crypto wallet for everyday finance, not just a vehicle for investment

San Salvador, El Salvador (PRUnderground) July 15th, 2026

Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet for everyday finance,announced it has surpassed 100 million users globally, and that for the first time in the platform’s history, daily payment users now outnumber traders. More than half of those users are based in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, where people are increasingly using this top crypto wallet as a global stablecoin account to save, get paid, and spend locally, rather than to trade.

That shift shows up in the data. Bitget Wallet Cards issued have surpassed 150,000 worldwide, available across 50+ markets and spendable at 150M+ merchants. Global card spending reached $31M in the first half of 2026, a 191% increase from H2 2025. In emerging markets specifically, card spend grew by 416% in the same period, showing that financial habits are forming faster in these regions than the global average. Globally, card users averaged 10 payments per month at an average transaction size of $28, consistent with everyday purchases at a frequency that reflects payment as routine. Active cardholders in the US, Europe, and Asia average between 10 and 14 swipes a month — on par with how often consumers use a debit card — while emerging markets like LatAm are catching up fast from a lower base.

The conditions driving it are structural, and specific. In Nigeria, the official naira lost over 40% of its value against the dollar in 2024; in Argentina, the peso lost a comparable share. Conventional remittance corridors into these markets still charge 5–8% per transfer on average. At the same time, both countries are among Bitget Wallet’s fastest-growing markets — a direct connection between local currency instability and demand for a stable, low-cost, borderless account, and a key reason more users are turning to a top crypto wallet over traditional banking rails. In Southeast Asia and South Asia, the platform’s two largest user regions, mobile-first payment infrastructure already exists; Bitget Wallet’s payment rails plug into habits that are already formed.

“The next wave of users in these markets doesn’t think of this as crypto,” said Alvin Kan, COO of Bitget Wallet. “They have a balance in dollars, they spend it, they get paid into it, and they move it across borders. The account just happens to be onchain. What the data is showing us is that this is becoming routine, and what starts as routine in these markets tends to define what global finance looks like next.” In a COO letter published, Kan reflects on the turning points that shaped the platform, and what it took to build the top crypto wallet for a new generation of users, over the past eight years.

Eight years ago, Bitget Wallet launched as a trading tool for crypto natives. In the last two years, the product was substantially rebuilt around a different use case: the infrastructure that today spans card issuance across 50+ markets didn’t exist at the last major milestone. The Onchain Payments Matrix, the settlement infrastructure behind these flows, now spans 80+ payment rails across 100+ currencies and has settled more than $177 billion in stablecoin volume — reinforcing Bitget Wallet’s position as the top crypto wallet for onchain payments at scale.

More insights and the full data report can be found on the Bitget Wallet blog.

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