Slash Card Review 2026

Name: Slash Card
Brand: Visa
Availability: Discontinued

Reviewed by Mihail B. in October 2026 · how we verify

3.0 / 5.0Sweepbase rating

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Closed to new applicants since October 13, 2026. Cards you can still get

CustodyCustodial

NetworkVisa Prepaid

CashbackNone

RegionsJapan

Fees and limits

Issuance fee	Physical 70 USDC (35 USDC during the beta campaign); Virtual 20 USDC
Annual fee	Free for the first year, then 20 USDC a year on either card type
FX fee	Not yet disclosed
ATM limit	Not yet disclosed
Spending limit	Not yet disclosed

Features

Cashback: None. A referral rewards programme is listed as "Coming Soon" on the product page
Custody: Custodial: USDC is topped up from the holder’s own wallet across several networks, but the card balance is then held and managed by the programme
KYC: Yes: invitation email first, then account creation, identity verification and a USDC top-up. The service is for Japan residents aged 18 or over
Card type: Virtual + Physical
Top up with: USDC from a connected wallet, or from an account created in the app with an email address
Full list
- Solana is live and more networks are listed as coming soon
- The card balance itself is denominated in USDC
Available countries: Japan

Who issues the Slash Card

The Slash Card is issued by Orient Corporation (Orico, 株式会社オリエントコーポレーション), Japan (Tokyo; consumer-credit provider registered under the Installment Sales Act). The issuer is named in the source linked below. Joint release of 20 Apr 2026 splits the roles in its own words: オリコ as "BINスポンサー" for international-brand acceptance, 株式会社アイキタス (iQuitous, Tokyo) as "カード発行者" running customer management and systems, and SLASH VISION PTE. LTD. (Singapore) as programme manager and brand owner.

Primary source · All cards issued by Orient Corporation (Orico, 株式会社オリエントコーポレーション) · Why the issuer matters

Pros and cons before it closed

Pros

✓
First stablecoin card cleared under Japan’s Installment Sales Act and anti-money-laundering rules
The fine print
- Spends USDC directly at Visa merchants in Japan and abroad with no manual conversion step
- USDC top-ups from your own wallet (Solana live, more networks listed as coming soon)
- Both a physical card with nationwide delivery and an instantly issued virtual card, and you can hold several of each
- First year carries no annual fee

Cons

✗
Japan residents aged 18+ only
The fine print
- Beta pre-registration has closed and Slash asks anyone wanting the card to wait for an announcement on its official X account, so no new applicant can sign up today
- Marketed as a credit card but the card balance is held in USDC you load first
- No cashback rate published, and referral reward details are still to be announced
- Free first year, then 20 USDC a year
- The card page publishes no FX or ATM fees
Card issuance fee: Physical 70 USDC (35 USDC during the beta campaign)
No IBAN or bank account, prepaid only

Regional availability

Was available in Japan

The Slash Card was available in Japan.

Card overview

Slash Card closed to new applicants when its beta pre-registration, the only way to get the card, ended. Slash's card page asks would-be applicants to wait for an announcement on its official X account before applications reopen, and publishes no closing date; we observed the closure on October 13, 2026. Cards had been issued to pre-registrants since April 20, 2026. It is a Visa card that spends from a pre-charged USDC balance.

The marketing calls it a credit card, Japan's first international-brand crypto one, but there is no revolving credit line: every purchase is deducted from USDC you loaded first. That makes it prepaid in practice, closer to debit than credit. Custody is not yours after top-up: you connect your own wallet to load USDC, but the card balance is then held and managed by the programme. Top-ups are live on Solana at launch, with Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum listed as coming soon.

Fees are readable: physical card 35 USDC during beta (normally 70), virtual card 20 USDC, account opening free, no annual fee the first year then 20 USDC yearly. Eligibility is narrow. Japan residents, 18 and over, full KYC before you can use it. No cashback exists yet.

Referral rewards and member tiers are teased with no rates. Three companies run it, and their own launch release splits the roles: Slash Vision PTE. LTD. in Singapore is programme manager and brand owner, iQuitous Inc. of Tokyo is the card issuer handling customers and systems, and Orient Corporation (Orico) is the BIN sponsor. A search for the name also turns up Slash Financial, Inc. at slash.com, an unrelated US business-banking company whose card is issued by Column N.A.

Until Slash reopens applications there is nothing to order, and the last published eligibility was Japan residents only.

Editor’s note by Mihail B. · Founder & Editor

Written while the card was live Verified against issuer docs

I added Slash when Japan signed off on the first stablecoin-funded card to clear local compliance, and this page sat half-wrong until 31 July 2026, when I went back to the primary announcement. Two corrections matter. The partners were not SoftBank Payment Service and LifeCard: that came from early press. The joint release from iQuitous, Slash Vision and Orico dated 20 April 2026 splits the roles plainly: Slash Vision PTE.
LTD. (Singapore) is programme manager and brand owner, 株式会社アイキタス (iQuitous, Tokyo) is the card issuer handling customer management and systems, and 株式会社オリエントコーポレーション (Orico) is the BIN sponsor. The second correction is a name collision that had contaminated several fields here: Slash Financial, Inc. at slash.com is an entirely different company: US business banking, a Slash Platinum Card issued by Column N.A. to KYB-verified businesses, and a named Rain client. Nothing about it belongs here, and both products being Visa means the network cannot be used to tell them apart.
On the product itself: it is sold as a credit card and Orico is a registered credit provider under the Installment Sales Act, but the spending mechanic is prepaid, you load USDC from your own wallet, the balance is then held in USDC by the programme, and each purchase draws on it while the merchant is paid in yen. Pricing off the live page on 31 July: physical card 70 USDC, discounted to 35 USDC during the beta campaign, virtual card 20 USDC, no annual fee in year one and 20 USDC a year after that on either.
Eligibility is narrow and explicit: Japan residents aged 18 or over, invitation email first, then KYC. Pre-applications opened June 2025, issuance to those pre-registrants started 20 April 2026, and general applications were targeted for around August 2026; on 24 September 2026 the product page still described a beta rolled out to pre-registrants in order, so for most readers this is still a waitlist. No FX or ATM schedule is published anywhere, and the rewards programme is still marked coming soon.

Common questions about the Slash Card

What were the fees for the Slash Card?

The one published charge on the Slash Card was its issuance fee: Physical 70 USDC (35 USDC during the beta campaign). Annual fee: Free for the first year, then 20 USDC a year on either card type. The FX fee was not published.

Is the Slash Card legit, and who is behind it?

The Slash Card is a real card that has been closed to new customers since October 13, 2026. Beta pre-registration, the only way to get the card, has closed. Slash's card page says the beta pre-registration has ended and asks would-be applicants to wait for an announcement on its official X account before applications reopen. No closing date is published; the closure was observed on 13 October 2026.

Is the Slash Card still available?

No. The Slash Card stopped taking applications on October 13, 2026. Beta pre-registration, the only way to get the card, has closed.

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