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Digital-payments provider Wirex has expanded its relationship with Crossmint Inc., a stablecoin and wallet-technology provider, to connect Wirex’s card-issuance platform directly with Crossmint’s smart wallet and stablecoin-orchestration platform.
The expanded relationship will make it easier for consumers to spend stablecoins directly from their digital wallets by streamlining fintechs’ cumbersome process of establishing separate relationships with wallet providers and card issuers, and by creating a compliance framework to enable stablecoins to be spent from a digital wallet, Wirex says.
Crossmint will handle the wallet and stablecoin orchestration, which includes creating and managing smart wallets, abstracting blockchain complexity, orchestrating cross-chain stablecoin flows, and processing on-chain transactions. Wirex will handle the regulated financial-services layer, which includes card issuance, bank accounts, and payment rails.
Previously, Wirex partnered with Crossmint to access its smart wallet and stablecoin-orchestration infrastructure.
“The gap between holding stablecoins and spending them has always been an integration problem,” Crossmint’s co-founder, Rodri Fernández Touza, says in a statement. “You needed a wallet provider, a card issuer, and a compliance framework, all connected. This closes it. Fintechs get one stack, and their users get a Wirex debit card funded directly from their Crossmint wallet. Stablecoins become spendable, not just holdable.”
Stablecoin-backed cards have become one of the fastest-growing segments in digital payments, growing 106% annually since 2023 and totaling $18 billion in 2025, according to Artemis Big Fundamentals, a data platform for digital finance.
Wirex’s expanded partnership with Crossmint will also provide fintechs with a foundation to provide additional neobank experiences and enable AI agents to hold, move, and spend stablecoin balances on behalf of the holder, Wirex adds.
“This is what it looks like when two pieces of infrastructure are built to fit together,” Daniel Rowlands, general manager, onchain finance, for Wirex says in a statement. “Fintechs can now give their users a Wirex debit card funded directly from a Crossmint wallet, and as they grow, the full [backend-as-a-service] stack is there when they need it.”
