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1inch Card review

Self-custodial card spending from a wallet you control, issued via a third-party processor.

Headline cashback
2%
Risk-adjusted rate
0.8%
Custody
Self-custodial
Incidents on record
0

Full fee table

Cashback
Promotional, low single digits
Reward paid in
1INCH (native-token)
FX fee
1.00% — Small spread
Monthly fee
Free
Issuance fee
Free
ATM policy
ATM supported in selected regions
Lock requirement
None
Funding assets
USDC, USDT
Chains
Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum
Regions
EEA, UK and selected markets
Network
Mastercard
Verified
2026-08

How we discount token rewards

We do not take a headline cashback percentage at face value when the reward is paid in a token rather than cash or a stablecoin, because that reward is a variable subsidy the issuer can reprice or that can simply lose value against the dollar. The worked math for 1inch Card:

  1. 1. Headline cashback: 2%
  2. 2. Reward risk class: native-token → haircut multiplier 0.40 (stablecoin/fiat = 1.00, mixed = 0.70, native-token = 0.40)
  3. 3. Risk-adjusted rate = 2% × 0.40 = 0.80%
  4. 4. On $1,000 of monthly spend that is $8.00 of durable value, versus $20.00 of headline value that assumes the token reward never depreciates.

The 0.40 and 0.70 multipliers are deliberately conservative judgement calls, not a market-derived number — treat them as a floor on how much of the headline rate to trust, not a precise forecast.

Incident history and issuer risk

No publicly reported incidents on record as of 2026-08.

The processor, not the DeFi brand, is the operational counterparty — processor failure pauses the card regardless of the wallet model.

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1inch Card, answered

+ Is the 1inch Card headline rate the rate I will actually get?

Only if the reward is paid in stablecoins or fiat. Any reward paid in the issuer's own token is a subsidy that can be repriced or lose value, so the honest number is the risk-adjusted rate, not the headline one.

+ What happens if 1inch Card's issuer runs into trouble?

Read the custody model: a custodial card's balance sits on the issuer's books and is exposed to issuer insolvency; a self-custodial card removes that risk but adds smart-contract and key-recovery risk instead.

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