Plasma One
Stablecoin-first neobank card built around the Plasma chain's zero-fee USDT transfers.
4.0% risk-adjusted · Custodial
Coinbase Card review
Debit card drawing on a Coinbase balance, cleanest when funded in USDC.
Headline cashback
4%
Risk-adjusted rate
2.8%
Custody
Custodial
Incidents on record
0
Full fee table
- Cashback
- Up to 4% back on the highest tier, lower tiers 1–2%
- Reward paid in
- USDC or selected crypto (mixed)
- FX fee
- 0.00% — Card network rate; spending non-USDC assets incurs a liquidation fee (~2.49%)
- Monthly fee
- Free
- Issuance fee
- Free
- ATM policy
- ATM withdrawals supported, operator fees apply
- Lock requirement
- None
- Funding assets
- USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH
- Chains
- Base, Ethereum, Solana
- Regions
- United States
- Network
- Visa
- 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 Coinbase Card:
- 1. Headline cashback: 4%
- 2. Reward risk class: mixed → haircut multiplier 0.70 (stablecoin/fiat = 1.00, mixed = 0.70, native-token = 0.40)
- 3. Risk-adjusted rate = 4% × 0.70 = 2.80%
- 4. On $1,000 of monthly spend that is $28.00 of durable value, versus $40.00 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.
Large US-listed issuer with public financials. Balance is custodial, so card funds sit on Coinbase's balance sheet, not in your wallet.
Alternatives
Binance Card
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Coinbase Card, answered
+ − Is the Coinbase 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 Coinbase 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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