{"id":24489,"date":"2025-06-03T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kazakhstan-launches-cryptocurrency-payment-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:01:27","slug":"kazakhstan-launches-cryptocurrency-payment-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/kazakhstan-launches-cryptocurrency-payment-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan Launches Cryptocurrency Payment Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Kazakhstan has approved the issuance of cryptocurrency payment cards linked to wallets on exchanges licensed by the <span data-descr=\"Astana International Financial Centre\" class=\"old_tooltip\">AIFC<\/span>. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalbank.kz\/ru\/news\/informacionnye-soobshcheniya\/17682\">announced<\/a> by the regulator&#8217;s press service.<\/p>\n<p>During a payment transaction, a client&#8217;s digital assets will be sold on the AIFC crypto market with their value instantly credited to the card.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is a standard payment card linked to the client&#8217;s bank account, meaning that payment will effectively be made using real money after the immediate sale of crypto assets,\u201d explained the National Bank.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The immediacy of settlements will be ensured through the crypto-fiat integration of the bank and the AIFC exchange.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025, Kazakh authorities plan to issue stablecoins pegged to the national currency and digital tenge, tokenize financial assets, and create services for storing, accounting, and exchanging cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Back in late May, the Astana International Exchange, Solana Foundation, liquidity aggregator Jupiter, and licensed trading platform Intebix <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-and-kazakhstans-stock-exchange-to-promote-dual-listing-mechanism-for-enterprises\">signed a memorandum of understanding<\/a> to promote a dual listing mechanism for enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Kazakhstan has approved the issuance of cryptocurrency payment cards linked to wallets on exchanges licensed by the AIFC. This was announced by the regulator&#8217;s press service. During a payment transaction, a client&#8217;s digital assets will be sold on the AIFC crypto market with their value instantly credited to the card. \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1198,153],"class_list":["post-24489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-kazakhstan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"156","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}