Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) aren’t really easy to spend in day-to-day life, mainly because retailers prefer to stay away from crypto’s volatility. In order to build a bridge between traditional finance and emergent assets like Bitcoin, a Swiss crypto startup called Eidoo has introduced a new Visa crypto debit card that uses regulated stablecoins for crypto-to-fiat conversion.

The so-called Eidoo Card has been approved for operation by payment giant Visa. Announcing the news on May 25, Eidoo told Cointelegraph that its new card will enable 40 million Visa merchants to accept crypto-derived fiat currencies, including the British pound (GBP) and euro (EUR).

Eidoo CEO Thomas Bertani said that this latest approval by Visa is part of Eidoo’s partnership with Contis, a principal member of Visa Europe and a holder of a U,K. e-money license. Bertani said Visa has approved the entire flow of Contis-led card issuance as well as crypto-to-fiat conversion involving regulated stablecoins issued by Moneyfold, a U.K.-based financial services firm focused on fiat-pegged stablecoins.

This means Contis acts as the issuer of the Eidoo Card, similar to how other crypto cards like Monolith operate. In the meantime, Moneyfold’s Ethereum-based stablecoins, Moneyfold Euro and Moneyfold GBP, are planned to unlock a higher degree of decentralization and transparency in the process of converting between crypto and fiat.

Bertani explained the process:

“People have a given crypto token, they sell it for the stablecoin via DeFi DEXes like Uniswap. Then the regulated stablecoin obtained from there is topped up with a 1:1 exchange rate (1 Moneyfold EUR = 1 EUR) on the crypto card when the payment occurs.”

Nikola Tchouparov, co-founder and CEO at Moneyfold, emphasized the unique stablecoin-based nature of Eidoo's crypto debit card. “It will be the first time the backend of a crypto card is done via stablecoins and DEXes,” Tchouparov said.

In order to preorder an Eidoo Card, users need to stake or burn Eidoo’s native EDO token. Depending on the plan, an Eidoo Card requires that the user to burn 100 EDO tokens or stake 25,000. As of press time, EDO is trading at $0.26 according to data from Coin360. Bertani says that users have already pre-ordered more than 2,700 cards, with more than 3 million EDO tokens staked to date.

像比特币（BTC）这样的加密货币在日常生活中并不容易使用，主要是因为零售商更愿意远离加密货币的波动性。为了在传统金融和比特币等新兴资产之间架起桥梁，一家名为Eidoo的瑞士加密初创公司推出了一种新的Visa加密借记卡，它使用受监管的稳定币完成加密货币到法币的兑换。

所谓的Eidoo卡已经获得支付巨头Visa的批准发行。 Eidoo在5月25日宣布这一消息时，告诉Cointelegraph，其新卡将使4000万Visa商户接受由加密货币兑换而来的法定货币，包括英镑（GBP）和欧元（EUR）。

Eidoo首席执行官托马斯·贝塔尼（Thomas Bertani）表示，Visa的最新批准是Eidoo与Contis合作的一部分，Contis是Visa欧洲的主要成员，持有英国的电子货币牌照。贝塔尼表示，Visa已经批准了由Contis主导的借记卡发行的全部流程以及Moneyfold使用受监管的稳定币完成加密货币到法币的兑换，Moneyfold是一家总部位于英国的金融服务公司，专注于与法币挂钩的稳定币。

这意味着Contis充当Eidoo卡的发行者，类似于Monoolith等其他加密卡的操作方式。同时，Moneyfold基于以太坊的稳定币，Moneyfold 欧元和Moneyfold 英镑计划在加密货币和法币之间的兑换过程中实现更高程度的去中心化和透明度。

贝塔尼解释了这个过程：

“人们把拥有的给定的加密货币，通过像Uniswap这样的DeFi DEX兑换成稳定币。然后，当发生支付时，从那里获得的受监管的稳定币将在加密卡上以1：1汇率（1 Moneyfold 欧元= 1 欧元）充值。”

Moneyfold的联合创始人兼首席执行官尼古拉•卓帕洛夫（Nikola Tchouparov）强调了Eidoo加密借记卡基于稳定币的独特性质。 卓帕洛夫表示：“这将是第一次通过稳定币和DEX完成加密卡的后端。”

为了预订Eidoo卡，用户需要抵押或销毁Eidoo的原生EDO通证。根据计划，Eidoo卡要求用户销毁100个EDO或抵押25,000个EDO。根据Coin360的数据，截至发稿时，EDO的交易价格为0.26美元。贝塔尼表示，用户已经预订了2700多张卡，迄今为止已抵押了超过300万个EDO。