
Ari Eiberman 🇦🇷 Stablecards
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I’ve unboxed a lot of financial products. Metal cards > Recycled paper > Cardboard boxes > scratch cards… but this time, I’m unwrapping cash. A plastic envelope. USD and ARS bills. Delivered to my front door. I sent USDC. Less than 45 minutes later, this arrived. Delivered. On time. Zero onboarding. No fancy branding. No overhead cost pretending to be “UX”. Laugh if you want, tbh it wasn’t a pretty unboxing experience. But this is the product fintech competes with every single day in LATAM. Who want cash? Who want stablecoin?
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Most fintech founders I've talked to treat card design as an afterthought. I believe it's a mistake. The moment a new card arrives, the weight, the texture, the way it catches the light, it hits differently than any push notification ever will. Half the fintech world calls physical cards "legacy infrastructure." Apple Pay, Google Wallet, tap-to-pay NFC, RTP are taking over. I don't say this. Data does. But that argument misses the point. The card isn't the payment method. It's the brand handshake. It's the touch point a user can transform from just another one to an advocate of your app. What you're communicating when someone holds your card matters more than most founders realize: • A metal card says "you're worth it" • A generic Visa template says "we saved you money" But let's be honest here, some products don't need a card at all, and that's toitally understandable. The brands that get this right treat the card like a stand-alone product launch, not a compliance checkbox or a alternative feature. If you were to decide, what do you want your user to feel when they reach into their wallet? Because they will feel something either way.
Ari Eiberman 🇦🇷 Stablecards11,454 Aufrufe • vor 29 Tagen
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