It’s always a good time to talk about money,... especially during #FinancialWellnessMonth. Everyday habits shape our financial wellness. Debit cards are part of daily life, and they can help make money management simpler. Debit cards can help by offering visibility into spending and supporting smarter budgeting. 📊 Track purchases 🗂️ Build a monthly budget 🚦 Set limits 🔔 Use alerts to stay in control Explore tips for building smarter spending habits with a debit card:show more

The PayPal Debit Card lets you spend your PayPal... balance in store anywhere Mastercard is accepted. No monthly fees or credit checks. Request your card:show more

We’re In Trouble 🚨 Implementation of the CBDC's Central... Bank Digital Currency, part of the World Economic Forum plan, is moving forward Head of the Digital Management Director for the IMF says they’re quickly moving towards the CBDC and a digital currency. He slips & says it’s all about control, all about surveillance and with programming they’ll restrict access to your money, your money will expire. “By programming CBDC, those money can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and what kind of use this money can be utilized, for example for food. So this potential programmability can help government agencies to precisely target their support to those people who need support.” The WEF is unelected and they’re about to make our money expire and they’ll be able to restrict what you can and can not purchase 🚨 End The Fed. Ban Lobbying.show more

🌍 Reclaiming Power in Connectivity and Payments We’re joining... forces with Zebec Network to build ZebecNET, a decentralized mobile network powered by World Mobile and designed for the Zebec ecosystem. Together, we’re unlocking private, borderless access to your money - wherever you are. Here’s what’s coming: 💳 Seamless payroll and payments wherever you connect 💰 $WMTX integrated into Zebec Silver & Carbon cards (Apple/Google Pay-ready) 💳 An exclusive World Mobile limitless debit card 🌏 Spend anywhere Mastercard is accepted Learn More:show more

🔐 Non-custodial, explained simply In traditional banking, your money... isn’t really yours. You hand it to a third party — they store it, manage it, and decide when you can use it. That’s the custodial model. Non-custodial flips this around. ✅You stay in full control of your assets. ✅No bank, exchange, or middleman can freeze or move your funds. ✅With your private keys, the power is always in your hands. In Web3 and DeFi, this isn’t just a feature — it’s the foundation of financial freedom. That’s why we built CrossFi on non-custodial rails: so you can store, send, and spend crypto with true sovereignty — protected by on-chain transparency and enterprise-grade security. Because the future of finance isn’t about trusting someone else with your money. It’s about never giving up control in the first place.show more

Revolut is launching AIR (AI by Revolut) in the... UK. "AIR is a sophisticated financial assistant deeply embedded into the Revolut ecosystem. It’s designed to turn complex financial management into a simple, natural conversation. " Money intelligence can: • Instant clarity: "How much did I spend on subscriptions last month?" • Real-time interventions: "Freeze my physical card and order a new one." • Lifestyle companion: "I’m in Tokyo next week. Set up my eSIM and check my insurance." Revolut says that personal data will not be stored by third parties. "AIR is a native part of the Revolut interface, accessible with a single gesture. Just swipe down from your Revolut home screen to meet AIR." Other countries launching soon. #RevolutAIRshow more

Stripe Cards are now officially live on ClawVault If... you're building agents that need to pay for things — APIs, SaaS, cloud, subscriptions, contractors — your agent can now get its own Visa card. Not a restricted virtual card on limited rails. A real Visa, powered by Stripe, accepted at every merchant on the internet. Spending limits. Merchant locks. Expiry controls. And that's just the defaults — the full rules engine goes deeper. Your agent spends freely within the rules — break one, and the charge gets flagged for your approval before it goes through. No other platform gives your agent a card and keeps you in control at the same time. Every AI agent will need a card. Every card will need a control layer. We built both. Now on Stripe. Your agent gets the card. You keep the control.🦞show more

Sorry for the lack of spaces / activity folks... 😞 Unfortunately, my wife has been dealing with some very painful stomach issues. This has required us to go to the emergency room twice now, a GI, other doctors, and a slew of tests. So far they are still not sure what is wrong with her health. The medical costs have piled up once again (seems we have been cursed for the past year), and its getting extremely tough. To pay for all these medical procedures and doctors, we might not be able to make rent this month.. this causes further stress, which just exacerbates the entire thing. I don't like to beg for for help without giving anything back. Instead, if you'd like to help, please consider buying a Crypto Mechas NFT / Card collectible. This way, you can help if you want AND get a Physical Card + NFT for your money. For the next 48H ⏰, all NFTs and cards are 20% OFF on the Crypto Mechas website. You can use the following coupon code at checkout: MOONWIFE20 You can get your cards on the website below, or you can DM me for details. You can also get a Custom NFT + Card with your picture or your pet picture or anything really, if you'd like one. DM me in this case. (Name, address and email required for shipping) I am sorry for coming back to you guys with this again. Last thing I want is to bother any of you with this bull.. It's been a tough year for us 😅 Thank you all so much. #EGCfam is still the best community in Defi, and will always be. I will return to making spaces as soon as possible 🙏 #EGC #evergrowshow more

Your baby needs a little tummy time daily. Yesterday... I wrote about crawling, noting that with sleep recommendations now (wisely) advising infants sleep only on their backs, babies are spending less and less time in a downward facing position - making it all the more important that parents build well supervised tummy time into their daily routines. Tummy time has many benefits. Primary among them, it strengthens the back, neck and arm muscles that help with holding up the head, rolling over, sitting and crawling. It also helps to decrease the incidence of flat spots on the back of your baby’s head. And it can help relieve gas and constipation, just to name a few. You can begin short, supervised periods of tummy time as soon as your child is born. These earliest sessions often begin on mom’s chest - but can be done on other safe surfaces as well. Begin with 2-3 minutes at a time and work your way up. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends increasing the frequency and duration of these sessions to the point your baby spends a total of 20-30 minutes a day by the time your baby is 7 weeks old. Be forewarned that, especially early on, tummy time is a workout (and therefore not always well liked by some children) - but with time and experience will help to develop the muscle strength your newborn lacks. This little one (shared to IG by enjoybabyss) has got tummy time down pat. Check out those strong neck muscles!show more

It’s time to make your #ShowgirlWishList! A new game... has arrived for all app users ❤️‍🔥 Wish List is a game for you to play while listening to The Life of a Showgirl! Note: You shouldn’t check items off OR submit until after you’ve listened! But you can generate your card now. You’ll have one chance to generate a single Wish List card, which will include words from songs in Taylor's catalog. Once you click the 'See My Card' button, that's the only card you’ll get! Each card will have a unique mix of words. As you listen to The Life of a Showgirl, click on a word if you hear it! Once you’ve checked all of the words on your card that are on The Life of a Showgirl, hit 'Submit' to be eligible to win a signed Showgirl CD! You can only submit once, so don't hit the button until you're ready and have listened to the album & verified your words. On Sunday, October 5th at 11:59pm we'll pick a winner from the group of users that had cards with the most words featured on The Life of a Showgirl. Note: If you check off a word that does not appear on Life of a Showgirl, you will be ineligible to win. Have fun, good luck, and share your cards! We’d love to follow along ❤️‍🔥show more

We’re taking decisive action to protect consumers and support... reputable traders. Why? Because too many families are ripped off by home improvement work, or threatened by intimidation tactics if they’ve fallen behind with debt. And because too many businesses are being undercut by rogue operators. From September, a new government supported scheme will help you identify and hire trusted traders with confidence. It will also protect your money during building projects, with payments linked to key project milestones. In addition, we’re announcing tougher regulation to better protect people facing debt in England and Wales. This will help hold bailiffs to consistent professional standards, and give families a new independent complaints process if they are mistreated. We’re supporting businesses that already play by the rules, and making sure families keeping more of their hard-earned cash in their pockets. The latest in our everyday fixes to restore fairness and give families room to breathe.show more

In 2021, an 8-year-old Bryson Kliemann from the US... sold his Pokémon card collection to pay for his sick dog's treatment. Bryson's dog, Bruce, was suffering from a contagious virus and needed immediate treatment. As the family couldn't afford to pay $700 for the treatment, Bryson decided to sell his Pokemon cards by setting up a stand outside his home. In just two days, he raised nearly $400. Moved by his efforts, the mother started the GoFundMe page. Their initial goal was to only make $800. But within a week they raised $19,000. Thanks to the stranger's support, Bruce got the treatment and made a full recovery. The family later donated extra money to help other animals, turning one act of love into a movement of kindness. But the story didn't end here. Bryson's decision to part with his prized possession reached the Pokémon headquarters. Touched by the gesture of the 8-year-old boy, company officials gifted him some rare cards that are expensive and hard to find.show more

Your digital wallet is about to go global. Say... hello to PayPal World. PayPal and Venmo are partnering with some of the world's largest payment systems and digital wallets - starting with Mercado Pago, NPCI International Payments Limited, and Tenpay Global - to make cross-border payments a breeze. Shop virtually anywhere. Accept payments globally. Send money between Venmo and PayPal. This will change everything! Learn more:show more

Let’s deep dive into $ChatX to understand it more... better ⤵️ 📍What is ChatX? ChatX offers a cutting-edge decentralized application (dApp) and Telegram bot, enabling users to capitalize on their Telegram conversations. Access to these chats is facilitated through "access cards," which can be exchanged within the dApp. 💥What makes ChatX stand out? In the crypto community, private chats with various access methods exist, often involving payments like ETH or tokens. Despite some emerging platforms like the question remains: why introduce another platform when Telegram, established since 2013, already provides a range of bots and features for chat moderation, token details, and charting? ◾️ Seamless integration with Telegram. ◾️ Protection against volatility with slippage safeguards. ◾️ Tailor price models to your preferences with full customization. ◾️ Trade and generate income through trading access cards. ◾️ Quick and effortless setup process, completed in just a few clicks! 🌟Features of ChatX; ♦️ Seamless Telegram integration: Visit and follow the steps to incorporate the ChatX portal into your group. Begin earning money today! ♦️ Exchange access cards: Generate income by trading access cards. Purchase them upon release or at a low price and sell them for a profit. ♦️ Slippage Safeguard: Recognizing the significance of slippage protection in trades, as observed in DEXes like Uniswap, they have uniquely incorporated safeguards for both buying and selling, setting them apart from other platforms. ♦️ Telegram Access Card Portal: Register your Telegram channel on their website, add the bot to your group, and you're all set to earn money from everyone joining your chat! ♦️ dApp for Access Card Trading: Experience seamless access card trading through their user-friendly dApp. Create your chat, explore available chats, and easily buy or sell your access cards. ♦️ Profit Sharing: In addition to chat creators receiving a portion of the trading fees, users can also benefit from the platform's adoption by holding the ChatX token. ♦️ Highly Customizable: During the configuration of ChatX for your group, you have the flexibility to select a pricing model that aligns with your preferences 👇 1. Static Pricing: Maintains a consistent price for every access card. 2. Linear Pricing: Features a linear increase in the price of access cards. 3. Quadratic Pricing: Involves a quadratic increase in price, similar to Unlike other platforms, you can also define your own starting price and slope! While this might sound technical, their dApp will effortlessly illustrate how your prices will evolve at the 1st, 10th, 100th, and 1000th invite - making it user-friendly! 🔌The connection between the token and ChatX access cards Ensuring tight linkage between the token and utility is crucial, and at ChatX, team address this by deploying contracts on various chains (Mainnet & Base), establishing a strong connection through discounts and revenue sharing. Tiered Discounts: Introducing three token tiers offering discounts on the protocol fee. As a frequent trader holding ChatX, you can enjoy more cost-effective trades; 🥉Bronze: 5% discount 🥈Silver: 10% discount 🏅Gold: 20% discount Please note, the tiers are not currently active, but the code is integrated into the smart contract and will be released in accordance with roadmap. The discount percentages are subject to change. Profit Sharing: Earn a share of revenue with 1% of each access card transaction (buy or sell) directed towards profit sharing. The higher the number of ChatX tokens you hold, the greater your revenue share! 💰How and where to buy $ChatX? ChatX is deployed on the Ethereum mainnent and can can be tradable on Uniswap: CA: 0x19B53cD4665ed434388a6De9d9eFfC4873C53B78 🌐ChatX Socials; Twitter: Website: Telegram:show more

🩷 Lovers Oracle 💌 these cards tap straight into... the emotional and romantic layer of a situation — not surface level, not what’s being said out loud, but what’s actually being felt underneath it all they’re designed for love, connection, attraction, and the unspoken bond between you and another person we can use these cards to understand how someone truly feels about you, what they desire, what’s blocking them, and where things are naturally unfolding between you this deck is especially strong for situationships, romantic confusion, emotional distance, and deep connections that feel intense but unclear 5 cards (how they feel about you) — $7 10 cards (5 for how they feel about you & 5 for their desires/intentions toward you) — $12 15 cards (10 for their emotions, internal conflicts, and what’s going on in their heart space & 5 for their next steps toward you) — $20 20 cards (5 for their feelings, 5 for their desires, 5 for what’s going on in their love life behind the scenes, 5 for their next actions toward you) — $25 Thread always open unless closed temporarily, in which case comments will be disabled. If you can comment, its open! Comment initials, your persons initials & option you chose Weekday comments: Reply in 48 hrs. Weekends: Reply within 3 days.show more

vPay offshore accounts and physical cards have been getting... field-tested IRL for a while now, and we’ll open them to the public as soon as we’re fully confident in the UX. But before offshore accounts go public, I want to address a few points: Some might point out that - vPay isn’t the first crypto card - vPay doesn’t have the lowest fees - So why choose vPay instead of the Coinbase 🛡️ Card or MetaMask 🦊 Card or KAST or or Tria, or any of the other big names? Now to address: Privacy | The biggest differentiator that sets vPay completely apart is Private Banking. The majority of the crypto card providers on the market use Rain infra. Even if you’ve never heard of them, that's what your favorite "NeoBank" uses. And due to their legal jurisdictions, they will report your finances to authorities since they're CRS and FACTA compliant. We are not. As an OmniBank, we work with different banking partners, and although KYC is required to use our services, our offshore banks are non-CRS and non-FACTA. Tax reporting is the responsibility and choice of the user. Offshore Accounts vs Physical Cards | I've tried to highlight this a few times so far. vPay has 3 offerings on the banking side of things. Virtual cards - live now. Physical cards - coming Q1 2026. The first two are similar to what everyone else on the market offers. The offshore accounts are not. which are coming this week. They allow unlimited spending, ATM withdrawals, and international SWIFT transfers, which very few “Neobanks” provide. Offshore accounts are coming this week. Self-Custody | We're not 100% non-custodial yet, as that is near impossible at the moment but it's something we're working towards. And we try to keep the users' self-custodial wallets in the loop as much as possible for maximum control. Those who have tried the vPay app know that almost every move asks for permission from their wallet, and we always encourage users to keep their funds in their non-custodial wallets until the very last moment, since our top-ups usually only take seconds to a minute to process. Fees | All of the card providers mentioned above either raised millions from VCs or in presales or have a huge org backing them. We have neither. vPay was self-funded and community-owned since day 1, launched under Virtuals Protocol Genesis V1 launch model, an objectively bad launch model and hugely unfavorable toward project teams. So even though vPay has been generating revenue and profitable from early on, we do not have the luxury of offering 0% fees yet, since they're mostly a marketing gimmick paid for by millions in VC money and not a sustainable business model for early-stage companies. What we're working towards instead, is true co-ownership of vPay and revenue-share with users. OmniBank vs NeoBank | I’m not a fan of the term “NeoBank.” It implies just a bank, but make it crypto. That’s not vPay. Our goals have always been clear: A) Anything and everything users need to do with their money and assets, both Web2 and Web3, all in one hub. Powered by a constellation of partner agents. The cards and the bank accounts are just the foundation. B) To eventually build independent financial rails for crypto and decouple from the chokehold of Visa/Mastercard. vLink is the first step toward this vision. This turned out to be a rather long tweet, but context matters. Questions and feedback welcome in replies or DMs. See you all with your vPay vCards very soon.show more

When the government is the economy, your financial suffering... is their fault. Retail interest rates are predicted to skyrocket. Severe pain is incoming as the sluggish economy is about to get winded by a sucker punch. This is all driven by inflation that has almost nothing to do with discretionary spending – illustrated by the increasing din of roller shutters slamming shut for the last time on the high-street. Restaurants, cafes and bars - gone forever. They’re following the exit of long-established family businesses dropping like flies. Iconic clothing brands, manufacturing companies, and construction companies struggling to keep up with the increasing costs and declining consumer spending. Just a more amplified version of households busting to stay afloat, food, electricity, fuel, insurance and housing all running out of reach. People are hurting. The irony is that the only string holding up the false economy is the very thing causing the inflation that is destroying the real economy. Government spending. More specifically – government borrowing. Governments borrow printed money and spend it with the recklessness of a child buying gems to advance in a game on Mum’s iPhone. Using Mum’s credit card, without her knowing. Like the money isn’t real - and to them it isn’t. But it is to the rest of us who have to live in the real world, it really is. It’s just cruel. It’s one thing to borrow and invest in assets that provide returns, but using the credit card to buy skittles and beer normally comes with a hangover at some point. Welcome to the hangover. It’s as if Canberra has a giant black credit card with a tap and go facility. Mark Butler, the minister in charge of the NDIS has probably racked up the most loyalty points with the way he spends. Who knows what he will pick out of the post parliamentary reward points catalogue when he leaves. Next up would surely be Penny Wong, as she runs around the world tapping our credit card and showering other countries with the gifts we pay for, on borrowed money. Funding regimes like the Taliban… Don’t get me wrong, foreign aid has its place – and I think that is exclusively for our various island neighbours, and only when that is in this Nation’s interest. All the rest is just a waste of money, and a betrayal of the Australian people. Albanese and his team are just feckless and reckless, and Chalmers clearly thinks that spending borrowed money is the economy. It isn’t. Because when borrowed money is created, it is created without the interest (nobody ever prints the interest). But the interest always falls due. All our money supply is printed fiat currency. It’s not backed by anything. But if you are one dollar short on an interest bill – your assets can fall into the hands of the lender. Printed money buys real assets, and real assets are lost on foreclosure, as insiders often swoop in for cents in the dollar. It’s like a giant asset laundering scheme. More is always owed than was minted in the first place, because interest must be paid. So, there must be losers – that much is baked into the game - and as more people lose, more people collapse and even more assets are pooled in the hands of fewer people… and there’s the rub – eventually it all falls into the hands of the money printers and their mates. The system must have been designed by an insane clown. The only way out of this mess is to get rid of this government debt and return to sound money. All government debt just inflates assets – and the cost to hold them. Everything else is just a sideshow. They want us fighting over the gender of a toothpick that never ceded ownership of its tutu, so we don’t look at the rapid collapse of everything in real time. It is government debt and waste that is ruining Australia. Almost everything else is a distraction from the fact that there’s no more free money. I just want Australia back.show more

Another BIG WIN in court. Gov. Whitmer and MEDC... just caved and agreed to return the $370 million in Democrat slush funds. They tried to shove all this waste, fraud and abuse into slush funds, and I said no way. Our Budget committee took a stand and BLOCKED it. Then the Democrats tried to sneak it out the door illegally, and I sued them to stop that. Now they finally agreed with my demand. That money is coming back to the state and we can find a much better use for it to protect the taxpayers and give them better value. Thank you to the Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee for having the backbone to take a stand and put a stop to this. Their vote to block the work project designation was valid, and the money will be put into the General Fund just as the statute requires. And just like it always should have been. I predicted this on the day we blocked all this wasteful spending back in December ⬇️show more

Visa just gave your AI a debit card. A... real, spendable Visa card created by an AI chatbot in under 10 seconds. No human types in a card number or visits a checkout page. The machine handles it all. A tool called AgentCard just went live on Claude Desktop Anthropic’s AI assistant. You say create a card and the AI generates a one-time virtual Visa, preloaded with whatever amount you set. Then it spends it, anywhere Visa is accepted on your behalf. Visa, Mastercard, Google, Stripe, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all been building toward this moment for over a year. Visa calls it the trusted agent protocol, Mastercard calls it agent pay. Google published an open standard for agent payments and the infrastructure is already live. Santander and Mastercard just completed Europe’s first real AI‑agent payment in a live banking environment Now the part no one wants to talk about. Your AI agent can be manipulated and prompt injection a known, unsolved vulnerability can trick an agent into buying things you never asked for. The agent holds the card, makes the call and the agent can be fooled. Who is liable when an AI makes a bad purchase? You? Anthropic? Visa? The merchant? No one has answered this yet, regulators haven’t caught up, and no court has tested it.show more

Visa and Mastercard are moving deeper into stablecoin payments.... Banks are testing tokenized settlements. Fintech teams are building the next payment rails in real time. To some this feels like everyone else is already ahead. But the truth is the opposite. These signals show where global finance is heading. Multicurrency accounts, real time settlement, digital dollars as a default payment layer and seamless payments between crypto and fiat. Exactly the direction we have been building toward. In our recent update we highlighted that the 149 billion dollar neobank market is projected to grow to 5.5 trillion dollars by 2033. This transformation has only just begun and the strongest growth is still ahead. The Scallop App is in its final development phase and in closed beta testing with multicurrency fiat accounts, a full crypto wallet and instant crypto to fiat swap functions. Visa debit cards are on the way. We are not late. We are aligned with the market shift that is happening right now. What we are building is not a reaction. It is part of the foundation for the next era of digital banking. The timing is right. The ecosystem is forming. And Scallop is nearing the moment where it steps into the global finance arena.show more