2025 at Ready

In 2025, Ready scaled card spend, staking, BTCFi, and banking features, becoming the onchain alternative to your bank.

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Ollie Armitage

Feb 14, 2025

Quick summary

In 2025, Ready became the onchain alternative to your bank. From hitting $20M in card spend and becoming the largest Bitcoin staking validator, to launching bank deposits, BTC-backed loans, and a full mobile wallet.

This is how Ready scaled from crypto product to crypto neobank.

Ready Card:

  • Hit $20M total card spend, across 120+ countries.
  • Paid $750,000+ in cashback, and grew Ready Metal from 0 to 5,000+ members.
  • Launched Ready Lite (our free card) and Google Pay (Apple Pay is coming soon).

Staking:

  • Became the largest Bitcoin staking validator, with 1,280 BTC ($117M).
  • Broadened our lead as the top STRK staking validator with 150M STRK ($13.5M).

Bitcoin (BTCFi):

  • Shipped Bitcoin-backed loans with @vesuxyz, allowing anyone to borrow against their Bitcoin and spend USDC with the Ready Card.

Ready Wallet:

  • Released a dedicated mobile app for Ready Wallet.
  • Launched Perps with @extendedapp, giving traders a simple and mobile-first experience.
  • Cemented our position as the no.1 wallet on Starknet with over 2M downloads.

Neobank features:

  • Launched bank deposits with @due_network, allowing 150+ countries to send from their bank account to Ready in 5 major currencies.
  • Shipped easy bridging with @layerswap, making it easy to send from any wallet, exchange, or blockchain to Ready.
  • Removed transaction fees, we now pay all transaction fees on Ready for you.

Rebrand:

  • Rebranded from Argent to Ready.
  • Became a leading name in the “crypto neobank” narrative.

2025 was the year Ready became the onchain alternative to your bank.

In 2026, we’re scaling to millions of people worldwide.

Are you Ready?