{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"Sony-Backed Startale Launches a Visa Card: Unveils OFK and Startale Card at WebX 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":715,"description":"\n This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/sony-backed-startale-launches-a-visa-card-unveils-ofk-and-startale-card-at-webx-2026.\nStartale Group launched Startale Card, a self-custodial Visa, and Startale OFK at WebX 2026.\nCheck more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3.\n You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #good-company, #blockchain, #startale, #japan, #rwa, #tokenization, #visa, and more.\nThis story was written by: @ishanpandey. Learn more about this writer by checking @ishanpandey's about page,\n and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nStartale Group launched two products at WebX 2026 in Tokyo on 13th July: Startale OFK, a packaged onchain-finance infrastructure suite for banks and enterprises, and Startale Card, a self-custodial Visa card that spends Soneium assets and pays cashback in USDSC.\n\nThe card's headline pitch, that eligible assets keep earning yield until the moment of payment, is presented as a break from \"conventional crypto cards.\" It is now the category standard. MetaMask, ether.fi and Plasma One all shipped versions of it before this announcement.\n\nSoneium, the chain the card spends against, held $7.94m in DeFi TVL on the morning of the launch, per DefiLlama. Aave V3, the lending venue MetaMask taps for exactly this feature, holds $136,000 on Soneium. The chain earned $71 in fees over the previous 24 hours.\n\nJapan's coming tax reform gives crypto trading gains parity with equities at 20.315%. It leaves staking, lending and DeFi yield taxed as miscellaneous income at up to 55%. That is the bracket the card's yield sits in, if Japan is a launch market. Startale has not said whether it is.\n\nWhat Startale does have, and rivals do not, is Sony and SBI. It co-built JPYSC, Japan's first trust-bank yen stablecoin, which went live on 24th June. That, not the card mechanics, is the real asset.\n\nQ: What is Startale Card? A: A self-custodial Visa...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eO2Jn0gxT_H9qDuuD0uleszE2n40sbZ-1T2r0zOcj9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY4LzE2ODMz/MTU4ODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}