American Express Launching  Crypto Rewards Credit Card

American Express To Offer Their First Crypto Rewards Credit Card in partnership with Abra

This is the first time American Express is launching a credit card that would provide rewards in Crypto currency.

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The Abra Crypto Card was disclosed at the annual Consensus event in Austin, Texas.

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The Abra Crypto Card is said to provide rewards in crypto on all purchases and there will be no minimum transaction amount cryteria.

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Abra offers a platform token, ‘Crypto Perx’ (CPRX), which is expected be one of the options of earning rewards through the card

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The Abra Card will also include all the benefits of AmEx card network as well.

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Since this year, there are about 60 Million AmEx card holders

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