User milestone and payment activity move higher together
Bitget Wallet announced that its global user base has officially surpassed 100 million, while payment volume has overtaken trading volume for the first time on the platform. The company also said issuance of the Bitget Wallet Card has exceeded 150,000, with coverage across more than 50 countries and regions worldwide.
On the payments side, cumulative card spending through Bitget Wallet Card exceeded $33 million in the first half of 2026, representing growth of more than 2x compared with the second half of 2025. The figures point to a notable change in how users interact with crypto wallets, with usage expanding beyond on-chain trading into everyday spending and payments.
Emerging markets drive much of the new growth
According to Bitget Wallet, nearly half of newly added users in emerging markets were using QR-code payment scenarios. In terms of geographic mix, more than half of the platform’s users now come from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, making those regions the company’s core growth engine for both user acquisition and payment adoption.
Bitget Wallet said the growth rate in emerging markets reached 416%. Within that trend, Vietnam’s QR Pay transaction volume increased fourfold over a six-month period. In Nigeria, bank-transfer spending rose by more than 80% over the same period, while the number of payment transactions increased by more than 60%.
Wallet usage shifts from trading toward daily finance
The company said stablecoins are increasingly being used by local users as a dollar-denominated account for saving, receiving payments, and daily spending. Against that backdrop, crypto wallet usage is shifting from a trading-first model toward higher-frequency financial use cases, including QR payments, transfers, settlements, and card-based consumption.
The latest disclosure suggests that for Bitget Wallet, payments are no longer a peripheral feature attached to trading. Instead, they are becoming a primary user behavior in several fast-growing regions, especially where stablecoin-based financial access may serve as an alternative to traditional banking or local currency channels.