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Guides for India: the dollar card, subscriptions, FX, and global spend.

MetaMask Card Not Available in India? Here's What to Use Instead.

MetaMask Card just launched in 51 countries. India isn't one of them — despite being MetaMask's second-largest user base globally. Here's th...

Five cards advertise themselves as free. Four of them require something — an FD, an AMB, a bank account, or a credit check. Here's the hones...

India taxes crypto at 30% plus 1% TDS on every transaction. Every conversion is a taxable event. A USDC card cuts conversions to one — when ...

Your AWS bill, OpenAI subscription, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor add up to ₹13,000+/month — most of it taxed at 3.5% forex. That's ₹5,808/year...

Indian banks block OpenAI charges as suspicious. Even when they don't, the 3.5% forex markup adds up. Here's the workaround that actually wo...

Indians keep asking 'Niyo or Plu?' as if it's either-or. It's not. Niyo wins for travel and lounges; Plu wins for stablecoins and developer ...