Cards are back. You can once again top up your SocialBooster balance with Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, or Google Pay, powered by our new payment partner, NexaPay.
If you have been with us a while, you know we made a deliberate choice a few weeks ago to go crypto-first and drop card payments entirely. That was not a whim. It was the single most effective thing we could do to cut fraud. So bringing cards back deserves an honest explanation, because we did not undo that decision. We built on top of it.
Why We Dropped Cards In The First Place
The short version: stolen-card fraud and chargebacks are the most expensive problem a platform like ours faces.
The pattern is old and simple. Someone uses a stolen card, buys services that get delivered instantly, and weeks later the real cardholder disputes the charge. The platform loses the delivered service, loses the money to the chargeback, and pays a dispute fee on top. That cost does not stay with us. It gets baked into prices and drags honest customers into heavier verification.
We wrote about the whole decision in detail in going crypto-first to reduce fraud. Going crypto-first closed that vector at the root, because crypto payments are final. No dispute button, no clawback, no chargeback fee.
It worked. But it came with a real cost of its own: a lot of you simply prefer paying by card, and asking every customer to hold crypto was friction we never loved.
What Is Different This Time
NexaPay lets us have both. Here is the key detail that makes it work.
You pay by card. We get settled in crypto. When you check out through NexaPay, you enter your card as normal. Behind the scenes, NexaPay converts that payment and settles it to us in cryptocurrency. We never take a raw, reversible card charge onto our own books.
That is the whole trick. The convenience of a card sits on the customer side, and the finality of crypto sits on ours. The fraud vector that forced us off cards in the first place stays closed, because what actually lands with SocialBooster is settled crypto, not a chargeable card transaction.
So this is not a step backward from crypto-first. It is crypto-first with a friendlier front door.
What This Means For You
For most customers, this is simply a better checkout.
Pay how you want. Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay are all supported. No wallet, no coins, no crypto knowledge required.
Your balance still works exactly the same. You are topping up the same prepaid balance in dollars, with the same deposit bonuses on larger amounts. Card is just another way to fund it.
It is fast. You complete payment on NexaPay's secure hosted checkout and your balance updates once the payment confirms. Then you order as usual.
Your details stay private. Card entry happens on the encrypted NexaPay checkout. We never see or store your card number.
One practical note: card payments carry a small minimum, so they suit deposits of roughly $25 and up. Smaller top-ups can still use crypto, which has no such floor. If you pick an amount that is below the card minimum, the checkout will simply nudge you to the nearest amount that qualifies.
Still Crypto-First Under The Hood
We want to be clear about this, because it matters. Adding cards does not change our stance on fraud. Crypto is still what settles to the platform, cards are a convenience layer on top, and crypto payments remain available directly for anyone who prefers them.
If anything, this setup is the version of the plan we always wanted. Honest customers get the payment method they actually asked for, and the economics that protect everyone stay intact.
How To Pay By Card
It is already live. Head to your dashboard, choose Add Funds, pick an amount, and select the card option at the payment step. You will be handed off to NexaPay's checkout to finish, and your balance updates from there.
A quick thank you to the NexaPay team for building a gateway that fit our fraud model instead of forcing us to compromise on it. It is rare to find a card processor that lets you keep crypto-grade settlement, and they nailed it.
The Bottom Line
Card payments are back on SocialBooster, powered by NexaPay, and they arrived without undoing the fraud protections that going crypto-first gave us. You pay by card, we settle in crypto, and the chargeback problem that started this whole journey stays solved.
Go top up however suits you. Cards, crypto, or a Payeer wallet are all on the table now, and every one of them lands in the same balance ready to spend.