Ready Pulls Its USDC Card Outside the EEA With One Hour’s Notice

By Isaac • June 17, 2026 11:17 am •

Ready told users outside the European Economic Area that their Ready Card would stop working, and it gave them about an hour.

The restriction followed a card provider change. Users posted the deactivation notices over the weekend, and the speed is what stunned people.

Ready is the company formerly known as Argent, built around the Starknet ecosystem. The Ready Card spends USDC straight from a user’s wallet balance anywhere Mastercard is accepted.

So this is a stablecoin product hitting plain card-provider geography.

Ready ( @ready_co ) is closing all its cards for users outside the EEA. But the funniest part is that they are closing the cards in just ONE HOUR.

I have been familiar