TANGEM MONTHLY DIGEST—APRIL 2026

In April, the month Bitcoin dominance refused to crack. It opened with the Fear & Greed Index at 8; extreme fear territory not seen since Terra-Luna detonated in 2022 and never really recovered. Bitcoin posted its worst Q1 since 2018. Altseason got delayed again. Drift Protocol lost $270 million due to compromised approval flows. The macro mood was somewhere between funeral and root canal.

You wouldn't know it from looking at Tangem's calendar.

Tangem shipped a Visa card across three regions, sponsored Japan's largest Web3 conference, hosted a packed community night in Buenos Aires, released 3 app updates, among other things

Here's what actually happened.

TOKYO: APRIL 7 AND 8

TEAMZ Summit 2026 took over Happo-en in Tokyo on April 7th and 8th. More than 10,000 attendees. Title sponsors included Binance, XRP, Cardano, SBI VCT, Startale, and EMURGO. Speakers ranged from Tether's Subash and Ledger's Takatoshi Shibayama to Justin Sun, Charles Hoskinson, and Trust Wallet's Nick DiSisto. The theme was "Tradition Meets Tomorrow." The venue was a 400-year-old Japanese garden in central Tokyo. Geisha shows, sumo demonstrations, karate exhibitions, and cutting-edge Web3 — all in one place.

Tangem was the official Wallet Sponsor.

A Bitcoin lottery ran from 5:30 PM each day. Anyone could enter. The first 100 to check in received bonus tickets, and visitors who collected stamps at exhibitor booths received more. Winners had to provide a wallet address to receive their BTC, with prizes wired out after the event.

Binance Pay arrives at Tangem checkout

Tangem integrated Binance Pay into the storefront in April. One of the most widely used crypto payment rails now sits alongside the standard options, letting buyers pay for a hardware wallet directly with 100+ cryptocurrencies. 

For new customers who already hold crypto, it removes the off-ramp step entirely, pays in the asset you already own, and ships a self-custodial wallet out of the box.

Available at shop.tangem.com/tangemwithcrypto

Tangem Art Challenge launches on World Art Day

We kicked off the Tangem Art Challenge on April 15th, timed to World Art Day. The brief is simple: design the next Tangem card. The top five designs split a $500 BTC pool, and the winning design has a chance of being printed as a real, limited-edition physical Tangem card.

The format leans into something Tangem has done well from the start: treating the card itself as a canvas rather than a commodity. Previous limited editions: the Bitcoin series, White Stealth, the Hold Your Freedom collection, and the Sakura edition have all leaned on the same idea. 

This challenge opens the design seat to anyone. Submissions, judging criteria, and entry deadlines are all detailed in the official announcement on X: https://x.com/Tangem/status/2044396571366715497 

Win The Game campaign kicks off

Tangem launched its Win The Game campaign in April, timed to the build-up around the summer's biggest soccer tournament. The prize pool is built for the occasion: 1 BTC at the top, 50 match tickets, and thousands of merch drops underneath. Entry runs through email; sign up, and your inbox becomes your boarding pass.
 

Soccer is the largest sport on the planet, the summer tournament is the largest event on the soccer calendar, and we're putting wallets and seats inside the stadium on the line.

Full campaign details and signup at tangem.com/en/winthegame 

Tangem at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences

We delivered a guest lecture at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in April. The session covered wallets, keys, and what self-custody actually means in practice; moving the conversation past textbook definitions and into the mechanics of how ownership works when there's no bank in the middle.

Every student in the room walked out with a Tangem wallet in hand. Theory is one thing. Holding your own keys is another, and the gap between the two is where most crypto education stops short. Putting a working hardware wallet into a student's palm at the end of a lecture closes that gap in a way no slide deck can.

The Neu-Ulm appearance fits a broader pattern of Tangem showing up at universities. It is part of an ongoing investment in educating the next generation of crypto users before they form habits on a centralized exchange.

Independent research on active self-custody

Tangem published a research report in April, drawing on independent data from 3,172 U.S. crypto holders surveyed by Protocol Theory. The headline finding runs counter to one of the industry's oldest assumptions: cold wallet users aren't passive holders sitting on bags. They're 1.83x more likely to actively trade than to hold, compared to any other group.
 

This reframes what self-custody actually is. For years, the narrative has been that hot wallets are for active users and cold wallets are for HODLers: the long-term holders who lock everything away and check it twice a year. The data says otherwise. The people who take their keys off exchanges are the same people most engaged with the market.

It tracks with the direction Tangem has been moving the product. Tangem Pay for spending, Yield Mode for earning, native staking across more than a dozen networks, and integrated swaps. The wallet is a workbench, and data confirms that users treat it as such.

Full report: tangem.com/en/active-self-custody

Tangem at Money20/20 Bangkok

Tangem joined Money20/20 in Bangkok in April, the Asia-Pacific edition of one of the most influential fintech gatherings on the calendar. Three days of conversations with hundreds of attendees: fintech executives, payments leaders, regulators, and the institutional buyers who shape how money actually moves across the region.

The takeaway from the Tangem side: forge ahead. The mission stays the same: cheaper, more reliable, more convenient self-custody for everyone. APAC is one of the fastest-growing crypto regions on the planet, with retail adoption running ahead of regulation in some markets and ahead of infrastructure in others. Money20/20 is where the people building that infrastructure compare notes.

If you didn't catch the team in Bangkok, there's a standing invitation: drop a line, tell us where you're going, and we'll let you know when we'll be there.

Match Pass Goal wallets

We launched the Match Pass Goal wallet collection in April, timed to the build-up around the summer's biggest soccer tournament. The drop ties directly into the Win The Game campaign—and like every Tangem special edition before it, the collection is limited and built for the moment.

The wallet works the same way it always does: secure element, EAL6+ certification, tap-to-sign. But the surface reflects the moment it ships into.

Available now at shop.tangem.com/soccer

Tangem at the University of Oregon

Tangem delivered another university lecture in April, this time at the University of Oregon. The session was led by Tangem Ambassador Jess, with every student in the room walking out holding a Tangem wallet to practice what they'd just learned.
 

The Oregon appearance came in the same month as the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences lecture in Germany, marking the second campus visit in April and another data point in Tangem's broader pattern of meeting future crypto users where they are in classrooms.
 

The ambassador-led format matters here. The Tangem Ambassador program operates as a global network of regional advocates who run workshops, host meetups, and bridge the company to local crypto communities.

Push notifications on Tangem Pay

Tangem rolled out push notifications for Tangem Pay in April. Three things go live with the update: a notification the moment your virtual Visa card is issued, alerts on every purchase and spend with the amount attached, and real-time balance updates as funds move in and out of the payment account.

The feature lands in the right month. Tangem Pay only graduated from waitlist-gated early access to open availability on April 20th, going live across the United States, Latin America, and selected Asia-Pacific countries. 

Push notifications close one of the last UX gaps that separates the experience from a traditional bank card. You tap to pay, your phone buzzes, the balance updates;  the same loop millions of people already trust from their banking app, now running on USDC settled on Polygon, with the keys still on the user's Tangem card.

Tangem Pay activation remains free. The full overview, supported regions, and signup flow live at tangem.com/tangem-pay 

Tangem at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas

We closed out April on the floor of Bitcoin 2026 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, the largest annual gathering in the Bitcoin world. Three days, 30,000+ attendees, and a constant stream of people stopping by the booth to share their stories, check out the wallet line, and grab a piece of limited-edition Tangem merch. Anyone who walked away kitted out can confirm: Tangem dressed the part.

The Vegas appearance capped a month that already saw Tangem at TEAMZ Summit in Tokyo, Money20/20 in Bangkok, university lectures in Oregon and Germany, and the Tangem Night community gathering in Buenos Aires.

Tangem at the University of Minnesota

Tangem closed out the April university circuit with a lecture at the University of Minnesota. Students walked in curious about crypto, walked out understanding what owning it actually means, and walked out holding a Tangem wallet to prove it.

Minnesota makes three campus visits in a single month: Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences in Germany, the University of Oregon on the West Coast, and now the Twin Cities. Three lectures, three rooms full of students, and three rooms where the difference between "I have a Coinbase account" and "I own my crypto" got cleared up in real time. Theory is easy. Holding the device that holds the keys is what makes it stick.

The campus program is one of the quieter through-lines in what Tangem has been building. Future crypto users are forming their habits right now, and we're making sure those habits start with the keys in their own pocket.