Barça Mobile Plans Stellar Wallet With Wirex and Crossmint
Barça Cellular, FC Barcelona’s official cellular telecom service operated by New Period Visionary Group, is creating an in-app digital pockets utilizing infrastructure from Wirex, Crossmint and the Stellar Improvement Basis.
New Period introduced the partnerships on Aug. 5. Its announcement described the pockets as an built-in characteristic of the prevailing Barça Cellular app moderately than a standalone product, supposed to convey connectivity, funds, loyalty advantages and journey companies into one interface.
Wirex will present fee and card infrastructure for future wallet-linked fee options. Crossmint will provide pockets infrastructure and user-onboarding expertise, whereas Stellar will function the pockets’s blockchain community layer.
“By integrating pockets performance instantly into the Barça Cellular app, we aren’t launching a separate product or a brand new line of enterprise,” New Period CEO Ruslan Bîrlădeanu stated.
An Enlargement Past Journey eSIMs
In an April 2025 launch announcement, FC Barcelona offered Barça Cellular as a cellular digital community operator developed with New Period. Its first product was a International Journey eSIM providing web connectivity in additional than 170 nations. The membership additionally stated deliberate phone and fiber companies in Spain would use Orange community infrastructure.
The pockets plan would prolong that connectivity-focused app into funds and rewards. New Period’s announcement described the work as growth, and stated Wirex would assist allow future wallet-linked fee experiences.
Barça Cellular’s present U.S. App Retailer itemizing presents it as a journey eSIM app, advertises connectivity in additional than 200 locations and lists model 2.5.0 as launched on Aug. 3.
