HOW CRYPTO EXPANDS FINANCIAL ACCESS FOR AMERICA'S UNDERBANKED

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No group stands to benefit more from crypto than the unbanked and underbanked, who make up 6% of US households and are disproportionately low-income, Black, Hispanic, immigrant, or disabled. Crypto is already being used for savings, cross-border payments, gig-work income, and emergency remittances. Users repeatedly describe it as faster, cheaper, and more trustworthy than banks. Many “unbanked” Americans aren't opting out of finance, they're opting into crypto because it delivers reliability, autonomy, and immediacy that traditional banking has failed to provide.