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JPY

Also called Japanese yen

What crypto means by it

Japan's currency, and a useful reminder that a dollar balance is not free to spend everywhere. Anything priced in yen has to be converted before it can be paid.

What you already know this as

A foreign currency, in the only sense a card cares about: not the one your account is held in.

In Kite: Your balance sits in US dollars, so spending yen is a conversion, charged at a flat 1.8%.

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