Salud Wireless · The Vault Card
You cross borders. Your money doesn't. The Salud Vault is a hardware-secured personal agent — cold wallet, debit card, healthcare credential vault, and DeFi gateway — that works in 180+ countries. Available today at your neighborhood CVS.
Three pillars · One card
One subscription. One card. Your financial wallet, healthcare identity, and DeFi gateway — all secured by hardware encryption and available anywhere you are.
Your Vault card is a Tangem-powered hardware cold wallet — EAL6+ certified secure element, no data on servers, no bank account required. A second paired card stays safely at home as your backup. Two cards, one impenetrable financial identity.
The same EAL6+ chip used in US passports stores your health insurance ID, HSA/FSA benefits, Rx plan, and MinuteClinic access — all on hardware that never touches a server. Tap once at CVS to present insurance, pay, and collect rewards simultaneously.
The NFC tap IS the DeFi signature. ERC-4337 account abstraction hides every blockchain complexity — no gas fees, no seed phrases, no MetaMask. Your grandparent and your DeFi power user both tap the same card. The infrastructure is invisible.
Healthcare Credential Vault
CVS Health operates over 1,000 MinuteClinic locations, 9,000 pharmacies, and serves 37 million members through Aetna. Today, every one of those customers carries a separate insurance card, FSA card, loyalty card, and payment card. Salud Vault consolidates all four — on hardware that cannot be remotely breached.
Medical identity theft costs the US healthcare system an estimated $30 billion annually. A credential that exists only on a tamper-proof chip — never in a database — cannot be exposed at the issuer level. The Tangem EAL6+ certification is Common Criteria at the highest grade: the same standard required for US passports and government-issued smart IDs.
For unbanked and immigrant populations, the Vault also becomes a trusted health identity anchor — enabling access to healthcare services that previously required a verified bank account or government ID to access payment systems.
DeFi Consumer Gateway
Every complexity of blockchain — gas fees, seed phrases, wallet addresses, network selection — disappears. Non-technical users access the full power of programmable finance without knowing any of the underlying infrastructure.
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Real-world use cases
Maria walks into CVS, picks up the Salud Vault two-card set, loads $300 cash at the same register. Card activates in 3 minutes with an NFC tap to her phone. She pays rent, groceries, and utilities with her Visa card that afternoon. No bank account. No credit check.
Financial InclusionJosé loads $500 at CVS. He taps his card, opens the app, enters his mother's phone number in Mexico. She receives funds via SPEI in 5 seconds. Total cost: under $2. Western Union would have charged $20–40 for the same transfer and taken 1–3 days.
RemittanceSarah taps her Salud Vault at MinuteClinic check-in. Insurance credentials verify instantly. After her visit, she taps again — copay deducted from her HSA balance. No fumbling for separate insurance card, FSA card, or payment card. One tap does all three.
Health VaultCarlos picks up his monthly prescription at CVS Pharmacy. One card tap presents his Rx benefits ID, verifies formulary coverage, and processes copay — all in a single NFC interaction. ExtraCare points post to his Vault balance automatically.
HealthcareBetween paychecks, Ana's $400 Vault balance earns Aave v3 yield — approximately 4–6% APY on idle USDC. No action required. When she spends, the Paymaster routes from yield-bearing to spending balance seamlessly. DeFi — completely invisible to the user.
DeFi GatewayDavid sets up a smart contract schedule: $800 rent on the 1st, $120 electric on the 15th, $50 remittance to El Salvador every Friday. One tap to authorize all three. The ERC-4337 account executes automatically — no bank account, no overdraft, no missed payments.
Programmable MoneyDistribution · The unfair advantage
No appointment. No bank account. No credit check. Walk into any CVS, pick up the Salud Vault two-card kit from the gift card planogram, load your card with cash, and walk out with a hardware cold wallet, Visa debit card, and healthcare credential vault — all in one.
Salud Capital's retail supply chain business controls planogram positions in over 9,000 CVS Health locations nationwide. The Salud Vault kit launches as a standard gift card SKU — the same display that sells Green Dot and Vanilla cards today. No separate retail negotiation required.
85% of Americans live within 10 miles of a CVS Pharmacy. For unbanked and underbanked communities, that proximity is the on-ramp to the financial system that legacy banks have never provided.
Security architecture
The Tangem EAL6+ certification — Common Criteria at the highest level — is the same standard required for US passports and government smart IDs. Your credentials and keys are stored in hardware that physically cannot be accessed remotely.
Samsung-manufactured chip certified at Common Criteria EAL6+ — the same grade as US passports. Private keys generated and stored entirely on-chip. Extraction is physically impossible without destroying the card.
The chip communicates only via physical NFC proximity — it cannot be reached over the internet, Bluetooth, or any remote channel. Every transaction requires the physical card to be present.
Healthcare credentials exist only on the chip. No cloud database stores your insurance ID, Rx benefits, or HSA data. A breach of any server — Salud's or CVS's — cannot expose what was never stored there.
Tangem's two-card backup architecture uses the second card as a hardware recovery key — not a 24-word phrase. Lose one card, recover with the other. No words to lose, no phishing surface.
Health data is never transmitted to or stored by Salud's systems. The chip presents credentials directly to point-of-care readers — aligning with HIPAA's minimum necessary standard by architecture.
KYC for card compliance is handled by Rain Financial as an independent layer. The self-custody wallet remains fully private. Regulatory compliance and personal sovereignty coexist by design.
Product Architecture · Internal Reference
One Tangem EAL6+ card surfaces three complete product layers — each independently valuable, collectively unmatched. The table below maps every user touchpoint, technology partner, and revenue stream across all three pillars.
| Dimension | Financial Wallet | Health Vault | DeFi Gateway |
|---|---|---|---|
| User Experience | |||
| Entry point | Pick up kit at CVS planogram. Pay + load cash at same register. | Tap card at MinuteClinic check-in or CVS pharmacy counter. | Tap card to phone. One NFC interaction signs any transaction. |
| Activation time | ~3 minutes | Instant tap-to-present | Included in wallet setup |
| Prior account needed? | No bank account. No credit check. Cash only. | Linked to existing CVS / Aetna plan credentials. | No ETH. No MetaMask. No seed phrase. |
| Core Product Features | |||
| Balance type | USDC stablecoin — on-chain, user-controlled, Visa-spendable | Health spending accounts (HSA / FSA) — smart contract enforced | USDC yield position — Aave v3 ~4–6% APY while idle |
| Key action | Load cash → spend Visa → send remittance (<1%, 5s) | Present credentials → pay copay → collect ExtraCare rewards | Tap to sign → batch ops → automated schedules execute |
| Cross-border | MX · BR · PH · GT · SV corridors · SPEI / PIX off-ramp | Global provider network via Aetna international plans | Any on-chain payment, any EVM chain — seamless to user |
| Technology Layer | |||
| Hardware | Tangem EAL6+ · Samsung secure element · NFC ISO 14443-A · Common Criteria EAL6+ (passport-grade) · shared across all three pillars | ||
| On-chain standard | USDC (ERC-20) on Polygon PoS | HSA/FSA eligibility rules — ERC-4337 smart account logic | ERC-4337 + EIP-7702 (Pectra) · Polygon PoS |
| Gas model | Paymaster sponsored — user pays $0 in ETH | Paymaster sponsored — healthcare ops fully subsidized | Paymaster (Alchemy AccountKit) — Salud absorbs gas |
| Settlement speed | 2–5 seconds · <$0.01 / tx | Instant credential tap · 2–5s payment settle | 2–5 seconds · batch ops in single UserOperation |
| Partner Stack | |||
| Hardware / SDK | Tangem co-brand program · MIT SDK · [email protected] | ||
| Card / spend rails | Rain Financial + Visa (Tangem Pay) | Rain + Visa for HSA/FSA spend authorization | Rain + Visa for DeFi-to-fiat spend bridge |
| Cash-in network | PayNearMe · CVS POS barcode reload | N/A — credential layer, no cash-in needed | N/A — funded from wallet balance |
| Stablecoin | Circle USDC · Programmable Wallets API | Circle USDC for HSA/FSA settlement | Circle USDC · Aave aUSDC yield token |
| FX / remittance | Circle · Bitso (MX) · dLocal (BR/PH/LA) | N/A | Any on-chain DEX via ERC-4337 UserOp |
| KYC / AML | Persona · Tiered onboarding: phone-only → ITIN/passport → full KYC · Siloed from self-custody wallet (Rain handles compliance) | ||
| CVS ecosystem | 9,000+ pharmacy cash-in · Planogram SKU | 1,000+ MinuteClinic · 87M Rx members · 37M Aetna | CVS as on-ramp; DeFi operates globally post-activation |
| Security & Compliance | |||
| Credential storage | Private keys on-chip only. Never on server. | Health ID on-chip · off-server · HIPAA-aligned by design | Smart account keys on-chip · Paymaster is separate compliance layer |
| Regulatory path | MSB / FinCEN · State MTLs via bank charter · CFPB Reg E | HIPAA privacy rule · HHS OCR · no PHI on servers | ERC-4337 is smart account infrastructure — not a money transmitter |
| Fraud model | NFC-only signing — card must be physically present | Credentials never leave chip — no database breach vector | Hardware-signed UserOperations — no private key exposure |
| Business Model & Revenue | |||
| Revenue streams | Card interchange · Remittance margin · Monthly plan fee · Cash-in spread | Healthcare payment interchange · HSA/FSA management fee · Loyalty revenue share (ExtraCare) | Aave yield spread · Automation subscription · DeFi protocol referral fees |
| Cost model | Tangem unit cost ~$15–25 · PayNearMe API · Circle USDC · Rain BIN fee | Incremental to pillar 1 — credential provisioning only | Alchemy Paymaster gas cost · Aave v3 integration (free API) |
| Launch phase | Q3 2025 · 500 CVS pilot locations | Q4 2025 · 2,500 locations · Aetna pilot | Q1 2026 · 9,000 national rollout |
| Competitive Moat | |||
| Primary moat | Salud controls 9,000 CVS planogram positions. No competitor can replicate shelf without separate negotiation. | Only card that IS your health identity + payment + DeFi wallet. No incumbent product combines all three. | NFC-tap DeFi UX is the first consumer-grade abstraction. Non-technical users access full DeFi stack invisibly. |
| Vs. Green Dot | No monthly fee. No reload fee. Adds remittance. Self-custody. | Green Dot has no health credential product. | Green Dot has no blockchain or yield product. |
| Vs. Western Union | <1% vs 4–8%. 5s vs 1–3 days. Card product included. | No health product. | No DeFi product. |
Vault Plans
All plans include the hardware Vault card + wireless connectivity. Activate at any CVS today. Transaction fees from your card usage subsidize your wireless — the more the Vault ecosystem transacts, the lower your connectivity cost.
Roadmap
We are speaking with CVS Health partners, BaaS providers, healthcare systems, Tangem, and impact investors. If you see the same opportunity we do, let's talk.