DoorDash is paying delivery workers in USDC. Cash App just brought stablecoin payments to 60 million users. And you'll soon be able to book hotels in 190+ countries with crypto at rates up to 30% below Booking,com.
Three things crypto can do in 2026 that weren't possible at scale last year. @AdrianBaschuk breaks them all down.
Monero ($XMR) is now accepted on Epic.
You can now use your Monero ($XMR) to book 2M+ flights and hotels at up to 30% below Booking,com.
Epic is crypto's travel layer accepting 200+ cryptocurrencies, including Monero (@monero).
The projects that fail loudly get all the attention. The ones that fail quietly are worth paying more attention to.
Most crypto projects don't blow up. They just stop. The team goes quiet, the roadmap stops updating, and the Telegram gets a little slower until nobody's checking it anymore.
Managing a peak is hard, but it's a problem most teams would take. The real test is what happens after the attention moves on.
Most teams never figured that part out.
While everyone's watching the charts, we're getting Epic ready for launch.
To start our week: a new Deals section that surfaces hotels with the steepest discounts, a smoother checkout, and cleaner property pages.
More refinements and UI showcases coming soon.
All good stories come to an end.
In a few weeks, we will be winding down operations.
To every PettBro, creator, supporter, and partner who joined us along the way: thank you for being part of the journey 💜
On September 7, our little purple friends will go to sleep.
Didn't know you could book a flight or hotel with $ZBCN?
Zebec Network (@Zebec_HQ) will soon be one of 200+ supported cryptocurrencies on Epic.
You'll be able to use your $ZBCN to book 2M+ flights and hotels at up to 30% below Booking,com.
2 million hotels. 190+ countries. 200+ ways to pay.
Here's what a booking on Epic will look like:
→ Search any destination
→ Pick your flights and hotels with rates up to 30% below Booking,com
→ Pay with $XRP, $BTC, $ETH, stablecoins, or card
→ Confirmation lands instantly
All within minutes.
In 2022, the major payment networks pulled out of Russia. Airbnb suspended operations.
Visa and Mastercard cut off their cards.
Booking,com stopped taking bookings.
In China, foreign cards barely work outside the big hotels, and travelers get capped and charged extra just to use the apps everyone else pays with.
Where you can travel, and how much you pay to do it, keeps coming down to your passport and your bank.
Epic takes both out of the equation. Book from anywhere and pay in 200+ cryptocurrencies, or with your card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.
Your wallet doesn't care about geopolitics. Neither do we.
The future of travel is being built right now.
We’re building more than just another travel platform. We’re building a new way for people to move, pay, save, and earn through travel.
A lot is happening behind the scenes.
Soon, booking travel will feel very different.
Stablecoins processed $28 trillion in transactions in 2025. Nearly double Visa's entire annual network volume.
Travel is the last major spending category to adopt crypto at scale.
Epic is the first travel platform built to capture that shift and offer truly discounted prices.
Book 2 million hotels across 190+ countries with USDC, USDT, and 200+ cryptocurrenices. At up to 30% below what Booking,com charges.
The narrative around $XRP was brutal for years.
Delistings. Lawsuits. Written off as a dead coin.
You held through all of it anyway.
Epic is one of the first travel platforms built to actually reward you for it. Book 2M+ hotels across 190 countries, pay in $XRP or 200+ other cryptos, and get up to 30% below Booking,com.
The best part? Up to 8% cashback in $XRP on every booking.
Waiting it out was the right call.
The first buy in a presale is easy: FOMO and conviction are high.
The second buy is when you actually find out what you believe: when the price drops after TGE and the initial excitement fades.
The narrative that made sense at the sale price is harder to hold down 40%.
Most people don't average down. They wait for a recovery that may or may not come.
The investors who do well in presales usually had one thing figured out before they bought: what it would take to make them buy again.
What does a $5,000 solo trip to Spain actually cost on Epic?
@AdrianBaschuk books every hotel and flight live and breaks down exactly where the savings come from.
You don't need more money to travel more. You just need a better booking platform.