A Crypto Card turned a €328 hotel night into €267
Same room, same night, three tabs at once. InterContinental Barcelona, Classic Twin, 42 m², 1 to 2 Sep, 2 adults
- @ether_fi Travel: €258.48
+€23 tax at the property = €281.48
- @bookingcom: €255
+€26.40 taxes and charges = €281.40
- @InterConHotels direct: €328
taxes and fees included
Booking and EtherFi land eight cents apart, so that is simply what the room costs that night
The card is what changes it. EtherFi pays 5% travel cashback on the €281.48, so €14.07 comes back
The night lands at €267.41. €13.99 under Booking, €60.59 under the hotel's own site
Have you paid for a hotel with a crypto card yet?
Crypto card spending tripled in a year, and $610.2M of it went through one card
@KASTxyz is the sharpest case of it
- Monthly volume went from $2.2M to $89.6M, a 41x jump
- Third by volume over the year, behind RedotPay and EtherFi
- 7.9% of everything spent on crypto cards in those twelve months
Are you using KAST?
Billions will spend 💳
KAST was mentioned on Brazil���s biggest podcast, with 30M+ followers.
Brazilian influencer and streamer @Jonvlogs shared how he uses KAST for all his purchases.
@defyneric Payouts are where the stablecoin thesis actually gets proven. Not trading, not yield, just paying people in other countries without a long wait
@circle The retail end already runs this way. Crypto cards settled $758.8M in July, weekends included
The stablecoin leg clears in seconds. The card network leg still settles on banking days