3 people. 10 months. No outside funding.
We registered our own IIN, wrote our own EMV terminal
software, and settled real payments on @base at a real shop.
Card, phone, QR. AUD stablecoin in, AUD or stablecoin out.
What does Australia's first retail payment in AUD stablecoin look like? A Sunday lunch at a Sydney Malaysian takeaway.
Card tap, phone tap, or QR from any wallet. Customer pays @AUDD_digital, merchant keeps it or cashes out to AUD.
No Visa. Settled on @base in seconds.
AUDM @Macropod_AU retail payment went live in a Sydney café this week. Scan, pay, merchant has bankable AUD almost instantly.
The rail underneath isn't the token. @OpenPasskey settles stablecoin in 1 second on Base, 0% protocol fee, no card network in the path.
Same rail a person taps, an agent pays over x402/MPP. One settlement layer for human and machine money.
Settled through a ClearingVault on Base. 0% protocol fee.
Same contract path whether it's card or an agent paying over x402/MPP.
We're the rail under the payment, not the token on top. Good to have AUDM on it.
Did you hear the one about the macropod that hopped into a café and paid with $AUDM? ☕ 🦘
Last week, we completed a live retail payment using AUDM through OpenPasskey's wallet-native payment system, showing how regulated Australian dollar stablecoins can be used in everyday commerce.
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Poll 🆎
Assume two things are fully solved: crypto EMV card tap is accepted at every terminal, and every wallet fully supports ERC-681 token transfer (QR + NFC). Then it’s purely about the experience. Here are the two ways to pay stablecoins in a shop.
A) EMV tap card. Like tapping a contactless bank card. You set it up once (add a card that spends your stablecoin), then at any shop you just tap. No app to open, no PIN, no confirmation. Sub-second.
B) ERC-681 wallet. No card to add. At the shop you scan a QR or tap your phone, your wallet opens with the amount already filled in, you check it and confirm. Pay straight from your wallet. Every payment.
So: tap-and-go with a one-time setup (A), or open-and-confirm with nothing to set up (B)? Which makes more sense?
Card schemes take ~$10k a year off a café doing $400k. That’s one good family holiday the owner never takes.
Our rail @OpenPasskey : $280 a year.
~36,000 payments, 3 on-chain txs each, ~$0.0026 Base gas per tx. No percentage. Just gas.
The QR, explained.
It's a plain ERC-681 URL (Not reinventing the wheel). ethereum:<token>@<chain>/transfer with the amount and a receiving address. Every major wallet already reads this format, so any wallet scans and pays.
Nothing custom to install.
The receiving address is single-use. The terminal derives a fresh one per invoice with CREATE2, so no two payments share an address and nothing is reused. The customer's wallet sends straight to it, then the funds sweep to the merchant vault.
No new app, no new account, no new card. Just a scan.
OpenPasskey is a payment protocol built onchain that lets physical retail merchants accept AUD stablecoin payments at the counter. No new hardware, no bank integration required.
Tap a card, tap a phone, or scan a QR code. Payment settles onchain in under 1 second. Merchant receives AUD the same day via two regulated Australian issuers.
Built on @base
The phone tap, explained.
On Android we use Host Card Emulation. The phone presents the same EMV card over NFC, no card needed in hand.
On iPhone the secure NFC path (NFC SE) needs an Apple entitlement. We've applied. Not expecting it soon, Apple moves slowly here.
We've also applied to Apple Pay and Google Pay. Same story, long queue. We're not waiting on either. The QR and card paths already work on every phone today.