Stablecoin rewards & acceptance

CryptoPos

Merchants and buyers both get paid to move money on the new rail — with the economics visible at the counter, not at month-end.

Open the live prototype ↗ demo data throughout

The why, in one breath

A card swipe quietly pays for fraud checks, refunds and rewards. A crypto payment pays for none of that — which is why merchants shrug. CryptoPos makes the missing pieces visible and lets the merchant choose them, priced, at the counter.

Premise

Merchants today choose between custodial processors that convert instantly — and take a spread — or a bare wallet address with no receipts, refunds, or reporting. CryptoPos is the missing middle.

Why it’s hard

Three costs hide behind the QR code: settlement volatility, refund semantics when price moves, and no dispute rail. None are technology problems; all are priced into “no.”

The insight

Merchants change behaviour when the economics pay for it — the enriched-data play from card rails: value for basis points, made visible.

The decisions that matter

Configured once, visible always.

Default asset→ USDC first, volatile opt-in volatility is the merchant’s enemy, not their marketing plan

Settlement→ Auto-convert above a threshold the decision Parity expands into a full treasury surface

Refunds→ Value pinned at sale, in fiat when price moves, “refund in what?” already has an answer

Rewards→ 2% back in USDC, margin-capped merchant funds it knowingly — cost per redemption shown in bps at config time

Receipts→ Line items travel with payment data for basis points — the oldest trade on card rails, ported

North star: merchants still accepting weekly at day 90. ★

Signups and gross volume inflate with incentives and say nothing — one whale distorts a month. A merchant transacting a quarter later, unprompted, means the economics and the operations both held.

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