Cardano Users Can Now Pay for Groceries at Swiss Spar Stores

The addition of Cardano brings Cardano into a retail payments infrastructure that was already active in stores.

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Cardano's $ADA token is now accepted as a payment method at 137 Spar supermarkets across Switzerland and neighboring Liechtenstein. The rollout is enabled through an integration between the Cardano network and Swiss fintech firm DFX.swiss, which developed the Open Crypto Pay standard used to process the transactions.

Open Crypto Pay already supports payments in several cryptocurrencies at Swiss Spar locations. Those include

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and the

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stablecoins. The addition of

brings Cardano into a retail payments infrastructure that was already active in stores.

Customers pay by scanning a QR code at checkout using a compatible Cardano wallet. Transactions are processed in real time without routing through a centralized exchange. Merchants receive payment in Swiss francs regardless of which cryptocurrency the customer used. DFX(dot)swiss said Open Crypto Pay reduces transaction costs for merchants by roughly two-thirds compared to traditional card payments.

Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Switzerland-based Cardano Foundation, said the integration marks the "beginning of a fundamental shift in how value moves through society." He described the partnership as planting seeds for a financial ecosystem in which "paying with