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An incredible amount of effort went into the updates we’re pushing out this week—literally years in the making. Excited to share everything that’s in store!
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🟦 Base Pay is an n-of-1 checkout experience in crypto—there’s really nothing else like it.
So, when the @base team asked us how we could get this UX live for @FlexaHQ merchants in the most seamless and easy-to-integrate way possible, we jumped at the challenge.
It’s been an incredible collaboration these last few months, and I’m so excited to share that as of today, Base Pay is now default-on for all Flexa Payments integrations—including Mini App Payments, online checkout, and in-person payments with Flexa QR Codes.
Major thanks to @jessepollak, @davidtsocy, @WilsonCusack, and the entire Base team for the continued partnership! LFB!
Now available: faster, more seamless USDC checkout with Base Pay.
Flexa and @base are teaming up to make it easy for any merchant to accept digital asset payments with the fastest onchain checkout experience for USDC.
No wallets to manage, no risk of fraud, no added complexity. Base Pay is now a default payment option in every Flexa Payments experience—from QR codes to mini apps, payment links, and more.
Now you can accept USDC with Base Pay and receive payouts in any currency of your choice—all with integrated and automated reconciliation and settlement.
It’s yet another step toward fast, secure, and accessible digital payments for merchants everywhere. Only at flexa.co/base-pay.
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Looking back on 2024 feeling immensely proud of everything the @FlexaHQ team has accomplished. In just the last 6 months…
– Shipped the long-awaited Flexa SDK, and introduced native integrations with long-time friends @zashi_app and @NighthawkWallet
– Designed and deployed the new Flexa API, which is serving as the simple—but incredibly robust—foundation for all of our products going forward
– Kicked off major savings with our partners @RegalMovies (jointly with @CoinbaseWallet) and @sheetz (to commemorate going live in all stores)
– Partnered with @reown_ to help bring WalletConnect support to even more wallet apps, even more seamlessly (still more to come on this front)
– Previewed a beta of the new and dramatically improved Flexa Capacity v3, built on @anvil_xyz and @AlchemyPlatform
– Launched our new Flexa logo and brand in tandem with a revamped website (flexa.co) and new docs
– And… laid the groundwork for some entirely new offerings coming in the next quarter
This team ships. Excited to keep up the pace in 2025. (And until then, a happy new year and a bit of rest!)
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We’re beyond proud to announce that Flexa is now enabling the first purely crypto tap-to-pay interface for retail payments, with NFC-enabled hardware wallets (and mobile wallets coming soon!)
It was such a pleasure working with @ccamrobertson and the whole team at @useburner to bring this to life.
💳 Tap to Pay with crypto is here. No phone, no internet required—just tap an NFC-enabled hardware wallet and pay instantly on the blockchain.
✅ No extra steps or QR codes
✅ As easy as tapping a credit card
✅ Secure, decentralized, and fast
Read the full announcement:
flexa.co/newsroom/tap-to-pay
(Drop by the @spenders_club booth at #ETHDenver to see it in action!)
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We’re pulling out all the stops for the biggest Flexa-powered holiday season yet.
Pay with $USDC on @Base in @CoinbaseWallet, get 10% off at Regal. As many times as you want (well, up to fifty). What are you going to see?
Watch more and spend less.
Save 10% on tickets and concessions at any US @RegalMovies theater when paying with USDC in Coinbase Wallet, powered by @FlexaHQ.
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Not many know this, but @NighthawkWallet was the first developer that partnered with us to build and beta test the new Flexa SDK. Incredibly rewarding to see this hard work and long effort go live!
More fantastic news for Zcash users! Flexa and @NighthawkWallet are excited to announce the integration of Flexa Components into the innovative, privacy-focused wallet.
Beginning today, Nighthawk users can spend their $ZEC at thousands of brick-and-mortar locations across the U.S.
Read more about the integration: flexa.co/newsroom/nighthawk-…
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The day has come! Pay with Flexa is now live in the @zashi_app.
All of us here at @FlexaHQ are so grateful to have such a diligent and privacy-centric collaborator as @ElectricCoinCo in making this dream a reality. As Josh writes, this is just the beginning!
I first met the @FlexaHQ team in 2018 with the dream that one day it would be easy to spend shielded Zcash at retailers everywhere.
That day has come. 🎉🚀
Have fun with it!
Thank you to the @FlexaHQ team and my @ElectricCoinCo team. We're just getting started together.
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It’s difficult to put into words how excited I am about everything we launched today @FlexaHQ…
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A big congratulations to our friends at @Lightspark and @Coinbase! I suspect we’ll look back on this integration as *the* watershed moment that helped Lightning break through to the mainstream.
We're excited to share that @Coinbase has selected @Lightspark to bring the Lightning Network to all its customers, promising near-instant, cheaper Bitcoin transactions. Read more here: bit.ly/3xkjwAH
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Really enjoyed speaking with Emma Kinery at @AmerBanker about Flexa Tap to Pay, and how we’re continuously pushing the boundaries of crypto payments to make them more powerful, accessible and affordable than ever! americanbanker.com/news/excl…
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Hey @jimcramer, saw your segment on crypto payments this morning. At @FlexaHQ, we’ve been processing BTC payments for Nordstrom and GameStop since 2019. Would love the opportunity to introduce you to our network and how it works (+ help Faber get his next Lamborghini with BTC).
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Get in, Marty. We’re reinventing crypto payments (again). flexa.co/terminal
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Big surge in $SOL payments on Flexa this week—back in the top 3 and beating out USDC for the first time ever. Seems like folks are getting excited for Breakpoint!
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@FlexaHQ can help (USDC payments on Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, etc. converted to whatever currency you want, with same-day ACH, full reconciliation, and reporting). Are you looking for in-person or online or both? What do you use for your POS/storefront?
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Now™
Today, we’re pleased to release a beta preview of Flexa Capacity v3. Now powered by @anvil_xyz, the v3 dapp is faster, more detailed, and more intuitive, while providing access to much more onchain data than ever before.
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Bealls is celebrating their 110th anniversary this year—it’s incredible that such a storied retailer would be among the first to adopt in-person crypto payments!
Flexa is very proud to partner with @MBeallX and team in bringing this experience to life across the entire Bealls, Inc. footprint.
Starting today, you can spend your USDC, bitcoin, ether, and more at any any @beallsinc, @BeallsFL, or @shophomecentric location—with instant digital asset payments across more than a dozen blockchains powered by Flexa.
Read more: flexa.co/newsroom/bealls
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Enjoyed speaking with @CNBC’s Crypto World about what the future may hold for #Bitcoin! BRC20s, Lightning Network capacity, payments, and more... Thanks for the great discussion, @JordanCNBC 🙌🏻
“I really believe crypto is a technology that can enable better funds flows for almost any possible use case.”
Watch Flexa co-founder @trev on CNBC’s Crypto World break down what’s driving the current price of BTC, share his take on the use cases propelling digital currency adoption, and more.
cnbc.com/video/2024/02/05/ge…
ALT Flexa co-founder @trev on CNBC’s Crypto World breaks down what’s driving the current price of BTC, share his take on the use cases propelling digital currency adoption, and more.
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No one asked, but my 2¢ are:
1. Anvil is the perfect name for the protocol AF is building
2. Acronym is a great name for a parent co. that will mostly sit in the background (think Alphabet)
3. It’s convenient (and probably on purpose) that the “AF” acronym is a through-line
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“Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible...”
Flexa SDK 1.0.4 is now available. With this release, all information related to asset balances (including amounts, estimated values, and one-time key assignment) is computed and managed locally on device.
This eliminates the need for any balance information to ever be transmitted to Flexa, and further improves the overall privacy surface of the Flexa SDK.
docs.flexa.co
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I’ve worked with @trspalding a lot over the last decade. For anyone who thinks these latest changes are hard to understand, my advice is to just think bigger. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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✅ Any asset…
✅ in any app…
⬜️ at any store in the world.
Today, we’re very pleased to introduce Flexa Payments, the culmination of years of painstaking research into delivering the fastest and most delightful digital currency payments experience for merchants everywhere… And now supporting *any* app. 🧵 medium.com/flexa/flexa-intro…
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Speaking at WalletCon today to share some of our thoughts on why the next generation of crypto payments *won’t* need credit or debit cards.
Starting soon—tune in!
If you can't make it in person to WalletCon, you can catch our cofounder @trev's keynote being live streamed at 2:35 ET.
Link: abs.xyz/stream/WalletConnect
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No mini app required! Just head into any Bealls location, tell your cashier you’d like to pay with crypto, and scan the QR code that appears on your PIN pad. Works with any crypto wallet, powered by @FlexaHQ.
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But really, the only date that @dannymccb and I are focused on right now is the date we have 100 successful payers using SpendKit (on Nighthawk and each wallet that comes next). Then 1000, and 10,000, and so on.
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Hey Luke, of course—lots we can do! We’re big Brave / $BAT fans here at Flexa. Just sent you an email.
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Yep, still stands. Current plan is to sunset the SPEDN app sometime next year—as soon as we can ensure an equivalent experience for every supported asset in non-Flexa wallet apps (i.e., via the new SDK). Will also enable withdrawals before that.
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@dannymccb and I truly couldn’t be prouder and happier about the amazing team we’ve built, the work we’ve done, and the friends and partners we’ve made along the way. But at least for right now, a nap...😆
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We’ll announce when we’re ready. There are a lot of moving parts with this one, so some discretion would be much appreciated.
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Retweets ≠ endorsements (...Or do they?)
Like & retweet if you agree with me that @FlexaHQ Spedn app should let us #PayWithLitecoin at Whole Foods, Gamestop, and thousands of other merchants! 🐔
How about it? @trspalding @trev
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Regulators have to realize that crypto is a technology (and govern it like one). The speculation frame is myopic and the only way to write effective legislation is to focus on builders instead.
Great op-ed that perfectly crystallizes the obviousness of this approach:
1/ Crypto Policy Needs to Empower Builders, Not Speculators — If the United States is to lead in crypto and AI, it needs clear rules that recognize the value these innovations can bring to the economy. Unfortunately, neither presidential candidate seems to understand this.
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More work ahead, but we are making great progress—and we are now making *faster* progress, which is the important part.
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Litecoin is now on Flexa! Pumped to be working with the @LTCFoundation to help spread the adoption of cryptocurrency for payments.
P.S. @johnkim77 @SatoshiLite Does this mean we're part of the #LitecoinFam now? 😉🙏🏻
I'm convinced that this will have the biggest impact on mass adoption.
"Litecoin is absolutely one of the best cryptocurrencies for real-world payments and I’m excited to support the entire Litecoin Community to make cryptocurrency spendable everywhere."-@trspalding of @FlexaHQ
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Med, Max, Pamp—No one’s avoiding anything. We’re just building. Flexa is healthier than it’s ever been, and personally, I'm invigorated by the puzzle pieces that are falling into place right now. Remember, great things take time. Be kind to one another.
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Flexa is now a commerce company. We’re here to make it easy for companies of any size to connect their businesses to the future of the financial system.
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Taking us a bit longer than expected to crunch the first round of Capacity v3 rewards, but still expecting them out later today!
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Absolutely still the vision to expand beyond “crypto”—but probably worth clarifying that I do expect all forms of money to become digital assets (even if the end-user doesn’t realize it).
The internet : data :: distributed ledgers : value
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And the latest version of SPEDN lists all of these locations as they are rolling out 💫
ALT Screenshot of the SPEDN app showing a complete list of Sheetz locations where Flexa is enabled
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Lots of changes afoot, in fact! 2024 shaping up to be a big year for Flexa. Honestly, I’m so excited for the @cryptogitz. We’ll still be working closely going forward—but now she can make an even bigger dent in the cryptoverse. Stay tuned.
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Really enjoyed my time with @BrycePaul101 on @CRYPTO101Pod during the Digital Currency Summit.
ICYMI, the episode is now up on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
New episode out now with @trev from @FlexaHQ
Do not miss out on:
-How #Crypto will be used in the real world via Flexa
-Current views of the #crypto and #bitcoin market
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Listen Here: link.chtbl.com/Crypto101
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We’re definitely interested—which wallets apps do folks prefer for storing their XRP nowadays?
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We also put a fresh coat of paint on Flexa Payments, which now powers digital asset acceptance on 13 different networks (👋, @base!) in any sales channel for some of the most forward-thinking sellers in the world.
flexa.co/payments
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We’ve been working with @useburner to bring a totally new point-of-sale form factor to life for digital asset payments. Flexa Terminal is the answer to crypto and stablecoin acceptance that small businesses have been looking for.
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FYI, we’ve identified the issue but are still spot-checking the new distribution. I would just like to ask for a little patience while we triple-check the numbers… The full rewards disbursement might not be available until early next week.
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It’s really, really difficult to make an app this powerful while still having it feel “light.” Expecting many Family UI affordances to become industry standards—and get cribbed by other wallets in the coming months/years.
Managing multiple wallets can be challenging. Family makes it easy, so no matter how you like to organize things, you can quickly see how your wallets are linked. Easily view related wallets by checking which ones exist under the same wallet group (Secret Recovery Phrase). 🌱
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As we’ve said before (many times), Flexa is focused on building for the long term. Always a pleasure to partner with companies that share those values.
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Working on both of these items right now. Intended outcome is to be ~2–3x faster than SPEDN.
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Another big announcement getting its day in the sun... I'm beyond excited for what @FlexaHQ and @CitconPayment can achieve together—starting with enabling bitcoin payments at IShoppes for the hundreds of thousands of daily travelers through JFK (and more)!
Flexa is delighted to announce a partnership with @CitconPayment, an all-in-one payments gateway trusted by over 6,000 brands around the world. medium.com/flexa/citcon-part…
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Yes working with digital wallets and also trying to push forward a common NFC standard with @useburner. Sounds like a lot of overlap. Let’s try to sync up in LA?
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But… as if that wasn’t enough, we also unveiled an entirely new brand platform and identity, designed in-house over the past year with support from our friends at @CMANDteam. 🙌
flexa.co
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And both of these new products are now built on top of a completely redesigned Flexa API—one that’s vastly simpler, more powerful, and extensible than anything we’ve ever had before. Our new API has been a labor of love for a little under two years now, and it’s going to power some incredible new commerce experiences still yet to come.
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The big news is obviously Flexa Components, a brand new set of thoughtfully designed UI elements to help developers level up their wallet apps (yes, self-custody), all easily integrated with the new Flexa SDK.
flexa.co/components
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Excellent seeing you today! Always great catching up and I’m so glad we got a chance to dig into more of our roadmap together… 😎🌟
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> I’m assuming every wallet will get the merchant updates same day?
Correct. When we add a new place to pay, it goes live in all Flexa-enabled apps at the same time.
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Every card network has the same problem: as a public company, they’re extremely disincentivized from moving volume over any decentralized networks that are not their own. Which is why the BI piece says that the “foundation of [MC’s] strategy” is their bespoke and proprietary “multi-chain network.” Don’t get taken in.
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Hey, credit where due—I’m really proud of what the team has accomplished recently and can’t wait for you all to use it.
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Well, this blew up! For the record, my like was pointed at the “still shows promise” bit 😇. I don’t share any of the same disappointment—Anvil and AMP will be critical building blocks for the ecosystem in the years ahead.
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It must go without saying at this point, but it’s always such a privilege and a pleasure to push the crypto payments envelope with @ccamrobertson, @digit & the entire Burner team! 🙌🙌🙌
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You’ll be able to send from any shielded address, but you’ll still need to make payments using your Flexa ID.
(This is so Flexa can know “who” is making the payment, in order to stay compliant. Sending addresses are not captured by the SDK at all, on any network.)
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Have you emailed support@flexa.co yet? We’ve been working closely with everyone who’s written in to help them regain access to their AMP. Still advocating strongly with Coinbase’s Web3 Wallet team to resolve this in a straightforward way.
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Heads up: we are suspending Flexa payments with our partners @BedBathBeyond and @buybuyBABY due to their recent Chapter 11 reorganization (hopefully only temporarily). We’ll continue to monitor with the team and bring payments back online if and when we can.
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Yes, 100%. You wouldn't believe the effort and timelines involved, but we will get every merchant onto the new platform eventually :)
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Pumped to launch support for $APE on Flexa today!
P.S. If you aren't already taking advantage of this year's #12DaysofFlexa perks, tomorrow might be a good time to start...
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Hey, fantastic sleuthing. Mind taking this down so we don’t have to pull it altogether?
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Yep, we are already discussing this with @m_at_anvil and hope to enable the ability to auto-compound via an upgrade to Anvil TBCPs.
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This one has been in the works for some time now... Proud to finally announce our partnership with @aurustech to help enable faster, safer, and cheaper payments for even more merchants around the world!
Today, Flexa is excited to announce a new payments partnership with @aurustech, the unified payments platform for nearly one in every five top 100 retailers. medium.com/flexa/flexa-and-a…
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The tweet:
Ready to see how easy it is to spend crypto at @beallsinc, @BeallsFL, or @shophomecentric
1. Tell your cashier you want to pay with crypto and scan the QR code.
2. Choose your favorite crypto wallet app and asset.
3. Confirm and walk out with your purchase 🛍️.
Easy as that! We can’t wait for you to try.
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Presenting the first and last chance you may ever have to get a quality steak burrito for less than 5,000 gwei:
Sooo get 99.95% off a new Garlic Guajillo Steak entrée when you spend your ETH using @FlexaHQ at Chipotle.
Exp 10/4 or $20K in total redemp. In-restaurant only; no digital orders. Subj. to avail. 1/acct (max. discount $20/purch). Terms: chip.tl/flexa. Offered by Flexa.
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Thanks for your patience! Claiming for March collateral rewards is now live—app.flexa.co
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All uncirculating $AMP is still safe and secure in semi–cold storage across Coinbase and Gemini Custody. In other words, nothing has changed since this post was written! medium.com/flexa/improving-t…
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🧐 Hard disagree. I believe I said we’re ~10% of the way to replacing credit cards. But this shouldn’t be news—we’ve never once been shy about measuring this work on such a long timeline.
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The reward root went out as expected yesterday and we’re just working out some kinks in the dapp’s claiming UI. For March, we distributed 20.874M AMP on 8.475B in collateral, for an effective global reward rate of 2.96%. Claims should be available shortly.
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This is false. I have no idea where these figures came from—and they certainly aren’t backed up by any onchain data. My guess is that someone misinterpreted an old blog post.
Flexa no longer maintains the Amp project, so we will ask the AF to look into correcting this.
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Sure—that specific node is being wound down as part of our transition to using Lightspark’s infra (see nitter.app/lightspark/status/1659…)
We're scaling the #LightningNetwork ecosystem. We're excited to announce more customers using the #Lightspark Platform to build payment solutions! More here -bit.ly/41QPqON
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1/ Hey, Hawaii! The final hearing for bill SB945 is TODAY at 2pm HST. If this bill doesn't pass committee, digital currency businesses will again become *prohibited* in Hawaii as of June 2024.
But the bill might still pass. Here’s how to help👇🏻
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I think you’re referring to interchange? Importantly, we don’t use Visa/MC rails at all—Flexa is basically offering merchants a parallel rail that sidesteps all of the typical intermediaries.
That said, sorry for not being more clear above: we do charge fees to merchants (it's the only fee we charge). More on our website: flexa.co/payments
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Yep, we call these “reusable Payment Links.” I don’t know if we expose them in our docs yet but you can see hints of them in, e.g., docs.flexa.co/api/api-refere…
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