Crypto Payment Frenzy: Lyzi’s Big Deal 🍀

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Picture this: you’ve got a digital wallet stuffed with crypto coins, and now you might actually get to spend them outside of your mom’s basement—while wearing real pants! That’s what Lyzi, a charming little startup on the Tezos blockchain, has in store for us after raking in a sweet €1.3 million in seed funding. (Seriously, who knew we’d ever say “crypto” and “real-life spending” without the words “comedy sketch”?) 🤯

So, these euros didn’t just fall from the sky after a “Buy One, Get One” sale. They were handed over by angel investors with shockingly cool names like Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines (check that on your Scrabble board) and a few financial wizards from NYX Ventures and Astek. If those names don’t scream “fancy champagne parties,” I don’t know what does. 🍾

Apparently, Lyzi has been busy constructing the kind of payment infrastructure that would make your great-aunt Mildred’s old checkbook style look prehistoric. They’re blending crypto payments into retail and e-commerce, hoping to spoil us with the convenience of paying with random tokens instead of our dusty euros. Who doesn’t want to buy a croissant with a coin named after cats or Shiba Inus, am I right?

The best part? Retailers can handle crypto like a pro: keep it, flip it, or trade it faster than you can say “dogecoin mania.” Boom—fiat currency in your bank account in seconds, minus that awkward moment when your precious coin tanks faster than your New Year’s resolutions.

Lyzi’s system also plays nice with existing in-store gadgets. Got a point-of-sale thingy? Perfect. Want to just flash a QR code from your phone? Sure thing. Running an online store full of crocheted alpaca socks? Slap on Lyzi’s solution and watch crypto fans squeal with delight. 🧦

If you think this sounds like a big leap, they’ve already integrated into over 400,000 points of sale, mostly in France. (Yes, that includes high-falutin’ shops like Printemps and hip burger joints, because you can never have enough existential dread with a side of fries.) More big names are apparently on the way, so brace yourselves for future “Crypto Accepted Here” stickers next to “We Have Free Wi-Fi.”

Lyzi suggests nobody should be surprised—18% of folks in France are now crypto owners, which is 6% more than a year ago. At this rate, they’ll be paying for baguettes with Bitcoin by next Thursday. Globally, more than a billion people might rock some crypto by 2027. If that doesn’t sound like the plot of a science-fiction rom-com, I don’t know what does.

Tezos R&D bigwig Cedric Roche basically called crypto the pinnacle of financial freedom. One might say it’s “liberté, égalité, and crypto-té,” which is totally a real phrase I’m coining right now. 😏

Meanwhile, Lyzi’s rolling toward a major milestone: launching on Tezos Layer-2 network Etherlink sometime in Q2. That means more digital assets, more speed, and fewer awkward moments waiting for a transaction to go through while your date wonders if you’re a real adult. 🏎️

Co-founder and CEO Damien Patureaux is banking on people’s desire to pay for everything from sneakers to caviar with digital tokens. Remember that unstoppable wave of the future? It’s basically here—minus the flying cars, but who needs those when you’re paying for your groceries in crypto?

So, brace yourself, Europe. Lyzi’s taking their newly acquired sacks of cash (and hopefully comedic timing) to expand like crazy and make crypto payments as normal as complaining about Mondays. With Etherlink in their sights, they’re sprinting to bring you the unstoppable synergy of “tap, pay, and please-be-worth-more-tomorrow.” 😎

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2025-04-08 21:26