{"id":564605,"date":"2026-03-05T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/cardano-can-now-be-used-to-pay-at-137-spar-stores-across-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:52:38","slug":"cardano-can-now-be-used-to-pay-at-137-spar-stores-across-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/cardano-can-now-be-used-to-pay-at-137-spar-stores-across-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano can now be used to pay at 137 Spar stores across Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cardano<\/p>\n

Supermarket giant Spar has enabled ADA payment rails for customers in 137 Swiss stores, as the country moves closer to its global crypto hub ambitions.<\/p>\n

Switzerland\u2019s push as a crypto-friendly hub is getting a new retail test case, with Cardano\u2019s ADA token now usable for grocery purchases at Spar stores across the country.<\/p>\n

Cardano (ADA<\/a>) users can start paying for their groceries in 137 Spar supermarkets across Switzerland after the latest Open Crypto Pay integration from Swiss fintech firm DFX.swiss, the Cardano Foundation said<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

The system is designed to process transactions in real time and allow payments directly from ADA wallets without routing through a centralized exchange. For merchants, Open Crypto pay reduces transaction costs by about two-thirds compared to traditional cards, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Supermarket giant Spar has enabled ADA payment rails for customers in 137 Swiss stores, as the country moves closer to its global crypto hub ambitions. Switzerland\u2019s push as a crypto-friendly hub is getting a new retail test case, with Cardano\u2019s ADA token now usable for grocery purchases at Spar stores across the country. Cardano (ADA) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-564605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}