Digitalpayments

🇮🇹 Tomorrow at Il Salone dei Pagamenti in Milan - finally spending quality time in my hometown. As VP Product at Chain4Travel, I’m focused on digital payment and identity infrastructure for travel. I’m looking to partner with neobanks, payment processors, stablecoin issuers, and digital wallet providers to link payment rails directly to bookings on Camino Network - enabling atomic transactions that reduce costs and accelerate settlement. With this year’s theme on AI and agentic commerce, the timing feels right: as autonomous agents start handling travel purchases, a transaction layer that grounds payments and identity to blockchain-based source of truth becomes essential. ...

Paul van Alfen’s questions on the on-chain future of travel paymentss cut to the heart of what matters, and here’s my take. Value prop: I won’t be repeating bold numbers that tend to oversimplify, as per our conversations 😉 will just mention two big “quality” advantages: (1) owning the platform on which we distribute/source, so that we can steer its development, and (2) having it standard-based and composable so that functionality can be built upon functionality like lego bricks, to amplify business models, while still maintaining privacy among parties as required. ...