Travelfi

When $27.6T in annual transaction volume surpasses both Visa and Mastercard combined, you can’t dismiss it. That’s exactly what stablecoins achieved in 2024 according to CEX.io: industry analysts say that we’re at the “second inflection point” for blockchain adoption, and last week at the Travolution European Summit in London we unpacked why this matters for travel. Our panel crystallized a fundamental insight: in travel, blockchain only delivers real value when coupled with payments. The numbers tell a compelling story - stablecoin market caps are projected to double their 2024 volume, reaching $400B by 2025 year-end according to Bitwise Asset Management. This isn’t about technology, but enabling what travel desperately needs: faster, cheaper, programmable cross-border transactions with “real money”. ...

Looking forward to joining the Travolution.com European Summit on Tuesday, May 13th in London, where at 13:05 I’ll dive into: “Connect, distribute and pay – Web3 and crypto as enablers”. In a 2025 where stablecoin adoption is absolutely exploding, shocking skeptics and vindicating believers, with Q1 transaction volumes surging to $14 trillion and outpacing Visa’s $13 trillion for the same period. Meanwhile, the travel industry is finally transitioning from cautious pilot projects to robust, onchain infrastructure stacks like Camino Network, with over 2 million transactions processed as of late April and more than 78,000 wallet addresses across the ecosystem. This transformation is decades overdue, but possible now that we’ve unlocked the technology to seamlessly integrate connectivity and distribution with payment: we call it TravelFi. ...

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. ...

🎉🎉🎉 1,012,856 travel transactions on Camino Network and counting - huge congratulations to us! What started as a vision is now becoming the backbone of the travel industry one block at a time. The 1M milestone is a tribute to our vision becoming reality and to our partners whose use cases we empower with digital wallets, digital identity, and digital money. Camino supercharges travel businesses’ existing travel and financial systems with novel rails for travel connectivity, distribution, and payment. And 2025 is the perfect moment to join the movement, as this constitutes the rock-solid foundation empowering AI Agents to conduct truly autonomous travel transactions. ...

Michael Ros has assembled an impressive lineup of speakers for the ‘Future of Hotel Tech - AI & Blockchain’ webinar on February 4th. I’ll be sharing insights about Camino Network and how it serves as an operating system enabling onchain connectivity, identity, and payments - the foundation for GenAI-powered guest journeys from home to destination and back. Join us to explore the future of hospitality tech! #HospitalityTech #TravelFi #DigitalIdentity #FutureOfHotels ...

This starts the snowball effect that will revolutionize payment and settlement of RWA in an industry who moves as an ecosystem on top of a new blockchain stack. The sky is the limit, and in this case the sky is a sizeable slice of our 11tn usd travel industry being transacted on chain, tantuni. #travelfi #programmablepayment #LHG Originally posted on LinkedIn