{"id":26089,"date":"2026-03-05T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26089\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:42:08","slug":"cardanos-ada-token-now-accepted-at-spar-supermarkets-in-switzerland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26089\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano’s ADA Token Now Accepted at Spar Supermarkets in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cardano\u2019s ADA token is now available as a payment option in Spar supermarkets across Switzerland, following the blockchain\u2019s integration with fiat on- and off-ramp platform DFX.swiss.<\/p>\n

The integration leverages DFX.swiss\u2019 crypto payment standard Open Crypto Pay, already used<\/a> to enable payments in cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the USDC<\/a>, USDT<\/a> and DAI<\/a> stablecoins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open Crypto Pay enables Cardano<\/a> users to spend ADA tokens from native wallets to be used directly at the checkout for payment in Swiss Spar stores, by scanning a QR code. Stores receive payment in Swiss francs, \u201cregardless of the cryptocurrency the customer paid in,\u201d according to the Open Crypto Pay website.<\/p>\n

The platform does not implement specific double-spend protection for brick-and-mortar merchants, calling it a \u201ctheoretical issue\u201d as unlikely given the technical complexity and ease with which other methods of non-payment, such as \u201cleaving a store without paying,\u201d can be accomplished.<\/p>\n

Major Supermarket Chain Spar to Launch Bitcoin Payments Across Switzerland<\/a><\/p>\n

So far, 137 Spar supermarkets across Switzerland and neighboring Lichtenstein can accept payments using Open Crypto Pay\u2014though according to a map on its website, stores in Geneva, Swiss capital Bern, and Davos, which hosts the World Economic Forum, have yet to be onboarded.<\/p>\n

Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation, called the integration \u201cthe beginning of a fundamental shift in how value moves through society,\u201d in a press release shared with Decrypt. He added that the partnership is \u201cplanting seeds\u201d for a financial ecosystem in which \u201cpaying with ADA is as natural as paying with a card.\u201d<\/p>\n

Switzerland has gained a reputation as an early adopter of crypto, with some 350 businesses in the city of Lugano now accepting Bitcoin for payment as of December 2025.<\/p>\n

While a citizen-led initiative has campaigned for an amendment to the Swiss Constitution to allow the country\u2019s central bank to add Bitcoin to its reserves<\/a>, the Swiss National Bank remains ambivalent about the prospect.<\/p>\n

In April 2025, the bank\u2019s chairman Martin Schlegel rejected the idea, citing crypto\u2019s volatility and market liquidity as concerns. “Cryptocurrency cannot currently fulfill the requirements for our currency reserves,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardano\u2019s ADA token is now available as a payment option in Spar supermarkets across Switzerland, following the blockchain\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15941,15942,15944,15943,276,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-26089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-cardano","9":"tag-cardano-foundation","10":"tag-payment-option","11":"tag-spar","12":"tag-swiss-francs","13":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116177806475601727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}