Fold has partnered with Blackhawk Community (BHN) to distribute its Bitcoin Reward Card, increasing client entry to bitcoin by means of BHN’s giant retail reward card community.
The Fold Bitcoin Reward Card permits customers to reward bitcoin with out technical information.
The Bitcoin Reward Playing cards are at present obtainable at choose on-line retailers and can quickly be obtainable each on-line and in bodily retail shops.
Bitcoin private finance app Fold introduced that it’s tying up with reward card and incentives platform Blackhawk Community (BHN) this week. Beneath the settlement, BHN will distribute the Fold Bitcoin Reward Card.
The distribution settlement is predicted to extend mainstream shoppers’ entry to bitcoin by bringing the cryptocurrency into on a regular basis commerce. Leveraging BHN’s retail distribution community will give Fold the chance to extend person and transaction development.
“At BHN, we perceive that customers at present count on extra flexibility in how they provide and retailer worth, and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have gotten a part of that equation,” mentioned BHN GVP of World Commerce Jennifer Philo. “Fold exemplifies the type of forward-looking accomplice BHN is proud to assist—they’re creating merchandise that carry bitcoin into the middle of how shoppers interact with cash and construct long-term worth. By bringing the Fold Bitcoin Reward Card into our expansive retail ecosystem, we’re delivering yet one more sensible, accessible approach for customers nationwide to embrace cryptocurrency by serving to them earn, save, and spend smarter.”
Fold opted to make use of BHN, a branded funds supplier that was based in 2001 and now has a worldwide footprint of greater than 400,000 client touchpoints, together with prime retailers, e-commerce platforms, loyalty applications and enterprise rewards. Fold’s launch of its Bitcoin Reward Card inside this community will make it one of the broadly distributed bitcoin reward merchandise within the US market.
The cardboard is already obtainable on choose on-line platforms, and Fold plans so as to add extra on-line retailers within the coming weeks. The 2 are planning to make the playing cards obtainable in brick-and-mortar retailer shops later this yr.
Fold launched its Bitcoin Reward Card in Might of 2025. The Atlanta, Georgia-based firm permits shoppers to reward bitcoin through reward playing cards, with out requiring technical information or a crypto pockets. Reward card recipients can redeem their reward card by means of the Fold App.
“Till now, bitcoin was troublesome for the typical particular person to entry, not to mention share,” mentioned Fold Chairman and CEO Will Reeves. “By making bitcoin obtainable as a present card, we’re opening entry to the hundreds of thousands of shoppers who already purchase, ship, and use reward playing cards. This isn’t about novelty. It’s about assembly folks the place they’re and integrating bitcoin into the monetary instruments and channels they already perceive. We’re constructing infrastructure for on a regular basis adoption. BHN offers us that path into mainstream retail, opening entry to bitcoin throughout the $300 billion US reward card market, one thing the ecosystem has struggled with for over a decade.”
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