How do we bring permissionless digital cash from our wallets into everyday life – into supermarkets, cafés, and corner shops? For more than a decade, crypto has lived mostly on screens: on centralized exchanges, inside speculative narratives and in online shops. Although the conventional payment methods used in physical retail have evolved to become more digital, traceable, still relying on middlemen and have significant consequences for human rights, privacy, and dignity.

We'll talk about what it means to create “birth helpers” for crypto in the meat space — companies that lay the groundwork for a crypto-based circular economy. We'll look at what's wrong with today's crypto processors and what changes when these birth helpers are designed from a human‑first, freedom‑respecting perspective.
The vision is to take cryptocurrencies out of their digital niche and make them a normal option to pay in real life.