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Finance

Trivago Adds Travala's Hotel Inventory, Gaining Crypto Payment Options

Travala, which is backed by the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, is in talks with potential buyers after receiving a takeover approach late last year.

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Opinion

There Is a World of Web3 Outside the U.S. and Europe

Crypto is thriving in the Asia-Pacific region -- where uses, users and builders abound, Gitcoin's Azeem Khan argues.

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Opinion

Bitcoin Taught Me a Valuable Lesson at Austin’s Airport

Crypto enables people to transact with minimal information. If only we could go through life determining exactly what to share or not, Axelar's Galen Moore writes.

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Web3

Argentinian Airline Issues Every Ticket as an NFT

Low-cost carrier Flybondi has expanded its partnership with NFT ticketing company TravelX to offer all tickets as NFTs on the Algorand blockchain.

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Finance

Latin American Travel Agency Despegar Begins Accepting Crypto Payments

Teaming with Binance Pay, the travel company will initially accept crypto in Argentina, with plans to roll this option out to additional countries.

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Finance

Latin American Exchange Lemon Integrates With NFT Marketplace TravelX to Allow Airline Ticket Purchases

Users of Lemon will be able to purchase up to two tickets per person and receive 50% cashback in bitcoin.

TravelX es un marketplace para productos de viaje tokenizados. (Gary Lopater/Unsplash)

Finance

NFT Marketplace TravelX Launches With Tickets From Low-Cost Argentinian Airline Flybondi

The platform hopes to offer the inventory of 60 more airlines within the next 12 months.

TravelX es un marketplace para productos de viaje tokenizados. (Gary Lopater/Unsplash)

Finance

Dtravel Completes First Smart-Contract Vacation Rental Booking

After months of reworking its product and user experience, the Web3 platform is building out its site with greater autonomy for both renters and hosts.

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5 Tips for Traveling in El Salvador Spending Only Bitcoin

Even though President Bukele has made the cryptocurrency legal tender, it isn't super easy for visitors to get by on bitcoin alone. But with a few tricks, it's possible and fun.

Laura Nori and Riccardo Giorgio Frega road-tripping in El Salvador. (Laura Nori/Riccardo Giorgio Frega)

Markets

Q2 Revenue Surges at Travel Booking Platform Travala

The company has been rebounding along with the travel industry as consumers embrace its blockchain travel booking platform.

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