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TAP.
SCAN.
SPEND.
GET CASHBACK.

Simple.

Or so it seems.

MERCHANTSTRANSACTIONSBANKSPUBLISHERSAFFILIATE NETWORKSREWARD PLATFORMSRECONCILIATIONCONSUMERSMERCHANTSTRANSACTIONSBANKSPUBLISHERSAFFILIATE NETWORKSREWARD PLATFORMSRECONCILIATIONCONSUMERSMERCHANTSTRANSACTIONSBANKSPUBLISHERSAFFILIATE NETWORKSREWARD PLATFORMSRECONCILIATIONCONSUMERS
Go under the hood
CONSUMER
CARD
CARD NETWORK
ISSUER
TRANSACTION DATA
MERCHANT ID
REWARD PROGRAMME
PUBLISHER
AFFILIATE NETWORK
MERCHANT
TRACKING
ATTRIBUTION
RECONCILIATION
INVOICE
PAYMENT
REWARD
FIG. 01 — THE HIDDEN NETWORK

Cashback isn't simple, or free
It just seems like it is.

Behind every cashback transaction sits an enormous network of merchants, banks, card networks, transaction providers, publishers, affiliate networks, reward platforms, reconciliation systems, invoicing each other, collecting money and moving it. Every time money moves from one party to another there is a cost, and that cost erodes ROI for merchants and reduces rewards for consumers.

Simplifying this complexity and eliminating inefficiency is the opportunity.

The world already earns billions in cashback.

But cashback doesn't move.

01
BANK A
CLOSED LOOP
CUSTOMER
CASHBACK
WALLET
STOP

VALUE CANNOT LEAVE THIS PERIMETER

02
PUBLISHER B
CLOSED LOOP
CUSTOMER
CASHBACK
ACCOUNT
STOP

VALUE CANNOT LEAVE THIS PERIMETER

03
AIRLINE C
CLOSED LOOP
CUSTOMER
POINTS
PROGRAMME
STOP

VALUE CANNOT LEAVE THIS PERIMETER

04
REWARDS APP D
CLOSED LOOP
CUSTOMER
REWARD
WALLET
STOP

VALUE CANNOT LEAVE THIS PERIMETER

Every reward programme is its own economy. And almost none of those economies can talk to each other.

Merchants.
Rewards.
Transactions.
Affiliates.
Reconciled.

The industry has networks.
It doesn't have a network.

What if cashback could move?

MerchantConsumerMerchantMerchantConsumer

What if cashback could circulate?

No more cash collection, reconciliation, costs or inefficiencies. A shared, trusted ledger of promotional discount rights improves ROI and profitability for all.

Take
Cashback
Onchain®.

By switching from hard cash payouts to v£, v$, v€ discount rights, that can't be “cashed out” but only redeemed in future, the experience of cashback remains but participant economics change completely.

v$
FIG. C — VOUCHER UNIT
People walking along a high street of independent shops
Real merchants. Real transactions. Real people.
The three-sided network
01
MERCHANTS
02
TRANSACTIONS
03
CONSUMERS
Voucher Currency
value in circulationreconciled onchainBanks / Publishers / Reward Programmes distribute

Three sides. One economy.

01

Merchants

Turn cashback expenditure into network liquidity.

Independent shop owner greeting a customer at the counter

Every merchant is another place to earn — and another place to redeem.

Today
  1. 01£10 cashback budget
  2. 02Publisher
  3. 03Consumer
  4. END
The network model
  1. 01Merchant prices a future sale.
  2. 02Voucher Currency is distributed.
  3. 03Consumer experiences it as cashback.
  4. 04Consumer redeems it with a participating merchant.
  5. 05Merchant receives Voucher Currency.
  6. 06Accepted value can offset network obligations or circulate again.
  7. CONTINUE

Cashback stops disappearing.
It starts circulating.

0Merchant
0Merchants
0Merchants
0Merchants
0Merchants

Every merchant creates another place to earn. Every merchant creates another place to redeem. Every merchant makes the network more valuable.

Liquidity grows with utility.

02

Transactions

Did the customer buy?

That is the fundamental question behind payment-linked rewards.

FIG. A — PAYMENT CARD
FIG. B — TERMINAL
CARD-LINKING
BANK DATA
PAYMENT PROCESSORS
OPEN BANKING
MERCHANT PROCESSORS
POS
PAYMENT NETWORKS
TRANSACTION APIs
UPI
TERMINALS
QR

De-duplicated transaction data is the truth layer.

The network doesn't need to own every source of transaction data. It needs to be able to de-duplicate them. One card. One transaction. One reward.

03

Consumers

Rewards should be worth more than where they were earned.

Customer paying with a phone at a coffee shop counter
Two friends laughing while paying at an outdoor café
Earn here.
Redeem here.
Expire here.
Earn.
Move.
Redeem.
Circulate.

Your reward shouldn't be locked to where you received it.

The flywheel
MERCHANTS
fund future purchasing power
TRANSACTIONS
verify qualifying purchases
BANKS + PUBLISHERS
connect audiences
CONSUMERS
earn Voucher Currency
CONSUMERS
spend within the network
MERCHANTS
receive Voucher Currency
VALUE
circulates again
VOUCHER
CURRENCY

Value circulates instead of terminating.

The most important comparison
Cashback today
  1. 01Merchant pays cash.
  2. 02Publisher tracks.
  3. 03Transaction reconciled.
  4. 04Merchant invoiced.
  5. 05Money collected.
  6. 06Consumer credited.
  7. 07Cashback sits inside programme.
  8. 08Consumer eventually withdraws or spends.
  9. END
Cashback onchain
  1. 01Merchant prices future sale.
  2. 02Voucher Currency distributed.
  3. 03Transaction verifies entitlement.
  4. 04Consumer receives purchasing power.
  5. 05Consumer spends with another merchant.
  6. 06Merchant receives purchasing power.
  7. 07Merchant reuses it or offsets network obligations.
  8. 08Value enters another transaction.
  9. CONTINUE

From a line. To a loop.

Why onchain?

Because no single participant should own the network.

PROGRAMMABLE

Economic rules can execute automatically.

INTEROPERABLE

Value can move between connected applications.

TRANSPARENT

Supply and movement can be independently verified.

GLOBAL

The economic layer isn't constrained to one rewards programme.

LIQUID

Value can move rather than terminate.

OPEN

New participants can integrate with the economic layer.

Blockchain isn't the product.
A connected cashback economy is the product.

We don't need to create the cashback industry.

Merchants✓ EXIST
Banks✓ EXIST
Card networks✓ EXIST
Transaction providers✓ EXIST
Publishers✓ EXIST
Reward programmes✓ EXIST
Consumers✓ EXIST
Billions in reward spend✓ EXIST
The connecting economic layer
Missing.

We didn't discover cashback yesterday.
We've been building the infrastructure underneath it for over a decade.

TRANSACTION VERIFICATIONMERCHANT ACQUISITIONPAYMENT-LINKED REWARDSREWARD DISTRIBUTIONPUBLISHER CONNECTIVITYMERCHANT IDENTIFICATIONREDEMPTIONVOUCHER INFRASTRUCTUREONCHAIN ECONOMICS

We understand the inefficiency because we operate inside it.

The cashback industry has already been built.

The merchants exist.

The transactions exist.

The banks exist.

The publishers exist.

The consumers exist.

The money already exists.

WHAT'S MISSING IS THE LAYER THAT CONNECTS THEM.

We're building it.

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Take Cashback Onchain.

Turn rewards into purchasing power.

Turn purchasing power into liquidity.

Turn cashback into a network.