Core Market Problems

Practical cryptocurrency spending faces three critical barriers: technical complexity, economic inefficiency, and user experience friction.

Technical barriers overwhelm average users. A customer with $50 USDT buying $5 coffee must understand gas limits, slippage calculations, and network congestion. During peak times, Ethereum gas fees of $50-200+ make coffee cost 10x its price. Failed transactions still charge network fees.

Economic inefficiency creates unpredictable costs. A user planning $50 groceries faces hidden fees: $5 wallet charge, $30 network cost, $8 conversion spread, $12 merchant fee. Total cost: $105 for $50 groceries. These fees change hourly.

User experience excludes mainstream adoption. A teacher wanting to spend Bitcoin faces terminology like "private keys" and "MEV" that sound like foreign languages. One wrong address means losing money forever with no customer service or transaction reversal.

Merchant adoption faces similar barriers through complex point-of-sale integration, cryptocurrency accounting difficulties, and regulatory uncertainty that discourages acceptance.