{"id":21085,"date":"2025-04-08T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21085"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:02:24","slug":"lyzi-raises-1-4m-to-expand-tezos-based-crypto-payments-service-for-retail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=21085","title":{"rendered":"Lyzi Raises $1.4M to Expand Tezos-Based Crypto Payments Service for Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Tezos-based crypto payment hub Lyzi said it raised 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million) in a seed funding round to expand the development of its platform.<\/p>\n<p>The round included participation from angels investors Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines, founder of Dfns, and Jean-Luc Bernard, founder of Astek, according to an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lyzi, which is built on the Tezos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2023\/04\/05\/crypto-investors-why-you-need-to-understand-layer-1-protocols\/\" target=\"_blank\">layer-1 blockchain<\/a>, allows consumers to use cryptocurrency to make everyday payments in retail and e-commerce environments. Merchants collect payments in cryptocurrency and receive fiat directly to their bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Following the seed raise, Lyzi&#8217;s next step is launch on Tezos&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/learn\/what-are-layer-2s\/\" target=\"_blank\">layer-2<\/a>, Etherlink, which is compatible with Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), the operating system of the world&#8217;s second-largest blockchain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to make accepting payments in crypto so easy that merchants have to ask themselves, &#8216;Why wouldn\u2019t I do that?'&#8221; CEO Damien Patureaux said in Tuesday&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Building on Etherlink represents the next phase of its journey to expand to more markets around the world, he said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tezos-based crypto payment hub Lyzi said it raised 1.3 million euros ($1.4 million) in a seed funding round to expand the development of its platform. The round included participation from angels investors Christopher Grilhault des Fontaines, founder of Dfns, and Jean-Luc Bernard, founder of Astek, according to an emailed announcement shared with CoinDesk on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-21085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}