{"id":29406,"date":"2025-05-30T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29406"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:47:10","slug":"ether-fi-rolls-out-crypto-hotel-booking-service-as-it-takes-another-step-towards-neobank-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=29406","title":{"rendered":"Ether.fi Rolls Out Crypto Hotel Booking Service As It Takes Another Step Towards Neobank Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ether.fi, the restaking protocol turned neobank with <a href=\"https:\/\/defillama.com\/protocol\/ether.fi\">$6.8 billion in user deposits<\/a>, has announced the roll out of Ether.Fi Hotels, a feature that lets users book luxury hotels around the world using their Ether.fi Cash cards.<\/p>\n<p>The firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/04\/24\/ether-fi-pivots-to-become-neobank-rolls-out-cash-cards-in-u-s\">pivoted<\/a> to become a neobank last month, offering traditional banking services coupled with its existing native decentralized finance (DeFi) features like yield via Ethereum restaking.<\/p>\n<p>The latest feature is in partnership with Entravel, a travel booking platform that has thousands of hotel brands across the world. Users will also receive 5% cash back for every booking made with the Ether.fi Cash card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This integration brings us one step closer to making crypto usable in everyday life,&#8221; Mike Silagadze, CEO of ether.fi, told CoinDesk. &#8220;Ether.fi Cash already allows users to spend, borrow, and earn on their crypto\u2014now they can travel the world with it, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/ether_fi\/etherfi-cash\">Dune Analytics<\/a> shows that Ether.fi&#8217;s Cash product is already managing $25 million worth of user deposits, with $3.8 million being spent and $109K being rewarded in cash back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ether.fi, the restaking protocol turned neobank with $6.8 billion in user deposits, has announced the roll out of Ether.Fi Hotels, a feature that lets users book luxury hotels around the world using their Ether.fi Cash cards. The firm pivoted to become a neobank last month, offering traditional banking services coupled with its existing native decentralized [&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-29406","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\/29406","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=29406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}