{"id":47584,"date":"2025-09-15T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47584"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:47:16","slug":"american-express-introduces-blockchain-based-travel-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=47584","title":{"rendered":"American Express Introduces Blockchain-Based \u2018Travel Stamps\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>American Express has introduced Ethereum-based \u2018travel stamps\u2019 to create a commemorative record of travel experiences, as part of the firm\u2019s revamped travel app.<\/p>\n<p>The travel experience tokens, which are technically NFTs (ERC 721 tokens), are minted and stored on Coinbase\u2019s Base network, said Colin Marlowe , VP, Emerging Partnerships at Amex Digital Labs.<\/p>\n<p>The travel stamps, which can be collected anytime a traveler uses their card, are not tradable NTF tokens, Marlowe explained, and neither do they function like blockchain-based loyalty points \u2013 at least for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a valueless ERC-721, so technically an NFT, but we just didn&#8217;t brand it as such. We wanted to speak to it in a way that was natural for the travel experience itself, and so we talk about these things as stamps, and they&#8217;re represented as tokens,\u201d Marlowe said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an identifier and representation of history the stamps could create interesting partnership angles over time. We weren&#8217;t trying to sell these or sort of generate any like short term revenue. The angle is to make a travel experience with Amex feel really rich, really different, and kind of set it apart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Amex travel app also includes a range of tools for travels and Centurion Lounge upgrades, the company said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Express has introduced Ethereum-based \u2018travel stamps\u2019 to create a commemorative record of travel experiences, as part of the firm\u2019s revamped travel app. The travel experience tokens, which are technically NFTs (ERC 721 tokens), are minted and stored on Coinbase\u2019s Base network, said Colin Marlowe , VP, Emerging Partnerships at Amex Digital Labs. The travel [&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-47584","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\/47584","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=47584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}