Now valued at $500M, Cosmose ditches Stripe to adopt Near's crypto solution

For all the investment speculation and hype, cryptocurrency has so far struggled to find meaningful use cases. Now there's some effort from Singapore to turn the general public into crypto adopters through blockchain payments. Cosmose AI, a nine-year-old company that uses AI analytics to track in-store foot traffic and engage with shoppers online, is partnering with Near, one of the blockchain protocols competing with Ethereum.