DtravelDtravel to launch Brazilian host brand on its tech
Dtravel is launching a locally-owned Brazilian brand — not Dtravel translated into Portuguese, but a Brazilian host services business that has operated there for years, running on Dtravel's underlying technology. Eric detailed the launch in a video on X.
The Brazilian market gap Dtravel is targeting is payments: a large share of local short-term rental bookings happen over WhatsApp and settle instantly with PIX (bank-to-bank), while the global OTAs are built for a card-based payment stack the country mostly doesn't use. That mismatch is the reason the brand launching there is Brazilian.
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- A large part of the Brazilian short-term rental market books over WhatsApp and pays with PIX. Bank to bank, instantly. The OTAs are present. They're built for a payment stack that country doesn't really use. That's the gap, and it's why the brand launching there is Brazilianx.com ↗
- Eric on what's launching in Brazil. Not Dtravel translated into Portuguese. A Brazilian brand, run by a Brazilian host services business that's been operating there for years, with our technology underneath. https://t.co/cy8VIrTLeax.com ↗
Dtravel
Dtravel is a web app for discovering vacation rentals you can book peer-to-peer with crypto. Built on the Nite Protocol, a decentralized data layer and open standard booking protocol, Dtravel is a DePIN for vacation rentals.
Vacation rental operators can add their listings to the network by creating a free direct booking site or connecting and existing one by simply importing their Airbnb account. Travelers can search the network using a Nite Protocol aggregator called Dtravel Search.
Participants earn $TRVL, Dtravel's native ecosystem token, for contributing value to the network. The TRVL token is used for payments, staking and governance.
