Staynex Corporate Travel Case Study: NOWPayments at TOKEN2049

100% payment completion across 21 bookings and 151 room nights, AI curated, concierge confirmed, settled in crypto.

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE, September 8, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Staynex, the operating system for AI-curated social travel and events, has published a B2B case study documenting the corporate travel programme it ran for NOWPayments ahead of TOKEN2049 Singapore. The programme closed with 21 completed bookings covering 151 room nights across four- and five-star properties, with a 100% payment completion rate and no failed crypto checkouts.

The case study follows the strategic partnership announced by the two companies on 7 September. It sets out the operating model, the traveller and payment flow, and the measured results, and is available to media, partners and ecosystem teams.

The programme
NOWPayments mandated Staynex for its internal team travel to TOKEN2049 Singapore, a full event-week programme spanning multiple hotels and multiple travellers. Bookings averaged approximately seven nights.

The case study sets out a six-step operating model, from a single briefing through AI curation, concierge confirmation, crypto checkout, in-stay support and post-event reconciliation. Every stay was paid in crypto through the integrated NOWPayments checkout using a single payment link, removing FX conversion and card declines.

Measured results
The case study records a 100% completion rate, with all 21 bookings closed on the Staynex and Sleap platform and zero failed crypto checkouts. Estimated savings against equivalent mainstream OTA pricing were approximately 10%, or roughly US$10,000 in avoided cost on the same inventory and stay pattern. Settlement was instant through NOWPayments, through the integrated checkout with simply a payment link, compared with typical T+2 to T+3 cycles on card rails. Single-stack ownership from briefing through reconciliation produced no mid-programme booking failures.

"The best partnerships are the ones where both sides become real users of each other's products. Staynex × Sleap uses NOWPayments for crypto payments, and we use their platform for our own corporate travel. That makes this much more than an integration - it's a partnership built on real usage."
— Kate Lifshits, CEO, NOWPayments


The payments layer
The programme ran on the wider ChangeNOW ecosystem stack. NOWPayments reports 99.99% API uptime and support for 350+ cryptocurrencies, with mass payouts processing in under one minute at a 0% service fee and ChangeNOW Pro payouts delivering email-based transfers in under one second with no service or network fees. Internal NOWPayments data indicates stablecoins now account for approximately 45% of merchant crypto payment volume.

"This partnership is the proof that a payments ecosystem will trust Staynex with its own people, on the industry's most visible week, and then extend that opportunity to its community of 20,000+ partners. That is a partnership built around real utility, not a logo swap."
— Yuen Wong, Group CEO, Staynex


What follows
Under the strategic partnership, the two companies have committed to joint go-to-market activity including a co-branded booking site, a product integration roadmap bringing NOWPayments mass payouts, crypto payments, subscriptions, custody and treasury tools deeper into the Staynex and Sleap stack, and a transparent revenue-share model on completed bookings.

The co-branded booking site launched on 7 September 2026 and is open to NOWPayments teams, ecosystem partners and community. The same template is available for other ecosystem partners to deploy for their own teams and communities.

The full B2B case study is available at: https://tinyurl.com/4esekz5k


About NOWPayments
NOWPayments business ecosystem is the crypto payments arm of the ChangeNOW ecosystem, a suite of interconnected Web3 infrastructure products trusted by businesses and users worldwide. Rather than a single payment rail, the ecosystem gives global businesses a complete digital-asset operating stack: enterprise-grade crypto payments, treasury and payout infrastructure, built-in monetization tools, and business support in one place. Merchants accept 350+ cryptocurrencies and 40+ fiat options, including 30+ stablecoins, through invoices, payment links, subscriptions, API integrations and automated mass payouts. The ecosystem also includes ChangeNOW, NOW Wallet and NOWNodes. NOWPayments serves 20,000+ partners worldwide.

About Staynex
Staynex is the operating system for AI-curated social travel and events. Staynex now reaches 2.65 million+ hotels and 700+ airlines, with conversational AI, human concierge and hybrid fiat/crypto checkout. Staynex OS answers two questions, who am I going with, and what can we do together, and turns the world's interesting events into one trip: stays, access, experiences, and the people to share them with. For business partners, Staynex is the curated travel-membership layer for exchanges, crypto cards and communities.

Media Contacts
Staynex: marketing@staynex.vip
NOWPayments: marketing@nowpayments.io
Co-Branded Booking Site: https://sleap.io/partner/nowpayments
B2B Case Study: https://tinyurl.com/4esekz5k

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