Dash, the fifth most valuable cryptocurrency by market cap, has partnered with Irish discount gift card platform BitCart to allow users access to significant online savings at Amazon, and soon, hotels.com.



The integration comes in the wake of Dash’s phenomenal growth in Q1, where its total market cap soared from $77 million to $528 million USD. BitCart offers up to 20% discounts on Amazon for consumers using Dash on its platform.



“One of the most important things we need to do to help cryptocurrency adoption grow is to give potential users a strong reason to overcome the technical hurdles and start using digital currencies everyday. Offering a 20% discount on Amazon purchases is a powerful incentive for new users to try Dash out, learn about it, and most importantly, start realizing its benefits”, VP of Business Development Daniel Diaz said. “This partnership marks Dash’s first direct integration to a service of this kind, granting the project more independence. Dash’s fast confirmations and cheap transactions ensure a superior user experience on BitCart using Dash because users don't have to bridge through other networks and wait long times for confirmation.”



BitCart, founded in 2015, gives users a way to spend cryptocurrency on the world’s leading online retailer. In addition Dash, it already accepts bitcoin and is close to adding hotels.com gift cards.



“Dash is an obvious addition to our payment options due to its scalability. It is the superior cryptocurrency for payments over any other cryptocurrency. There is nothing more exciting for me than the decentralization of the global finance system, which is currently inefficient and riddled with fraud. Dash allows our merchant platform to completely eliminate the chance of chargebacks, and it opens up more options to anyone in the world”, CEO of BitCart Graham de Barra said. “Customers can be from anywhere in the world, but currently most users are predominantly from the USA and Asia. With Bitcoin falling to 66% of the total market share, and Dash recently climbing to the fifth most valuable cryptocurrency, I have no doubt that our customer-base will increase with this implementation”.



Besides BitCart, Dash is also being integrated into popular payments plug-in CryptoWoo and Venezuelan cryptocurrency exchange CryptoBuyer.



According to the official release, CryptoWoo has integrated Dash and allowing individuals and businesses to pay for e-commerce products online with the cryptocurrency. The addition means that e-commerce websites and companies can now implement the CryptoWoo plugin to accept Dash as a method of payment, alongside extant native tokens Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin.



CryptoBuyer has also finalized its integration of Dash, which is now available for purchase and sale on its platform. Dash will become a viable alternative to the Bolivar (VEF), which has recently experienced significant drops in value. Local Venezuelans can now use Dash and Bitcoin to make remittances, everyday transactions, top up cell phones, recharge debit cards away from traditional banks and the slumping national currency.