Blackbird Launches Blockchain Loyalty App on Flynet Mainnet

Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty platform founded by Resy and Eater co-founder Ben Leventhal, announced that its Flynet mainnet is now operational, integrating on-chain payments for restaurants.

What to Know:

• Blackbird’s Flynet integrates restaurant payments on-chain.
• This layer-3 blockchain operates atop Coinbase’s Base chain.
• The platform aims to remove middlemen, lower transaction costs, and enhance customer rewards through a streamlined loyalty program.

The introduction of Flynet marks a significant advancement in restaurant technology, purportedly allowing establishments to utilize on-chain systems for payments and loyalty offerings, thereby increasing cost efficiency and attracting customers through enhanced rewards initiatives.

Leventhal remarked, “What we think we can do is build something where transactions become much more cost effective, and the levers that restaurants have to attract and retain customers will become vast.”