How a US Retail Giant is Entering Crypto

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Bealls Inc. is adopting crypto payments across its 660+ stores in partnership with Flexa. Bealls Inc. is bringing crypto payments to its 660+ stores, making it one of the largest retailers to adopt the technology. CEO, Matt Beall and Flexa Co-Founder, Danny McCabe join CoinDesk's Sam Ewen to detail the partnership. They explain how the move improves the customer experience while leveraging faster, cheaper transactions to boost retail margins. Learn why a 110-year-old retailer is making a move into the future of payments. - Break the cycle of exploitation. Break down the barriers to truth. Break into the next generation of privacy. Break Free. Free to scroll without being monetized. Free from censorship. Freedom without fear. We deserve more when it comes to privacy. Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design. Break free with Midnight, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://midnight.network/break-free⁠⁠⁠⁠ - OwlTing (Nasdaq: OWLS) is building invisible rails for global payments. With OwlPay, businesses and users can bridge fiat and stablecoins, send money instantly across borders, and access stablecoin checkout at lower costs. Licensed worldwide, OwlTing delivers secure, compliant, and regulated infrastructure for the digital economy. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.owlting.com/portal/?lang=en&utm_source=CoinDesk&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=CoinDesk_Banner⁠⁠⁠⁠. - Genius Group has partnered with CoinDesk for Bitcoin Treasury Month, launching the Genius x CoinDesk Quest. Participants can join the Bitcoin Academy, complete free microcourses from experts like Natalie Brunell and Saifedean Ammous, and enter to win 1,000,000 GEMs (worth 1 BTC) promoting bitcoin education and adoption.Learn more at: ⁠geniusgroup.ai/coindesk-bitcoin-treasury-month/⁠

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0:00.0	We want to be there to make their shopping experience as convenient, as simple, as easy as possible.
0:06.4	And crypto just happens to be the way right now that's checking a lot of those boxes.
0:16.4	Break the cycle of exploitation, break down the barriers to truth, break into the next generation
0:20.8	of privacy, break free.
0:22.7	Free to scroll without being monetized, free from censorship, freedom without fear.
0:27.0	We deserve more when it comes to privacy.
0:29.1	Experience the next generation of blockchain that is private and inclusive by design.
0:33.7	Break free with midnight, visit midnight.net.net.net.net.
0:36.0	Network forward slash break dash free. Looking for a faster, cheaper way to move money worldwide,
0:41.4	Owl Ting, now listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol, Owls, is building the rails for stablecoin payments.
0:48.1	Convert fiat to stablecoins and send money as easily as a text message. Learn more at Owlting.com.
0:54.9	Coin desk Bitcoin Treasury Month is brought to you by Genius Group, a Bitcoin
0:58.0	Treasury company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker GNS. Genius is building
1:03.0	toward a 10,000 Bitcoin Treasury and just launched Genius Academy, featuring courses from
1:08.2	Safeedina Moose and more. Start learning for free today at Geniusacademy.AI.
1:13.4	Genius Group, Genius isn't measured in IQ.
1:15.9	It's measured in Bitcoin.
1:17.8	Hey, it's Sam Ewan for CoinDesk.
1:19.8	I'm here with Matt Bell of Bell's retail, Danny McCabe from Flexa.
1:24.6	We're going to talk about all things.
1:26.8	Here's this historic store. It's
1:28.2	been around 110 years that is now accepting 99 different cryptocurrencies as payment, which I
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