Speaking of merchants, I know a project that's paving way for more merchant adoption of cryptos. Modern Finance Chain (mfx token) will be like Dash or PundiX, only better! It wont require a bulky hardware, in fact, no hardware required at all, just the merchant's mobile phone, the platform's software and freedom of numerous cryptos that could be used to pay for services. Whats more? Instant crypto to fiat gateway. These are features i think commerce needs.
Even asides new projects popping up, there has always been the likes of Bitpay that has really helped a lot of merchants in some developed part of the world to accept cryptocurrency payment and be able to get their funds converted to fiat immediately and that to me has really helped in the usage of crypto and even though it is not something we can see in most of part of the world, at least, it is a start. Asides that we are even seeing payment processors like the likes of Orbis that I saw recently, and I know as time goes on, the real life usage of crypto will be a norm than something anticipated for.
On top of that, the merchant doesn't have to pay for using the payment processor! There's a reward system for users as well.
All very attractive benefits
I know as time goes on, there will always be so many projects that will come up to really make the usage of cryptocurrency in real life enticing. We are seeing a lot of them already and the possibilities that they will always keep coming and even creating more competition, but one thing I am certain of is that, we may not have gotten to a level that we would really say the usage of crypto is rampant, but at least, we are going to get to that level at some point, judging from the way things are going currently within the space and projects that are channeled towards the real life usage of crypto and some incentives for users.