Payments // Utility // Adoption

Spending PIVX

Use it, do not only hold it

PIVX becomes much stronger when people actually use it for payments, transfers and daily crypto activity.

Pay a merchant

Who accepts PIVX directly.

Five services take PIVX in their own checkout. It is a short list — that is the honest state of adoption.

Hosting

FlokiNET

Offshore privacy hosting in Iceland, Romania, the Netherlands, Finland and Singapore, from €3.50/month. PIVX pays with a 0% fee.

Payment methods
AI tools

AI Contently

AI writing and copy tool — one of the few AI products you can pay for directly with PIVX.

Visit site
Shop

House of Cards

German board game shop — the rare case of a physical goods retailer taking PIVX at checkout.

Visit shop
Travel

Travala

Crypto-native booking platform for stays, flights and experiences, with PIVX next to the usual payment methods.

Book travel
VPN

WideVPN

VPN subscription. The site currently answers with a server error, so it is listed but not linked until it is back.

Currently offline
Gift cards

Where PIVX really becomes spendable.

Two services turn PIVX into a code. Between them they cover almost every shop you can think of.

Gift cards · PIVX Labs

PIVCards

Gift cards from Apple, Netflix, Spotify, Steam and PlayStation to Uber, DoorDash, Delta, Airbnb and Marriott — plus OpenAI credit via PPQ.ai and a Virtual Prepaid Mastercard for US users.

Open PIVCards
Marketplace

CoinsBee

Around 5,000 gift cards from 5,000 brands in 185+ countries, plus mobile top-ups and payment cards. Pick the product, pay in PIVX, code arrives by e-mail.

Open CoinsBee
Node hosting

Hosting a masternode.

Three providers host a PIVX node for you — two take PIVX as payment, and the collateral always stays in your own wallet.

Cheapest

masternode.space

Hosted PIVX node for $1 per 30 days. You lock the collateral in your own wallet, paste the transaction data, and pay the hosting out of the node's rewards.

Open masternode.space
Pays in PIVX

Armour Hosting

UK host with a dedicated PIVX masternode plan — 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, £9.99/month — and 5% off when you pay the bill in PIVX.

Node plans
Shared pool

pooly.ca

Automated shared masternode pool: pool coins toward the 10,000 PIV collateral and earn a proportional share. Full custody — the pool holds the coins.

Open pooly.ca
From the Spend PIVX directory

Shops that take it in person.

PIVX Labs runs an open directory with map and ratings. Three of its entries are local shops that accept PIVX straight into a MyPIVXWallet.

Gaming · Port Harcourt

Shuffles 88

Card and tabletop gaming community in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Members can pay straight to the shop's MyPIVXWallet.

Instagram
Fashion · Lagos

First Date Biutique

Luxury fashion in Lagos, Nigeria — designer sneakers, apparel and custom denim, paid by scan-and-pay into MyPIVXWallet.

No website listed
Telecom · Kaduna

FLEXYVIBEZ

Smartphones, telecom services and accessories in Kaduna, Nigeria. Listed in the directory, contact runs through a social profile.

No website listed
Looking for the long tail? CryptoWerk claims 2,244 retailers that accept PIVX, filterable by category and checkout type. spend.pivxla.bz is the PIVX Labs directory with map and community ratings, and pivx.org/merchant-integration is the short official list used above.
How it works in practice

Three steps, one wallet.

The chain transfer is the easy part. What matters is that the code arrives and fits your country.

  1. Send from your wallet

    Open MyPIVXWallet or Core, paste the address, and send. A PIVX transfer usually confirms within a minute.

  2. Receive the code

    The provider sends the gift card number or PIN by e-mail, often within seconds of the confirmation.

  3. Spend it like a normal card

    Redeem the code online or in the shop. From that point on it is an ordinary gift card — nothing crypto left to handle.

For shop owners

Accepting PIVX is a plugin.

A gateway handles the transfer and pays out in the currency you choose — no own node, no wallet maintenance.

Gateway

NOWPayments

Non-custodial crypto gateway with PIVX on its supported-coin list — plugins and API for common shop systems, payout in the currency you pick.

Visit NOWPayments
CoinPayments has dropped PIVX. pivx.org still links it as a gateway, but neither the current CoinPayments platform (22 coins) nor its legacy list includes PIVX any more — checked October 2026. Until that changes, NOWPayments is the only one of the two that actually works for PIVX.
What this page does not promise: the merchant list is the official one from pivx.org/merchant-integration (checked October 2026) — availability and prices change without notice. Gift cards are tied to a country: PIVCards prints the region next to every card (US, CA/PR, international), CoinsBee covers 185+ countries. Providers charge their own margin, and buying a card usually means giving an e-mail address and accepting their terms — the transfer on the PIVX chain is private, the purchase around it is not necessarily so. A testable rule: buy the smallest card first.
Start with the widest route Turn PIVX into something a shop accepts.

PIVCards is the fastest way to test it: smallest card first, code by e-mail, done.