Buy & Swap COTI (COTI)

A new direction

COTI's website greets visitors with a message that the project has evolved, updating its product and vision. The earlier COTI site is still available for anyone looking for the original ecosystem.

The new focus is everyday spending with privacy: booking travel and using crypto in real life without giving up personal information. The app is in early access, and COTI says private travel, card and VPN come together in one app.^{[1], [2]}

COTI Travel

COTI Travel is described as the first privacy travel product. You can book hotels, flights and car rentals without an identity check during booking, paying with COTI or more than 200 other cryptocurrencies.

COTI says prices can be up to 30% cheaper than Booking.com, across 500,000 properties in 190 countries, including regions where some booking sites are blocked.

For travellers who prefer not to hand over passport-style details to a booking site, or who hold most of their savings in crypto, this is the practical test of COTI's idea: a privacy coin is only as useful as the places that accept it. Travel is a large, everyday purchase, which makes it a meaningful first place to try.^{[3], [4]}

The privacy crypto card

COTI's card is designed to let you spend crypto at Mastercard merchants around the world, which the site puts at over 100 million in more than 210 countries. It offers virtual and physical cards without identity checks.

The card connects to a non-custodial wallet with a private balance, so you keep control of your funds. COTI says transactions stay private end to end, and that you earn cashback in COTI on every purchase.^{[5], [6]}

A VPN you pay for in COTI

COTI VPN needs no account. You pay in COTI and connect, with servers in more than 190 countries. Subscription fees are paid with COTI, which gives the token a direct everyday use.

Together with travel and the card, the VPN means the same token can cover a trip, the purchases made along the way and a private internet connection on the road.^[7]

Points and early access

To launch the app, COTI is running a points programme. People can refer friends or hold COTI to earn points that later convert into credits in the app, from a pool of $100,000. The site says point farming starts on October 3.

Early-access sign-up accepts privacy-focused email services such as ProtonMail and Tutanota, as well as aliases — a small detail that fits the product's privacy theme.^{[8], [9]}

Organisations it names

COTI lists the European Central Bank, the Bank of Israel, the Cardano Foundation and Input Output Global among organisations it says use COTI, alongside more than 80 others. The site does not detail what each relationship involves, so these are reported as COTI's own claims.^[10]

Where COTI fits

Across the new products, the COTI token has three clear roles on the official site: a way to pay for travel, the currency for VPN subscriptions, and the cashback earned on card purchases. Holding COTI also earns points in the launch programme.

Because the products are in early access, how widely each of these works in practice is still to be seen.^{[3], [7], [6], [8]}

Launch dates and supply

Exact launch dates for travel, card and VPN, and COTI's total supply and distribution, are not stated on the homepage read for this profile. Those details are UNKNOWN from this source.^[2]