One of the barriers that prevents crypto to be adopted by the retailers is the price volatility. It can be difficult to run a business when your profit is greatly affected by the massive day to day fluctuation. I would't run my retail shop by accepting crypto unless I run at at 200% profit but this would make my business less competitive.
Bitcoin Air is bringing a solution to this. Using the Air Protocol, users can swap their $XAP coins to $USDAP, which is the side chain coin that is pegged to USD, when they choose to spend their $XAP at any retailers. Merchants store the $USDAP in their side chain wallet and they are not affected by day to day fluctuation and this ensures that their profit is stable. At the same time. When the swap is executed, a certain amount of $XAP will be burnt on chain and a certain amount of $USDAP is minted on the side chain (which is the stable chain). If the merchant chooses to re-enter the on chain (the volatile chain), the $USDAP will be burnt and the $XAP will be minted.
This is a 100% driven community project, which is still at its development phase. A fork will be given to Bitcoin and Peercoin holders whereby the snapshot will be taken on Thanksgiving day, 22nd November 2018. Fork ratio will be announced 1 day prior to the snapshot. More details can be found at
https://bitcoinair.org/