Neighbourhoods and corridors
Chelsea · East Boston · Lynn · Lawrence · Everett & Malden · Roxbury & Dorchester · Somerville — Union Square
Boston, MA
Sell crypto at your counter in Boston
Greater Boston's cash economy is concentrated in a handful of dense gateway cities — Chelsea, East Boston, Lynn, Lawrence, Everett — with some of the highest remittance-sending rates in the country relative to their size.
- No kiosk, no floor space
- Compliance carried by a registered MSB
- Two-minute customer onboarding
- Revenue share on every order
$500.00
Counter order · Boston
- CustomerVerified · 71 sec
- Buying0.00421 BTC
The retail opportunity in Greater Boston
Massachusetts gateway cities pack an unusual amount of corridor activity into small geographies. Chelsea and East Boston serve large Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan populations; Lawrence and Lynn serve Dominican and Puerto Rican communities; Everett and Somerville add Brazilian and Haitian.
Those cities are walkable and dense, which means store catchments are small, foot traffic is high, and word of mouth moves faster than almost anywhere else in the country.
On the ground
Where the counters are in Boston
Check cashers, money transfer agencies, bodegas and Latin American grocers, phone shops, travel agencies doubling as remittance windows. These are the formats the program was designed around, and the neighbourhoods below are where they cluster.
Store formats that fit
Check cashers, money transfer agencies, bodegas and Latin American grocers, phone shops, travel agencies doubling as remittance windows.
Where the money is sent
El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Brazil, Haiti, Cape Verde — the corridors that drive stablecoin demand at a Boston counter.
Languages at the counter
Spanish, Portuguese, English, Haitian Creole. Serving a customer in their own language is the single biggest advantage a counter has over an app.
The arithmetic
What a single transaction is worth to the store
You keep a share of every order. Bigger order, bigger share. The examples below use 1% to 3% — your own rate is in your agreement.
| At the counter | Order size | Store keeps (low) | Store keeps (high) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A customer cashes a check and puts part of it into Bitcoin | $200 | $2.00 | $6.00 |
| A regular buys USDT to send to family overseas | $500 | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| A customer sells crypto and takes the cash | $1,000 | $10.00 | $30.00 |
| A small business owner buys on payday, every other week | $2,500 | $25.00 | $75.00 |
| One larger order, the kind an ATM's daily cap refuses | $10,000 | $100.00 | $300.00 |
The figures above are worked examples, not projected or guaranteed earnings. They show how the arithmetic works on a given order size at an illustrative revenue-share range. Your actual rate is set in your agent agreement, and what any individual store earns depends on its foot traffic, its neighbourhood, its hours and how many customers it serves. Anytime Capital does not promise any level of income.
- A money order earns you cents. A wire earns a flat fee, however big it is. This does not.
- No monthly fee. No minimum. Nothing to buy back before the first dollar is yours.
- Your customer pays our normal published price. Your share does not change it.
Anytime Capital runs its own branches in Atlanta and Miami. Partner stores run the same counter service.
Small geographies, fast word of mouth
Chelsea is roughly two square miles and one of the most densely settled immigrant cities in the United States. A store there that becomes known for something is known for it within weeks, which is a real advantage for a product that spreads by recommendation.
It also means competition between counters is close-quarters. Being first in a small gateway city is worth considerably more than being fourth.
The Brazilian corridor through Everett, Somerville and Framingham is a distinct market again, with its own language and its own remittance habits.
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What a Boston store actually signs up to
Your employee signs in at retail.anytime-capital.com, verifies the customer once, places the order and takes the payment at the counter. There is no machine to install, no crypto for the store to hold and no float to fund.
Anytime Capital is the registered money services business behind the transaction and carries the customer identification programme, the monitoring and the reporting. Your store is a serving location, and your existing licences remain yours with their own obligations.
Onboarding is a compliance review and a training session. Nothing is delivered to your address, and there is nothing to earn back before the first order is profitable.
Keep reading
The rest of the programme
The numbers, the rules and the store type closest to yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are the gateway cities better than Boston proper?
Generally, yes. Chelsea, East Boston, Lynn and Lawrence have far higher concentrations of the store formats and customers this program serves than downtown Boston does.
Do Portuguese-speaking stores work for this?
Yes. The Brazilian corridor through Everett, Somerville and Framingham is substantial and has its own remittance patterns.
Do I need a licence of my own to do this?
Not to act as a serving location for Anytime Capital's platform. Anytime Capital is the registered money services business and carries the compliance programme for the activity. State law varies, so what applies to your specific store is confirmed during onboarding, and nothing here is legal advice.
Is there any equipment to install?
None. The platform runs in a browser on a phone, tablet or the PC already behind your counter. There is no kiosk, no floor space requirement and no monthly platform fee.
How long does it take to serve a customer?
One to two minutes for a first-time customer, because their identity is verified once. Under a minute for everyone after that.
Put a crypto counter in your Boston store
Tell us where the store is and what your customers keep asking for. We will tell you what we can offer at your location.