BTC, ETH, USDT (on Ethereum, Tron, Solana, BNB, TON and more), USDC, XMR, SOL, LTC, BNB, DOGE, TRX, NEAR, TON — 30+ networks total. The quote locks before you send and the rate you see is the rate you get.
Buy Ole & Steen Gift Cards with Crypto
Buy Ole & Steen gift cards with bitcoin, ether, USDT, monero and 30+ other cryptos. Redeemable at Ole & Steen bakery locations across the United States — pastries, smørrebrød, coffee, the cinnamon social.
What Ole & Steen sells
Ole & Steen is the Danish bakery chain — the one Copenhageners call Lagkagehuset back home. In the US, the storefronts in New York City run on rye sourdough, cardamom-laced cinnamon social (the spiral pastry that built the brand’s reputation), smørrebrød open sandwiches, and proper drip coffee. A gift card pays for breakfast meetings in Bryant Park, a Saturday pastry box for the office, or the kind of lunch that involves a slice of rugbrød and a herring topping you can’t get anywhere else in Manhattan.
The card redeems at participating Ole & Steen locations in the United States. It’s a stored-value balance for in-store purchases — pastries, breads, hot drinks, lunch plates, and the take-home loaves.
Why pay with crypto
Coffee runs and lunch tabs aren’t where most people expect to spend BTC or USDT, and that’s exactly the point. If your treasury sits in stablecoins, or you’re paid in ETH, or you keep a long-term XMR position, an Ole & Steen card is a clean way to convert a slice of it into something you actually use this week without touching a centralized exchange or filing another withdrawal.
You send crypto. uSwap delivers the gift code to your inbox. No bank rail, no card network, no exchange account in the middle. The crypto-side fee is 0% — the spend side carries the small retail markup that funds the engine.
How the swap works under the hood
Pick the network you want to pay from. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Monero, Tron, Litecoin, USDT on any of its chains, USDC, BNB, TON, DOGE, NEAR — anything across the 30+ supported networks. The quote locks before you send. The address you get is persistent — one address handles every future swap from this device, so the second Ole & Steen card you buy next month uses the same bookmark.
When your deposit confirms, uSwap routes it to the gift-card desk and emails you a redemption code. The whole flow finishes inside a single page.
Privacy and account requirements
There’s no uSwap account. No email gate to start a quote, no KYC on the crypto leg, no wallet connection that hands over your address book. You provide a delivery email so the code has somewhere to land, and that’s the only data the flow needs.
For users paying in Monero, the privacy story carries end-to-end on the crypto side — XMR in, gift code out, no on-chain trail tying your wallet to a US storefront purchase. The redemption itself happens at the Ole & Steen counter like any other gift card.
Recovery if a swap drifts
Volatile markets move quotes. If yours slips outside the locked window, uSwap doesn’t silently consume the deposit. You get a recovery panel: take the new market rate, hold and wait for the quote to come back, or refund to a fresh address you control. Three buttons. You decide. That’s the difference between a swap engine and a black box — when something goes sideways on a $50 pastry card, you still own the funds.
Who buys this card
Crypto-paid remote workers in NYC who treat the West Village or Bryant Park locations as a second office. Long-term holders who want to spend a little without realizing a taxable swap through an exchange. Treasury managers at small DAOs comping breakfast for a hackathon. Anyone who keeps a self-custodied stack and prefers their morning coffee paid for in BTC instead of fiat that had to travel through three intermediaries to get there.