Why around half of DedicatedNodes customers pay for servers in crypto

“A regular hosting buyer asks how much a server costs. Our customers ask how many milliseconds it will cost them.”

What happens when your customers earn their revenue on the same blockchain they pay you to help them run?

For most businesses, crypto payments start as a fix. Cards get declined in certain regions, customers keep asking, and eventually someone adds a crypto option at checkout.

DedicatedNodes never needed that fix. The Netherlands-based provider builds bare metal servers for Solana validators, RPC nodes and trading systems. Its customers already live on-chain, so crypto sat at checkout from the first day. Today, around half of DedicatedNodes customers pay in crypto.

We asked CEO Danny Nieuwenhuis why the share is that high, how the setup works on their side, and what comes next.

Key takeaways:

• Around half of customers pay in crypto. Cards cover most of the rest, and bank transfers are rarely used.
• Crypto runs inside the billing system they already had. DedicatedNodes connected through our API, which was easy to implement, settles in euros and holds no crypto treasury of its own.
• Renewals are the next friction point. Crypto cannot be pulled like a card, so DedicatedNodes sees a standing address per client, the idea behind payment channels, as the next step.

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Infrastructure where every millisecond has a price

DedicatedNodes serves a very specific crowd. Its customers run Solana validators, RPC nodes and trading systems, and many of them also run nodes on other chains, such as Hyperliquid.

For this audience, server performance shows up directly in the numbers.

“For them a server is a production system that earns or loses money every slot,” Danny says. “They need bare metal with high clock speeds and fast NVMe storage. They need to sit close to the rest of the network and to have that proximity measured, not promised.”

That is why DedicatedNodes runs its own network under its own autonomous system in Amsterdam, and why every bare metal server includes LocalShred™, the company’s shred stream for Solana. The DedicatedNodes website publishes live latency figures for each of its locations, with the fastest routes to Jito measured at 0.1 ms.

A company this focused on measurable performance tends to apply the same thinking to everything else, including how customers pay.

Crypto at checkout from day one

This is where DedicatedNodes breaks from the usual pattern. Nobody had to ask for crypto.

“We offered it from the start. Our customers earn and hold their revenue on-chain. Asking them to move funds to a bank account just to pay for the servers that produce those funds never made sense to us,” Danny explains. “So crypto was part of checkout from day one, next to card and bank transfer.”

Picture the alternative for a validator operator. Rewards land on-chain. To pay by card, they would first sell, then withdraw to a bank, then wait for the transfer to clear. Each step adds cost and delay to money that was already sitting in the right place.

For Danny, accepting crypto is also a signal.

“It signals that we understand how they operate. A validator operator pays in the same currency their node earns in. When a provider accepts that, the conversation starts on common ground. It tells them we build for their world rather than adapting a generic hosting product to it.”

That common ground shows in the payment mix. Around half of DedicatedNodes customers pay in crypto. For comparison, MVPS.net, a European VPS provider with a much broader audience, sees 24% of its customers pay through CoinGate.

It also matches what we see across our platform. In our Solana payments data report, which covers May 2024 to October 2025, web hosting accounted for 35.5% of all Solana-related payments, more than any other industry. Infrastructure and Solana have been a natural pairing for a while.

Why DedicatedNodes chose CoinGate

“Four things decided it,” Danny says.

“CoinGate’s API was easy to implement in our billing. It settles in euros, so we carry no volatility and need no crypto treasury of our own.”

The other two came down to coverage and regulation.

“It covers the coins and networks our customers actually use, from stablecoins and SOL to Bitcoin on Lightning and Ethereum on its layer twos. And it is a regulated European company, which fits our own position as a European infrastructure provider.”

The regulatory point carries more weight than it might seem. We are authorised under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) by the Bank of Lithuania. For a European infrastructure company settling into a European bank account, that means the payment processor sits inside the same regulatory framework as the rest of its finance stack.

The euro settlement matters just as much. DedicatedNodes sells servers, and it has no interest in running a crypto balance sheet on the side. Customers pay in the currency they hold, and the company receives euros.

A normal payment method on every invoice

DedicatedNodes wanted crypto to sit on an invoice like any other option.

“We wanted crypto to be a normal payment method, not a separate process,” Danny says.

An API implementation connects the DedicatedNodes billing portal to CoinGate, so the flow stays inside a system customers already use.

“A customer opens an invoice, chooses crypto and pays. The payment is confirmed back to the invoice automatically. It took very little work on our side, which is exactly what we wanted from a payment integration.”

For the customer, nothing changes except one more option on the invoice. For the DedicatedNodes team, there is no separate crypto process to maintain.

Removing the Solana memo

One piece of friction did get in the way, and it came from our side.

Until July 2026, every Solana payment through CoinGate went to one shared address. To match a payment to the right order, the customer had to add a memo, a short reference attached to the transaction. Only a limited set of wallets supported adding one, and the address itself sat behind a “scan QR code” step on the payment page.

For DedicatedNodes, that meant some customers had to install a specific wallet just to complete a purchase, which is an odd thing to ask of people who manage wallets professionally. On top of that, a missing or mistyped memo was the main reason a Solana payment could not be matched to its order automatically.

In July, we changed how Solana orders work. Every order now gets its own Solana address, so no memo is needed. The address is also visible on the payment page and easy to copy, instead of hiding behind the QR code.

The DedicatedNodes team noticed the change quickly, and they told us it is already generating positive feedback from their customers.

For a customer base where SOL is one of the most used payment currencies, that is one less reason to leave checkout halfway.

Stablecoins lead, SOL follows

“Crypto is one of our main payment methods and a substantial part of our revenue,” Danny says.

Stablecoins lead the mix at DedicatedNodes, with USDC among the most used.

“SOL follows, which is no surprise given our customer base.”

The stablecoin lead lines up with our own data. In the first half of 2026, USDC became the most-used payment asset on CoinGate at 22.1% of payments, up from 9.3% a year earlier.

So what changed for the business beyond the share itself?

“It removed a barrier for customers all over the world. Someone can find us, order a server and pay within minutes without a card or a bank transfer in between.”

On top of that, crypto brought in a type of customer that would not be there otherwise.

“It also opened the door to customers who deliberately run their operations fully on-chain. For them, crypto payment is not a convenience. It is a requirement for choosing a provider at all.”

For that part of the market, a provider without crypto at checkout simply never makes the shortlist.

The next step: renewals without a checkout

Servers renew every billing period. Our billing system creates a renewal invoice, the customer pays it through CoinGate, and the confirmation marks it paid. On the accounting side, that part works.

“Reconciliation itself runs cleanly. The friction is that crypto cannot be pulled like a card. Every renewal needs the customer to act, so a busy operator can miss a due date for a server they fully intend to keep. A standing address per client is the step that removes that friction.”

This is a limit of crypto itself. A card can be charged on file. A crypto payment has to be sent by whoever holds the funds, every single time.

On top of that, people do not pay on a schedule. Across 1.6 million paid orders we analysed, 68% landed outside business hours and nearly a quarter at the weekend. An operator running a fleet of servers across time zones will not always be at the screen when an invoice comes due.

Danny’s customers would rather pay the way they run everything else.

“Our customers run automated systems, and many would rather pay the same way. A dedicated address per client lets them send funds straight from their own wallet or treasury whenever it suits them. The payment is matched to their account without anyone opening a checkout. That fits a customer who manages a fleet of servers far better than one checkout per invoice.”

That is what payment channels are built for. Each client gets a permanent deposit address they save once and send to whenever they need. We detect every deposit, attribute it to the right client and notify the merchant’s system through the API, with settlement in crypto or converted to fiat.

Advice for infrastructure and Web3 companies

We closed by asking Danny what he would tell another infrastructure or Web3 company that is weighing crypto payments.

“Look at where your customers keep their money. If it is on-chain, accept crypto and treat it as a first-class payment method rather than an afterthought. Use a processor that settles in your own currency, so you sell infrastructure and do not end up speculating. And make it as easy as paying by card, because that is the standard your customers will measure it against.”

FAQ

Can a hosting company accept crypto payments in its own billing system?

Yes. With an easy API implementation, crypto becomes a payment method on your invoices, and a confirmed payment is recorded against the invoice.

Does accepting crypto mean holding crypto?

No. You can settle in fiat instead. DedicatedNodes settles in euros and holds no crypto treasury of its own, so price movements stay on the customer’s side of the transaction.

Can crypto renewals be charged automatically like a card?

No. Crypto payments are sent by the customer, so there is no stored payment method to charge. Payment channels reduce the friction by giving each client a permanent address they can pay into whenever it suits them, without opening a new checkout.

Which cryptocurrencies do Solana infrastructure customers pay with?

At DedicatedNodes, stablecoins lead and SOL follows. We accept SOL on Solana and USDC on several networks, Solana included. The full list is on our supported currencies page.

Built for the way customers hold their money

DedicatedNodes builds for people who earn on-chain, so it let them pay on-chain from the very first day. Around half of them do.

The setup behind that is deliberately plain. Crypto sits inside the invoices the company already used, settles in euros and needs no crypto treasury. Removing the Solana memo took away one more obstacle at checkout, and the next one on the list is renewals, where a standing address per client lets operators pay the way their systems already work.

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