ShippedQ4 2025

The first line of code

  • September 30, 2025: the first commit
  • First website, with email that lands in the inbox
  • Merchant accounts with device verification
  • Hosted checkout, invoices and a wallet manager

ShippedQ1 2026

Payments go live

  • Learning hub with free guides for merchants
  • Password reset and two factor authentication
  • Live crypto payments, straight to your own wallet
  • API access with rotating keys, plans and dark mode

ShippedQ2 2026

From working to complete

  • Ethereum and ERC-20 stablecoins
  • Payment links, no code needed
  • WooCommerce and WordPress plugins
  • Shareable proof of payment receipts
  • Crypto income and tax reports
  • Passkeys and a rebuilt dashboard

ShippedQ3 2026

CryptoGate becomes GriffNode

  • New name, same product, nothing broken
  • Official SDKs on npm, PyPI, RubyGems and crates.io
  • Public status page with 90 days of uptime history
  • Checkout never quotes a stale price
  • Polish site and Polish tax reports

NowQ4 2026

Faster, sturdier, and in store

  • Shipped: a new design, instant payment detection and webhook retries for 24 hours
  • Shipped: IP allowlisting and Continue with Google
  • Shipped: our WooCommerce and WordPress plugins in the official WordPress.org directory
  • Building: point of sale in the browser, with a printed payment confirmation
  • Shipped: recurring payment requests, emailed to your customers every period, with webhooks

PlannedQ1 2027

Ready for the counter

  • Cashier accounts: staff take payments without seeing settings, wallets or keys
  • Exports to Polish accounting software: inFakt, wFirma and Fakturownia

PlannedQ2 2027

More shops, in your pocket

  • PrestaShop and Shoper plugins
  • A merchant mobile app: payment alerts and point of sale on your phone

PlannedH2 2027

Cheaper stablecoin payments

  • USDC and USDT on low fee networks, where a payment costs cents instead of dollars

Exploring2028

Built for chains and counters

  • Many locations under one account, with reports per location
  • Integration with online fiscal cash registers in Poland
  • Lightning for Bitcoin: payments in seconds, for cents
  • A dedicated GriffNode terminal, if point of sale takes off

Exploring2029

Across Europe

  • More languages and EU markets, in the order merchants ask for them
  • Tax reports for the local rules of each new country

Exploring2030

Infrastructure

  • Payments for platforms and marketplaces: one integration, every seller paid straight to their own wallet
  • Enterprise and self hosted editions
  • The goal: the default way European businesses accept crypto, with nobody in the middle holding the money

The further right, the less certain: near quarters are commitments, later years are direction. Past quarters match our changelog.

Something you need that is not here?

Email [email protected] and tell us. What merchants ask for moves up.