Epic Chain

Epic Chain, which brands its consumer product simply as Epic and describes itself as "the travel layer for crypto," operates an online travel booking platform aimed at cryptocurrency holders. The service covers more than 2 million hotels worldwide, including Marriott, Aman and Hilton properties, plus flights across 180 countries, with inventory sourced directly from over 100 wholesale travel suppliers. The company markets savings of up to 30% versus retail booking sites such as Booking.com, together with a best-price guarantee.

Bookings can be paid for with more than 200 cryptocurrencies as well as conventional methods including Visa, Mastercard and Apple Pay. Every booking can earn up to 8% cashback paid in XRP. Holders of at least $10,000 in the company's EPIC token gain access to Epic Concierge, a dedicated travel service that handles trip planning and sourcing of further discounted rates at no additional cost. New users are offered a $25 credit toward a first booking.

The organisation also maintains a token-holder governance layer: the Epic Chain DAO lets qualifying members (holding a minimum amount of EPIC in their wallet) vote on proposals shaping the project. A separate swap portal was used to migrate holders of the legacy ERN token to EPIC; that swap has since been closed. The company additionally publishes a content hub of travel guides, destination rankings and articles on spending specific crypto assets through the platform. Third-party business directories additionally describe Epic Chain as a blockchain services company pursuing a real-world asset ecosystem, listing a consumer RWA product called Fanable and an XRP-based RWA platform launched in August 2025.

Founding story

Epic was founded as Ethernity, a Web3 digital asset company whose work included NFT collections and digital asset advisory for the United States Space Force, Toys R Us, Lionel Messi and Shaquille O'Neal; the team subsequently applied that network and execution model to building a travel layer for crypto.

Business model

Epic operates a consumer travel marketplace: it buys or brokers hotel and flight inventory from more than 100 wholesale suppliers and resells it to crypto holders at prices it positions below retail online travel agencies, accepting payment in over 200 cryptocurrencies as well as cards and Apple Pay. The EPIC token is central to the model, gating benefits such as up to 8% XRP cashback on bookings and, at holdings of $10,000 or more, a dedicated concierge service, while also serving as the voting asset for the Epic Chain DAO.

Revenue is implied to come from the margin between wholesale travel inventory pricing and the discounted retail prices offered to customers; a third-party directory estimates annual revenue at under $1M as of July 2026.

Traction

The platform advertises access to 2M+ hotels and 200+ accepted cryptocurrencies. The EPIC token had a market capitalisation and fully diluted valuation of about $11.5M, 24-hour trading volume of roughly $4.44M, a circulating and maximum supply of 33.6M tokens, and trades across 27 exchanges and 30 markets, with an all-time high of $3.20 on 2025-08-20 and an all-time low of $0.1917 on 2026-05-29. A third-party directory estimates around 19 employees and annual revenue under $1M as of July 2026.

Latest developments

The token swap from the legacy ERN token to EPIC has concluded following a DAO vote, with the community citing security risk from a wallet tied to the Wintermute hack holding over 200,000 stolen ERN, an arbitrage loophole from continued ERN trading on exchanges such as Coinbase and OKX, and a desire to simplify operations around EPIC. The company states it raised $20M to pivot to travel and is running a $25 first-booking promotion. Binance added a monitoring tag to EPIC, coinciding with a reported 17% price drop.