D-Wave Quantum Inc. and Satispay announced that the companies have built a quantum-hybrid application designed to optimize customer rewards initiatives. Using D-Wave's constrained quadratic model (CQM) hybrid solver, the application showed an improvement of 50% in customer rewards programs for the same amount of budget, thus identifying more effective approaches to Satispay's rewards programs and efforts to increase membership to the revolutionary and independent payment network. As a testament to its potential business value, Satispay plans to transition the quantum-hybrid application into production, with internal teams expected to use it weekly.

The work between D-Wave and Satispay comes at a time when Satispay adoption is on the rise in countries such as Italy and France, with consumers and businesses alike looking for a seamless, secure and easy way to send, receive and spend money. The CQM hybrid solver is available in the Leap(TM) real-time quantum cloud service, which can be accessed here.