Tag: Payments

Buyers on OpenSea, the world’s leading NFT marketplace, can soon pay for non-fungible tokens without having cryptocurrency – with a credit card, debit card, Google Pay or Apple Pay. This move, which could bring in more newcomers to the NFT space, followed after the announcement of Solana NFT integration. The move comes through a partnership…

Alchemy Pay, a crypto payment provider, partnered with GrePay, a global acquirer and payments provider, to expand its services to global markets, including the UAE, India, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. With over 100 local payment channels, GrePay processes over 200,000 transactions per day. Using these channels, Alchemy Pay aims to connect crypto service…

Fate certainly has a sense of irony. While Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are engaged in an armed conflict, their citizens have rushed to explore cryptocurrencies. For Ukrainians, it is a way to bring closer the victory, but for citizens of Russia and Belarus, it is a desperate attempt to break away from their severely compromised…

An advisory group of the Arab Monetary Fund has listed RippleNet as a direct alternative to SWIFT in its guide for Arab central banks. The Arab Regional Fintech Working Group has recently released a “Practical Guide” for Arab central banks looking to understand the nuances of the burgeoning digital assets market. The working group advised…

Smartphone manufacturer Apple Inc. announced a new Tap-to-Pay feature on the Apple Pay app. Stripe will be the first company to offer Tap-to-Pay to their business clients. The merchant will need to have at least an iPhone XS and maintain different payment methods, including cryptocurrencies. According to a press release on February 8, Apple announced…

Solana Labs, the developer team behind the Solana blockchain, announced Solana Pay, a new point-of-sale (POS) payment product that lets merchants accept crypto payments with near-instant finality and affordable fees. The payment solution is billed to be a game-changer that will help merchants interact directly with their customers by rewarding customer loyalty in a unique…