Is 2022 the year of NFTs that can evolve and change over time or should NFT data be immutable? Cointelegraph spoke about the nonfungible token, or NFT, market with Halsey Minor, CEO of the NFT publishing platform provider Vivid Labs. Vivid Labs offers the VIVID NFT platform that allows creators to build NFT marketplaces on…
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On Tuesday, the Atlanta-based cryptocurrency payments company Bitpay announced the Israeli software company Wix has enabled its Software as a service (SaaS) e-commerce product to accept crypto-asset payments. The integration will allow Wix merchants to accept 12 different cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, dogecoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, litecoin, and stablecoins as well. SaaS Platform Wix Implements…
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Sri Lanka’s leading online retailer, Kapruka, has unveiled plans to introduce support for cryptocurrency payments. The news comes as the South Asian country intensifies efforts to adopt legislation tailored to regulate its blockchain space and attract investments from the crypto industry. Kapruka to Launch Cryptocurrency Payments Within Weeks Kapruka (Kapruka.com), a major e-commerce platform in…
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Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has upped its support for the country’s central bank digital currency. JD.com has been using China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DCEP, system to pay the salaries of some employees since January. The e-commerce firm revealed the news on Sunday while announcing its participation in the one-year DCEP trial show at the…
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True or not, the timing of the announcement is suspect given many companies’ apparent fondness for pranking customers on April 1. Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company by sales, has said it will be accepting Bitcoin payments in what many suspect is an April Fools’ Day prank. In an announcement on Twitter today at 11:30 pm…
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Small businesses can now accept cryptocurrency payments using OLB’s point-of-sale technology. OLB Group (OLB), a New York-based e-commerce merchant service provider, is making it easier for businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments. OLB’s more than 8,500 merchants are now able to accept Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), USDC and DAI at the point-of-sale through the company’s OmniSoft…
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Blockchain can play a role in solving the profitability challenges of content generation industry giants like TikTok. Chinese content generation platform TikTok, a video-sharing app that has been called the fastest-growing social networking service in history, has been in the spotlight since early 2019 and now surpasses 800 million users. Despite the fact that the…
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The third decade of the 21st century will make cryptocurrency the main payment method worldwide because of its benefits over fiat. The world has been slowly recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, while some countries are bracing themselves for a potential second wave, but the economic downturn in many fields is imminent. This has spurred debates…
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World’s top ecommerce firm Amazon filed a patent for a blockchain system that tracks goods as they move on the supply chain. World’s top ecommerce firm, Amazon, filed a patent for a blockchain system that tracks goods as they move on the supply chain. Amazon’s patent — dated May 26 — describes a “distributed ledger…
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Shopify sellers can now accept crypto via digital asset payment processor, CoinPayments. A partnership with crypto payment processor CoinPayments means bolstered digital asset payment compatibility for Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify. “Shopify is a natural fit for us,” CoinPayments CEO Jason Butcher told Cointelegraph via email, adding: As they look to bring new features to their merchant base…
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