Crypto.com Visa card now integrated with Apple Pay Tuesday, 27 Feb 2024 8:39 pm
In exciting news for fans and current holders of the Crypto.com Visa Card, the company has today announced integration with Apple Pay - a much anticipated and desired customer need. Good stuff! Especially as we enter a fully fledged bull market. Some of the things to expect are the ability to make contactless purchases using Face ID or Touch ID. Bear in mind this is only available for EU customers at this moment in time. Fancy getting your hands on one? Sign up for Crypto.com's card and take advantage of this new integration... Read the full newsflash
WorldPay and VISA now work with Solana Blockchain Tuesday, 5 Sep 2023 8:12 pm
The smart money seems to be finding their way into Solana (SOL). The private equity company GTCR acquired 55% stake in the payment processor WorldPay earlier this year, with Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) as the other major stakeholder. Today, Visa announced that they work with WorldPay and Nuvei to accept USDC stablecoin over the Solana network. Earlier, only USDC payments through the more expensive Ethereum Network was supported. This could be major positive news for Solana reaching mainstream consumers and investors, that are looking for a fast and affordable blockchain and native coin. Solana (SOL) was up over 4.6% following the news from VISA, while Bitcoin (BTC) is down 0.6% for the day and ETH is up a modest 0.2%. Is the next step an increasing amount of Solana casinos, following rather high gas fees for transfers... Read the full newsflash
Tether transactions volume outpaces both Visa and Mastercard Sunday, 15 Jan 2023 4:01 pm
The biggest stablecoin in the world, Tether (UDST), has surprised many in the traditional finance space by outpacing both Mastercard and Visa when it comes to sheer volume of transactions settled. 2022 saw Tether process $18.2tn, with Mastercard and Visa weighing in at $14.1tn and $7.7tn respectively. Want to enter the crypto marker with a fiat-backed stablecoin? You can't go far wrong with USDT. Buy it by signing up for MEXC Global now!
Crypto.com granted to issue their own Visa cards Wednesday, 21 Dec 2022 3:22 pm
Just like Wirex and payment processor Simplex, the global Crypto.com (see review) have been accepted as a Visa principal member in EU. They are now granted to issue their own black cards (Obsidian), along with the frosted and icy white, green, ruby steel and midnight blue visa cards. If you are not a customer yet and want to get up to 5% cashback on... Read the full newsflash
Visa to enable auto payments for Ethereum? Tuesday, 20 Dec 2022 1:22 pm
In a new development for the payments giant Visa, strong rumors are circulating about Ether owners being able to set up auto payments. What's noteworthy is that these would come directly from their own self-custodial wallets... Read the full newsflash