How crypto payments can become the new ‘tap-and-go’ — Pulsar co-founder

What if paying with crypto was arsenic casual and arsenic amusive arsenic sending a meme connected X?

In the latest occurrence of The Clear Crypto Podcast, StarkWare’s Nathan Jeffay and Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson beryllium down with Stefana Banciu, maturation pb astatine Pulsar Money, to research however blockchain is bringing payments into the integer age, with speed, transparency and a dash of playfulness.

Transforming Web3 payments

Banciu lays retired however Pulsar is pushing the frontier of Web3 payments with features similar societal transfers that let users to nonstop crypto straight done X, simply by tagging a handle. 

“You tin really person ace seamless, casual and convenient payments, and it tin besides beryllium ace fun.”

The occurrence cuts done the crypto jargon to tackle a question with mainstream resonance: Why aren’t we utilizing crypto for mundane transactions yet?

“I privation I could accidental yes, but that wouldn’t beryllium a existent reflection of the authorities of affairs,” Jenkinson admits erstwhile asked if crypto is wide utilized for payments. He points to Mastercard-linked crypto cards arsenic a stopgap, but says the existent gyration hasn’t yet reached the java store counter.

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For Banciu, the way guardant lies successful bridging amusive and fundamentals. While crypto’s founding ideals see borderless, permissionless transfers and debased fees, she says onboarding the adjacent question of users volition necessitate experiences that are intuitive, societal and entertaining.

Their level includes a “social payments module” that lets users nonstop crypto straight done X by tagging a handle, a tiny but almighty measurement toward making transactions consciousness much similar connection than banking.

“You tin really nonstop funds straight connected Twitter,” Banciu says.

 “This is simply a chill usage lawsuit to showcase radical that yes, with crypto payments you tin really person ace seamless, casual and convenient payments.”

But convenience unsocial isn’t enough. Banciu says making crypto amusive is cardinal to onboarding the adjacent question of users.

“We each cognize wrong the crypto space, the full assemblage that is present for possibly thing other than payments, which is rather boring, right?” she adds. “So we said, OK, wherefore not deliberation of a mode to onboard users, marque them bash payments successful a amusive way?”

For Jenkinson, making crypto usable arsenic a existent “medium of exchange” is indispensable to its legitimacy.

“If we’re not utilizing cryptocurrencies arsenic a mean of exchange, past it’s not solving 1 of the halfway characteristics that makes money, money.”

To perceive the afloat speech connected The Clear Crypto Podcast,  perceive to the afloat occurrence connected Cointelegraph’s Podcasts page, Apple Podcasts oregon Spotify. And don’t hide to cheque retired Cointelegraph’s afloat lineup of different shows! 

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