Shopify launches suite of blockchain commerce tools for merchants

Crypto-friendly e-commerce elephantine Shopify has launched a suite of blockchain commerce tools to heighten the idiosyncratic acquisition of their web3-focused stores hosted by the platform.

Announcing the determination via Twitter connected Feb. 9, Shopify blockchain squad decorator @ryancreatescopy noted that “we've launched immoderate caller tools to assistance you buidl tokengating apps for Shopify merchants.”

In particular, expanded crypto wallet link features and “tokengating” exertion programming interface (API) tools person been highlighted. The second has been successful aboriginal entree beta entree mode since June 2022 and was antecedently lone disposable to a prime fig of merchants.

With tokegating, each applicable Shopify merchants tin present acceptable up their stores to dictate which token holders tin and cannot summation entree to exclusive products, NFT drops and benefits.

The instrumentality verifies idiosyncratic eligibility via their connected wallet, and is being touted arsenic a useful mode for NFT Merchants to reward definite users oregon adhd exclusivity to circumstantial products.

tokegating example: Shopify

In presumption of expanded crypto wallet support, Shopify has integrated with the Sign-In with Ethereum SIWE protocol led by the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) and the Ethereum Foundation.

SIWE fundamentally enables unafraid idiosyncratic sign-ins and authentication of Ethereum accounts and ENS Domains without giving distant backstage identifiers to 3rd parties specified arsenic names, telephone numbers and residential addresses.

The taxable of backstage idiosyncratic accusation has been a sour spot for Shopify successful the past. In April 2022, a radical of disgruntled users filed a class-action suit against the firm and hardware wallet supplier Ledger concerning a hefty leak of idiosyncratic information that stemmed from the duo backmost successful 2020.

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ENS Labs assemblage advocator @sadaf.eth highlighted the SIWE integration with Shopify via Twitter connected Feb. 9, and linked to developer documents explaining however to physique the instrumentality into Shopify stores, overmuch to the delight of immoderate from the Ethereum community.

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“The statementGenerator prop allows you to customize the connection displayed successful a Sign-In with Ethereum message. The relation receives the code of the wallet that has connected, allowing you to grow and customize your connection statements to amended suit your brand,” the papers reads.

At this stage, erstwhile a merchant hooks up the SIWE diagnostic connected Shopify wallet connect, it appears that users volition beryllium capable to click a “sign-in with Ethereum” fastener to link their addresses via SIWE’s partnered intermediaries specified arsenic Coinbase, Fortmatic, WalletConnect, Portis and Torus.