What if paying with Crypto was equally easy and fun to send a meme on X?
In the latest episodes of The Clear Crypto Podcast, Starcware’s Nathan Jefe and Gareth Jenkinson of Cointelagraph sit with Stephana Belik, Growth lead in Pulsar Money, to find out how to find payment in the blockchain digital age, with speed, transparency and dash.
Change web 3 payment
Banciu explains how Pulsar is carrying forward the web3 payment limit with features such as social transfer that allows users to send crypto directly via X, just by tagging a handle.
“You can actually pay super seamless, easy and convenient, and it can also be super funny.”
This episode is cut to deal with a question with mainstream resonance through Crypto Jargon: Why are we not yet using crypto for daily transactions?
“I wish I could say yes, but it would not be a true reflection of the situation of the cases,” Jenkinson admitted whether the crypto is widely used for payment. He pointed to the MasterCard-Linked Crypto card as a stopgap, but says that the real revolution has not yet reached the coffee shop counter.
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For Beliku, the way forward is inherent in reducing fun and basic things. While the founder ideals of Crypto include borderless, permissionless transfer and low fees, she says that onboard the next wave of users will require experiences that are comfortable, social and entertaining.
Their platforms include a “social payment module” that allows users to send crypto directly through X by tagging a handle, a small but powerful step towards the transaction to feel more like communication than banking.
“You can actually send money directly to Twitter,” says Beniyu.
“This is a good use case to show people that yes, with crypto payment you can actually make super seamless, easy and convenient payment.”
But the facility alone is not enough. Banciu says that making crypto fun is important to onboard the next wave of users.
“We all know within the Crypto Space, the whole community which is probably something else, which is quite boring, right?” she adds. “So we said, okay, why not think about the way users onboard, pay them in a fun way?”
For Jenkinson, it is necessary for its legitimacy to make Crypto as usable as a true “medium of exchange”.
“If we are not using cryptocurrency as the medium of exchange, it is not solving one of the main features that make money, money.”
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