What if payment to crypto is as easy and as fun as sending a meme to X?
In the latest phase of The Clear Crypto Podcast, Starkware Nathan Jeffay and Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson sit with Stefana Banciu, growth led to pulsar money, to explore how blockchains bring payments to digital age, with speed, transparency and a dash of perfection.
Changing web3 payments
Banciu releases how Pulsar is pushing the border of web3 payments with features such as social shifts that allow users to send crypto directly through X, simply by tagging a handle.
“You can really have super seamless, easy and convenient payments, and it can be too much fun.”
The episode is cut through the crypto jargon to deal with a question with mainstream resonance: why are we not using crypto for day -to -day transactions?
“I would like to say yes, but that would not be a real state of the state of activities,” Jenkinson admitted when asked if crypto was widely used for payments. He pointed to the cards linked to Mastercard as a stop, but said the real revolution had not yet reached the coffee counter.
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For Banciu, the forward path lies in bridging fun and foundation. While the founding ideals of crypto include infinite, unauthorized shifts and low fees, he said riding on the next wave of users will need experiences that are easy to understand, social and entertaining.
Their platform includes a “social payment module” that gives users to send crypto directly through X by tainting a handle, a small but strong step toward making transactions more like communication than banking.
“You can really send funds directly to Twitter,” Banciu said.
“This is a cool case of use to show people yes, in crypto payments you can really have super seamless, easy and convenient payments.”
But only comfort is not enough. Banciu said making crypto fun is key to onboarding the next wave of users.
“We all know in the crypto space, the whole community here for anything else than payments, which is a bit boring, right?” He added. “So we said, ok. Why not think of a way to ride users, make them pay in a fun way?”
For Jenkinson, making crypto available as a true “medium of exchange” is essential to its legitimacy.
“If we do not use cryptocurrencies as a medium of exchange, it will not solve one of the key features that make money, money.”
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