Key Takeaway: Previously, if a customer uses a Crypto.com Visa card to pay for anything, their digital currency held in a cryptocurrency wallet had to be converted to a fiat currency. The cryptocurrency wallet deposited traditional fiat currency into a bank account set to be wired to Visa at the end of the day to settle transactions.
Visa's move meant that it now uses the Ethereum blockchain to strip out the need to convert digital currency into traditional money for the transaction to be settled. The firm partnered with digital asset bank Anchorage to oversee the first payment, with Crypto.com sending USD Coin directly to Visa’s Ethereum address at Anchorage.
Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. In other words, the vision is to create a world computer that anyone can build applications in a decentralized manner; while all states and data are distributed and publicly accessible. Ethereum supports smart contracts in which developers can write code in order to program digital value. Examples of decentralized apps (dapps) that are built on Ethereum includes token, non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance apps, lending protocol, decentralized exchanges, and much more.
Visa's move meant that it now uses the Ethereum blockchain to strip out the need to convert digital currency into traditional money for the transaction to be settled. The firm partnered with digital asset bank Anchorage to oversee the first payment, with Crypto.com sending USD Coin directly to Visa’s Ethereum address at Anchorage.
Ethereum is a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. In other words, the vision is to create a world computer that anyone can build applications in a decentralized manner; while all states and data are distributed and publicly accessible. Ethereum supports smart contracts in which developers can write code in order to program digital value. Examples of decentralized apps (dapps) that are built on Ethereum includes token, non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance apps, lending protocol, decentralized exchanges, and much more.