One of the world’s largest e-commerce marketplaces, Shopify, will add support for decentralized payment protocol Solana Pay. Users of millions of stores will be able to pay with stablecoins.
Solana Foundation’s director of business development and strategic partnerships, Josh Fried, tells us that the initial plan is to add support for USDC steiblcoin as part of the integration. The use of such stable coins is logical, as it is important for store owners to sell goods for a fixed cost.
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Sophie Berger covers EU regulation and policy from Brussels. With a Master's in European Affairs from Sciences Po and five years at Politico Europe, she tracks MiCA implementation, ECB digital-euro work and ESMA enforcement. Sophie is fluent in French, German and English, and has interviewed three EU commissioners on record. Her policy briefs are read across the BTCNews newsroom every morning.