Crypto Comes to Shopify! Merchants Rejoice or Panic? 🎉💸

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Crypto Comes to Shopify! Merchants Rejoice or Panic? 🎉💸

Shopify Merchant with a Big Smile & a Mountain of Crypto Money

What to Know (Hold onto Your Hats!):

  • USDC stablecoins are about to invade Shopify’s universe—like a financial alien invasion! 🛸
  • This nifty little plan aims to make international shopping easier than convincing your grandma to use a smartphone.

Breaking news — Shopify (SHOP) is jumping aboard the crypto train, bringing stablecoin payments to its merchants—parading onto Coinbase’s (COIN) Ethereum-powered Base network, because what could possibly go wrong? 🚀🤪

First stop: June 12—only the brave early birds get the crypto worm, but fear not, the rest of you will have your turn later this year! The plan? Turn transactions into a global fiesta where local currencies are swapped faster than a magician pulling rabbits out of hats—without those pesky foreign fees. And wait for it—shopkeepers might get a shiny 1% cashback if customers pay in USDC. Cha-ching! 💰🎩

Stablecoins—those digital tokens that pretend to be worth something—are exploding faster than a fireworks factory, growing by 54% year-on-year! And big shots like PayPal and Grab are jumping on the bandwagon, because who doesn’t want to pay in digital magic? ✨🔮

All of this is powered by an open-source payments protocol baked by Coinbase and Shopify—think of it as the Swiss Army knife of payments—supporting taxes, refunds, and even delayed captures, all seamlessly integrated into your order system. Now, that’s what I call “easy as pie,” or should I say “easy as crypto”! 🥧⚙️

Shopify picked Base because it’s cheap, fast, and secure—like a vault guarded by a dragon—but with better technology. Their goal? Make crypto payments as normal as your grandma’s knitting club, minus the confusion and the usual fire alarms. 🔥🧙‍♂️

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2025-06-12 22:34