How to pay at major brands with your Coinbase Wallet and Bidali
There isn’t a day that goes by that I am still frustrated by how hard and inaccessible finance is. While we’ve had modern digital banking and e-commerce for 20+ years, it is incredibly frustrating that there are still so many people around the world that can’t access a bank account or even buy online.
This is the promise of what Bitcoin created — permissionless open, global banking. That cryptocurrency could enable trustless, peer-to-peer payments. An extraordinary concept that could lift millions out of poverty, close wealth gaps, and increase the GDP of the world.
While transferring value peer-to-peer has been possible for a while, it’s usually when someone receives their first cryptocurrency they ask, “what can I do with it?”. For a long time, outside of speculation, the reality has been “not much”. And even recently when we’ve started to see cryptocurrency going more mainstream, it hasn’t been cost effective or necessarily a delightful experience.
At Bidali, it’s been our main goal to change that. To make it as easy to send money as it is to send a photo. As a result, we’ve been working really hard over the last few years to enable people to convert one store of value to another seamlessly and spend at brands they really care about.
At first, that started with just a handful of businesses, but we’ve now since expanded to enabling people to buy gift cards, mobile phone and data plans, and even pay bills at over 2,000 business across the entire world. 🌎
Over the last 2 years we’ve been building the core infrastructure to enable any business in the world to accept next generation digital currency payments, and to enable people to spend from any mobile wallet that supports these emerging payment technologies.
Coinbase and Bidali have very similar missions:
to create a more open financial system
So we feel like this is a perfect match! ❤️
I want to show you how you can combine both companies’ products to spend almost anywhere in the world.
Buying from top brands from Coinbase Wallet
All it takes is four easy steps! 🙌
Step 1: Download Coinbase Wallet
Simply go to https://wallet.coinbase.com/ and download it for iOS or Android.
Step 2: Load Up Your Wallet
If you don’t already have a balance, sign up for Coinbase, buy some crypto, and withdraw to your own wallet.
Step 3: Add Bidali as a dApp
Go to the in-app browser and paste in https://commerce.bidali.com/dapp. Make sure to bookmark afterwards by hitting the … in the top right corner!
Step 4: Pay!
That’s it! You’re done! 💥
Now, with just a few taps you can now buy gift cards from thousands of top brands around the world including Uber, Amazon, Starbucks and more!
Note: Because of how dApps work you can only spend ETH and ERC20s via the Bidali dApp. If you’d like to see a native integration to support all assets, let Coinbase know!
About Bidali
Bidali is a modern payments company that is using blockchain technology to help save you money and help businesses increase sales and eliminate fraud with next generation payments and more flexible gift cards. Learn more.
