JET8 launches crypto payments gateway for consumer goods

Santi Corrales
JET8
Published in
3 min readOct 2, 2019

JET8 Social Dev Update — 1st October, 2019

Buy stuff on JET8’s Amazon like Retail and Mobile Data marketplaces

The Engineering team at JET8 is very excited to announce the latest network support technology update for purchasing consumer goods and mobile data services with the J8T Token through the JET8 Wallet Worldwide marketplace!

This ground breaking feature is the result of over a year of Research & Development and is a new milestone for the integration of J8T token and other ERC20 cryptocurrencies onto the mobile commerce services of the JET8 mobile engagement and commerce ecosystem of DENapps.

Any J8T token holder or user of any of JET8’s DENapps or JET8 Wallet can now purchase consumer goods from major retailers worldwide by just selecting the crypto wallet payment gateway option as a payment method. This feature makes JET8 one of the world’s first providers of retail payment solutions and brings a whole R&D phase to its next chapter; Global Scale!

The JET8 Custodial Wallet has been innovating the fintech space and is totally safe. Users avoid the hassle of managing private keys, passwords or sensible data and are immersed into the JET8 ecosystem seamlessly. Users can simply use the biometrics functions on their devices in order to complete transactions.

In addition to the facilities brought to token holders and users worldwide, this groundbreaking feature also allows Brands, Merchants and other product sellers to sell goods and services by accepting payment with crypto tokens. For more digital services and social commerce solutions for Brands, Agencies and Retailers please visit the JET8 Social Technology website at https://jet8.io

A purchase with J8T Token
The “TokenPay” purchase experience using JET8’s MCPG (Mobile Crypto Payment Gateway): newly available on the JET8 Wallet worldwide.

JET8 Wallet keeps evolving

As scheduled, diligent development continues in order to improving the JET8 Wallet functionalities and its connectivity to all DENapps in the JET8 Network. In this last update we have also included the following new fixes and improvements:

  • Shop/Marketplace filters

— Filter by Brands

— Filter by Retailers

— Filter by payment Currency; cashpoints or crypto.

  • Additional Shop/Marketplace categories to help merchants classify and to help users discover new products.
  • OAuth login/linking of DENapps accounts to the JET8 Wallet, eliminating the need for email or SMS second step verifications.
  • Support the latest mobile operating systems: Apple iOS 13 & Google Android 10.
  • V1.0 of the JET8 Social Framework for Multiple ERC20 Mobile Crypto Payment Gateway (“MCPG”).

Get the JET8 Wallet App

If you don’t have the app installed yet get it now at https://wallet.jet8.io or discover new DENapps at https://apps.jet8.io

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