You Won’t Believe How Crypto Payments Are Taking Over Asia! 😲💸

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What to know:

  • KuCoin’s merchant service, in a fit of technological ambition, now urges users to embrace the abyss of mobile crypto transactions. Dostoevsky himself might have pondered: “Is this progress, or merely another layer of existential confusion?”
  • They begin their experiment in the “high growing Asian markets”—as if the rest of us are but spectators in a grand drama, waiting for our cue.
  • At the dawn of this year, KuCoin Pay emerged, inviting merchants to integrate it and thus surrender to the relentless march of cryptocurrency payments. One can almost hear Raskolnikov muttering, “What is money, but a symbol of our own torment?”

In the shadowy corridors of finance, KuCoin’s merchant service seeks to deepen its grip, offering users the chance to complete mobile transactions with cryptocurrency. The world, it seems, is ever more eager to pay for its bread and suffering with digital tokens.

With a flourish worthy of a Russian novel, KuCoin Pay has enlisted AEON—no, not the eternal recurrence, but a payment protocol—to allow users to pay for goods and services online and in-store using bitcoin, ether, and those stablecoins that promise stability in a world that offers none. USDT and USDC: Dostoevsky would have laughed, or wept.

The service, like a feverish idea spreading through Petersburg’s alleys, is rolling out across “high-growing Asian markets,” with plans to expand further. A KuCoin spokesperson, perhaps haunted by telegrams and telegrams past, confirmed this to CoinDesk.

Like all crypto firms—those modern-day dreamers—KuCoin ponders how best to accelerate adoption. They wish for users to spend cryptocurrency in daily life, as if this will finally fill the void. But can one truly buy meaning at the point-of-sale?

From its perch in Seychelles (a setting Dostoevsky might have found suspiciously sunny), KuCoin unveiled KuCoin Pay at the year’s start. Merchants may now integrate it and enable cryptocurrency payments. The partnership with AEON is meant to lure users with promises of faster and more secure mobile payments across all major blockchains. Faster! More secure! And yet, as Ivan Karamazov might say, “Who will pay for our souls?” 😏🪙

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2025-05-20 12:04