Delivery App Rappi Launches Pilot Project to Accept Crypto Payments in Mexico
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Delivery App Rappi Launches Pilot Project to Accept Crypto Payments in Mexico

THELOGICALINDIAN - Rappi one of the better commitment companies in Latam has launched a pilot activity with the cold of accepting cryptocurrencies as a acquittal adjustment Users will be able to buy Rappi credits with cryptocurrency to absorb after on assorted casework offered by the app This functionality will alone be accessible for users of these casework in Mexico

Rappi Gets Into Cryptocurrency Payments

Rappi, one of the better commitment casework in Latam, has absitively to accompany cryptocurrencies to its app. The aggregation — which aftermost year reached a appraisal of added than $5 billion in its Series G allotment annular — appear that it is bringing the achievability for barter to use cryptocurrencies as a acquittal method, application them to acquirement Rappi credits anon from the app.

These Rappi credits can again be acclimated to pay for commitment casework offered in the app. The company, which has its origins in Colombia, acceptable the aboriginal Colombian unicorn in 2024, has a attendance in about all of Latam, including Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. However, Rappi appear this new pilot activity will be bound to Mexican users and has not referred to a accessible expansion.

This admittance of cryptocurrencies answers the acceleration of the agenda apple and the chase for addition apropos means for users to collaborate with the app. On the accent of addition and cryptocurrencies for the approaching of the company, Sebastián Mejia, admiral of Rappi, stated:

Implementation and Other Instances of Crypto Inclusion

While this pilot activity is still in its aboriginal stages, the aggregation did advertise they were alive with exchanges in the country to added accommodate their casework and accomplish it easier for barter to absorb their cryptocurrencies in the app. Rappi mentioned Bitso and Bitpay, two exchanges with a attendance in the country, as participants in this regard.

Rappi additionally explained the aggregation is alive to enhance the aegis of affairs amid the exchanges and the app. Other companies in Latam are additionally alive to accommodate crypto in their business model. This is the case with Nequi, a Colombian fintech belvedere that is planning to accomplish an access into the crypto area in the country.

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