THELOGICALINDIAN - The creators of the Handcash wallet accept appear a chargeless software developer kit SDK for programmers who appetite to advantage the Bitcoin Cash arrangement into applications and websites The SDK alleged Cashport is an accessible antecedent BCHbased micropayments arrangement for Android operating systems and web book that can be chip into a array of services
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Cashport: A New Software Developer Kit for Bitcoin Cash
Handcash developers accept appear a new apparatus for programmers that allows them to advance bitcoin banknote (BCH) micropayments. The SDK Cashport is a arrangement that uses the Bitcoin Banknote arrangement as a acquittal abuse and connects to the company’s Handcash wallet. Cashport offers one-click onboarding with Handcash wallet users and there are no fees for the account itself, alone the accepted BCH arrangement fee. Additionally, the account works in a non-custodial fashion, which agency the appliance or web account never holds users’ funds. When the aggregation was asked on Reddit if the Cashport SDK was article like Cash ID and the Money Button accumulated for websites, the Handcash team’s artefact designer, Alex Agut, clarified, “that’s one way to attending at it.”
“But [Cashport] is additionally for adaptable apps and amateur — The ambition is to actualize an ecosystem area your money is consistently accessible through bags of apps and games,” Agut abundant on Reddit. “Just one annual — No added deposits or withdrawals, archetype and adhesive or QR codes — Just flows,” the Handcash adumbrative added.
Agut capacity that all of the casework are tethered to the owner’s Handcash wallet and the SDK can additionally be acclimated for developing amateur and adaptable applications. He added states that the apparatus works silently in the background, so the developer can apply on the API and user interactions. Examples would be micropayments on amusing media, in-game money, and a pay-per-minute blazon of model.
“We capital a actual accessible way for developers and businesses to apparatus micropayments with aught bitcoin knowledge,” Agut explained.
Alex Agut: ‘APIs on Any Kind of Interaction or Event You Wish’
Right now the SDK is accessible for Android and web typescript systems, and both are accessible antecedent on Github beneath the accessible accepted MIT License. The Cashport website states that an iOS adaptation of the codebase will additionally be appear in the abreast future. With the onboarding feature, users with the Handcash wallet will be able to admission things with aloof ‘one-click,’ an activity that pushes the Handcash ‘handle’ identification arrangement and the wallet’s abstracts to the developer’s application.
The Handcash developers accept the Cashport arrangement is a abundant basic to monetize user interactions with bitcoin cash. The platform’s creators say that programmers can now focus on architecture affection content. According to the team, developers can go to the Cashport website, access some API keys and apparatus the SDK. After that, “money has never been simpler,” the Handcash developers state.
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