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On February 28, Gocrypto CEO Dejan Roljic revealed the payment gateway has officially onboarded 1,000 merchant locations during a recent company update that expanded upon the firmâs growth. Roljic also explained Gocrypto now has several locations in five countries and the company recently started expanding into South America in November 2019. The Latin American expansion means Gocrypto will be open in 13 new markets and the team hopes to onboard as many stores in the region as possible.
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1,000 Locations and International Expansion
The payment gateway Gocrypto has been making strides toward cryptocurrency adoption and this week the firmâs CEO Dejan Roljic announced the team has onboarded 1,000 locations worldwide. News.Bitcoin.com first reported on Gocrypto in June 2018, when the business helped create a âgenuine Bitcoin Cityâ within the confines of Sloveniaâs largest shopping center.
Slovenia is Gocryptoâs home base and after the launch of Bitcoin City, the company continued to make headway onboarding merchants throughout the country. Last year, news.Bitcoin.com explained that Slovenia has the most BCH-accepting physical locations worldwide and this was fueled by Gocryptoâs efforts. Roljicâs CEO update on Friday not only announced that Gocrypto has captured 1,000 locations worldwide, but the firm has been expanding internationally.
âWe entered Croatia in May 2019 and continued our expansion to Switzerland, Hungary and Bulgaria,â Roljic wrote. âGocrypto is also available for customers in the United Kingdom, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, and Portugal.â
Gocrypto is responsible for a massive amount of physical merchants in Slovenia and Croatia. The map here stems from Bitcoin.comâs Bitcoin Cash Map (Map.Bitcoin.com) which shows all the bitcoin cash-accepting merchants worldwide. Gocryptoâs payment gateway accepts a few cryptocurrencies (BCH, BTC, ETH) and the companyâs GoC token as a payment option.
Roljic further highlighted that Gocrypto is now present in South America and the company recently partnered with Xpay.cash. â[The startup Xpay] is a partner provider of easy crypto payments [and is] successfully growing its presence in Columbia and Venezuela,â Roljicâs update explained. â150 locations strong, they are also planning on expanding to other South American countries.â The Gocrypto CEO said that now that the firm has legal approval in the region, the company plans to âboost these markets with a systematic approach.â Roljic stated:
Our SWAT mobile sales teams will open up to 13 new markets; in each, the goal is to onboard 20â50 stores to start accepting Gocrypto payments, launch the ambassador program and acquire as many PSPs as possible.
Gocrypto Plans to Upgrade the Merchant Dashboard and Offer New Point-of-Sale Terminals
Additionally, Roljic revealed that a new merchant dashboard is being constructed and soon merchants can become a crypto exchange by leveraging the firmâs hardware point-of-sale (PoS) terminals.
A preview of the new Gocrypto merchant dashboard.
âWe are in the final stage of testing our own physical PoS terminals that will enable merchants to buy and sell selected cryptocurrencies as well as to accept crypto payments,â Roljic stressed. Lastly, the firm is also in the midst of attempting to obtain a license for financial services from the central bank. Roljic conceded that the project is âdemandingâ but will represent âa big step forward in the crypto industry.â
Gocrypto has plans to launch a physical hardware PoS terminal. At present, Gocrypto is finalizing the product and the company hopes to see every merchant become their own crypto exchange.
Roljic added that Gocrypto wants to conquer the world, and in the future they can envision every merchant having the ability to become their own exchange by being able to sell digital currencies at the counter. The Slovenia-based firm is also currently talking with companies worldwide that manage âmillions of physical merchantsâ and the firm aims to integrate Gocrypto into their point-of-sale (PoS) or cashier systems.
What do you think about Gocryptoâs expansion and the 1,000 locations the company has onboarded to-date? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
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