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Something we’re thinking about a lot at Shopify right now is “accelerated checkout for crypto payments”. It’s actually a really tricky problem! Here’s why: 1/

Shopify has supported crypto payments for years, via payment partner apps like Coinbase Commerce. When, the user selects “pay with crypto” at Pay Now they’re taken to an offsite page hosted by the payment app to answer q’s like “which wallet? Which coin” before finally handing off to wallet to sign tx. 2/

Now, what we’d RATHER see is something a lot more “accelerate-able” where the checkout can make a lot of assumptions for the buyer, while allowing them the option to make edits to those assumptions at any time - without ever hitting a back button. That last part is the hard part.

What “good” really looks like is, the buyer on a checkout can be accelerated right through to their wallets as fast as possible, where the payment app has an extension target to offer, “review or make changes” *from inside the wallet*.

We think this would be really useful - not just for Shopify, but for crypto commerce in general. We have some promising threads going w/ a few organizations here, but if this is interesting to you, I’d love to hear from you!

This setup is a lot of clicks, but it works- because payment apps have a dedicated page they own, where they can get whatever info they need - and, therefore, allowing the wallet to *only* have to ask for final signature.