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It is a pleasure to announce the newest addition to our bundle of native cryptocurrencies, TRX! Any user of the TRON blockchain can now shop at <a href="https://coingate.com/stores" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of stores</a> using CoinGate.
<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx.png"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2552" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-1024x535.png" alt="Tron crypto" width="1024" height="535" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-1024x535.png 1024w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-150x78.png 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-300x157.png 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-768x401.png 768w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-860x449.png 860w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-680x355.png 680w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-500x261.png 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-400x209.png 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-200x105.png 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-50x26.png 50w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
Our team here at CoinGate is sure that the rapidly emerging TRON blockchain will become a valued addition to our list of <a href="https://coingate.com/accept/tron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported cryptocurrencies</a>. By facilitating payments between TRX shoppers and online vendors, we aim to become a significant part of the TRON ecosystem and contribute to further growth of the community.
<h2>The TRON blockchain: mission &amp; vision</h2>
Even though the TRON mainnet launched as recently as May 2018, it has already left a significant mark in the blockchain space. Led by the renowned founder Justin Sun, TRON demonstrates huge ambitions towards rebuilding the World Wide Web as we know it.
Resembling Ethereum, TRON provides the ability to build<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/v0.4.24/introduction-to-smart-contracts.html"> smart contracts</a> with Solidity, issue custom tokens and deploy decentralized apps on top of TRON’s network. All these tools allow building a huge variety of businesses and applications, including social media and retail networks, publishing platforms, online stores, peer-to-peer video streaming and pretty much anything else that currently exists on the Internet. 
<figure id="attachment_2553" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2553" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-2553" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-1024x619.jpg" alt="Tron CoinGate" width="1024" height="619" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-1024x619.jpg 1024w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-150x91.jpg 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-300x181.jpg 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-768x464.jpg 768w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-1240x750.jpg 1240w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-860x520.jpg 860w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-680x411.jpg 680w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-500x302.jpg 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-400x242.jpg 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-200x121.jpg 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron-50x30.jpg 50w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/tron.jpg 1262w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2553" class="wp-caption-text">Tron provides its own web, mobile and desktop wallets</figcaption></figure>
In simple terms, TRON aims to enable users to trustlessly publish and store virtually any kind of data as well as get rewarded for it, without the necessity of third-party involvement.
<h2>TRON and Ethereum, the eternal crypto rivals 
</h2>
TRON strives to surpass its direct rival Ethereum by providing more effective scalability solutions. Supposedly, the TRON blockchain is able of processing 2,000 transactions per second (TPS). For comparison, the current Ethereum network capacity is 15 TPS, though the<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-20-launch-really-not-so-far-away-says-vitalik-buterin-in-devcon4-keynote"> most recent developments</a> might soon change that.
For such a network to scale, an enormous amount of mining resources would be required. However, TRON is secured by the Proof-of-Stake rather than Proof-of-Work, and does not require that much power to function effectively and securely. As a result, any attempt to alter, delete or demonetize content published on TRON would be impossible as all the data is permanently stored on the blockchain – at least before usage of the network grows significantly enough to shed light on shortcomings of its PoS consensus.
<h2>The state of TRON today</h2>
Just very recently in July, <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/25/blockchain-company-tron-buys-bittorrent/">TRON made a $126 million acquisition</a> of <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://www.bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a>, the largest peer-to-peer file sharing service in the world, and its collective user base of 100 million in the process. Merging BitTorrent with the network would make TRON the biggest decentralized ecosystem in the world, potentially bringing blockchain technology to the masses. Still, there is a long way to go, according to their extensive 10 year-long roadmap.
<figure id="attachment_2562" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2562" style="width: 902px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2562" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-1024x588.jpg" alt="Tron trx coin" width="902" height="518" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-150x86.jpg 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-300x172.jpg 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-768x441.jpg 768w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-860x494.jpg 860w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-680x391.jpg 680w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-500x287.jpg 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-400x230.jpg 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-200x115.jpg 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1-50x29.jpg 50w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/trx-market-1.jpg 1067w" sizes="(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2562" class="wp-caption-text">TRX performance in markets, mid-January 2019</figcaption></figure>
The more current objective of TRON is to set off the creation of a proprietary community of content creators and consumers. The team seems to have doubled down their efforts on this, as the number of <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://ethereumworldnews.com/justin-sun-we-will-exceed-200-tron-trx-dapps-very-soon/">dApps and smart contracts deployed on the network has been growing</a> at a healthy pace.
As of now, TRON is getting ready for the crowdfunding of new cryptographic token BitTorrent (BTT) as a part of their<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://ethereumworldnews.com/tron-trx-project-atlas-secret-2018/"> secretive Project Atlas</a>. It is a long-awaited release which aims to create a token-based economy, revolving around the usage of networking, bandwidth, and storage on hundreds of millions of computers around the world.
<figure id="attachment_2555" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2555" style="width: 349px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2555" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron.jpg" alt="Tron trx crypto" width="349" height="427" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron.jpg 604w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-123x150.jpg 123w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-245x300.jpg 245w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-500x612.jpg 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-400x489.jpg 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-200x245.jpg 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/justin-sun-nitron-50x61.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2555" class="wp-caption-text">Justin Sun, the Founder of Tron</figcaption></figure>
To put it simply, it will allow users to use the token for the improvement of BitTorrent’s network speed. However, according to the BitTorrent whitepaper, the further development will “open up a whole new borderless economy exchanging value for computational resources on a global scale”. Marked as the first step towards the decentralization of the Internet, the BTT token will be first distributed to TRX community via airdrop during the Q1 of 2019.
With the upcoming<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://www.nitron.org/"> niTRON Summit</a>, the very first TRON developer conference which will be held on January 17–18 in San Francisco, the project has attracted significant attention which also reflected on the price of TRX. The event will hopefully reveal more details about the BitTorrent token and Project Atlas.
<h2>Increasing the adoption of TRX</h2>
As the interest in blockchain-based technologies grows exponentially, TRX coin might as well become a commonly used payment option on our gateway. Recognizing that, we are here to cater to this community by providing a way to spend TRX cryptocurrency at more than 4,500 online vendors.
Hopefully, TRON, as well as all the cryptocurrencies that create a positive impact in the industry, will eventually gain enough traction to become widespread. As a bridge between crypto users and merchants, we are excited to accelerate the adoption of digital currencies by joining forces and combining technologies that benefit each other.
Of course, there is a way for everyone to make a contribution and, at the same time, get to enjoy numerous benefits that come with it. Check out the article where we provide some food for thought explaining <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/why-should-business-accept-crypto">why it is a good idea to consider accepting cryptocurrencies at your business</a>. It also covers different ways you can integrate cryptocurrency payments to your store. Definitely worth spending a few minutes on it!
With that said, we will continue to offer more and more solutions that help increase the accessibility to crypto markets.
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As 2018 came to an end, we use the opportunity to put in writing what we have accomplished, and what our plans for the future are. Read on!
<a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018.png"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-2495" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-1024x535.png" alt="Coingate achievements" width="1024" height="535" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-1024x535.png 1024w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-150x78.png 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-300x157.png 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-768x401.png 768w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-860x449.png 860w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-680x355.png 680w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-500x261.png 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-400x209.png 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-200x105.png 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018-50x26.png 50w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/FIX2018.png 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>We strongly believe 2018 was a healthy year for the entire blockchain space. For us at CoinGate, it was a wild ride, though – despite the market downturn. Without further ado, let’s jump into it and summarise what happened at CoinGate during the exciting year of 2018!
<h2>Looking back at 2018</h2>
We have always been open and transparent about our numbers, and that is how we strive to continue. It is also a good way to start our summary of 2018, so here we go!
As a team, we have doubled to 20 people, now complemented with more developers, compliance and support staff, and a newly formed sales team. In addition to welcoming new members, this year we have seen over 41,000 new users register with us. Over 4,500 merchants are now using our payment gateway, and we have processed close to 300,000 merchant payments since January. In comparison, this is nearly three times more than last year! Although most payments are still made with Bitcoin, we processed more than 15,000 LTC and ETH payments combined in the last 6 months alone.
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Aside from these, in our view, impressive statistics, we are most proud of enabling our merchants and their customers to reap the benefits of technology through our platform. Collectively, this year we managed to reach a number of huge milestones that truly put us in a front seat of innovation.
<h3>Lightning Network payments</h3>
A definite highlight of the year for us was <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/09/05/bitcoin-adoption-is-getting-a-massive-lightning-network-boost/#206e2c03420c">launching Lightning Network payments for Bitcoin</a> in September for all our merchants, after a successful pilot test with our most loyal merchants in July. Needless to say, we were among the first companies in the world to support Lightning. And we are proud that our implementation has been working flawlessly since then! We encourage each and every crypto shopper to start using Lightning Network to benefit from instant payments at virtually no cost. Read up on our<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/pay-using-lightning-network"> blog post</a> to learn how to it works!
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We were so excited about the feedback received upon the launch, that we also decided to support Lightning Network payments for Litecoin. Stay tuned for news in January!
<h3>New native blockchains and ERC20 token support</h3>
Last year, we made a promise to become a multi-currency payment gateway. We kept our word and implemented the Litecoin blockchain into our platform alongside a new version of our API and a fully revamped invoice design (<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/coingate-milestones-payment-processing">which we wrote about back in April</a>). On top of that, we also started processing Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash payments natively in July and, just recently, <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/coingate-integrates-nano-payments-merchants">integrated Nano</a>.
After integrating Ether payments into our payment gateway, we started working on the infrastructure which would allow us to fully utilize the Ethereum blockchain. In less than two months since we <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/introducing-erc20-tokens-support-and-first-integrations">launched ERC20 support</a>, we have already implemented two new tokens into our payment gateway: <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://sirinlabs.com/">Sirin Labs Token</a> (SRN) and <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://www.telco.in/">Telcoin</a> (TEL).
We have no plans to stop here – our developers are implementing two new blockchains and several ERC20 tokens as we speak!
<h3>Instant crypto purchasing</h3>
We have recently integrated options for Skrill and Neteller wallet users to purchase cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin and various altcoins directly to their personal wallets. In addition, we have extended our option for <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://buy.coingate.com">buying crypto with credit cards</a> to support not only BTC and BCH but also ETH, LTC, and XRP.
Purchases made with credit cards, and Skrill and Neteller wallets are instant. Also, they do not require for the user to sign up with CoinGate. The process is as simple as choosing the desired cryptocurrency and providing the payout address. Payments will be confirmed instantly, and your coins will reach your wallet within 24 hours. We have already processed thousands of such payments and look forward to the numbers increasing together with the rising interest in cryptocurrencies!
<h3>Revamped verification process</h3>
Aiming to stay in line with regulations that took place in 2018, and ahead of the ones that will come to force in 2019, we have fully redesigned our KYC procedures for both traders and merchants by utilizing our growing compliance team and third-party compliance tools. We are glad to maintain the verification flow entirely digital and fully automated. 

Many of these changes were prompted by the General Data Protection Regulation. Back in May, GDPR vastly reshaped the regulatory environment in terms of how sensitive data of European citizens should be treated. If you wish to know more, our CEO Dmitrijus Borisenka wrote about <a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://medium.com/@dmitrijusborisenka/how-to-overcome-the-challenges-of-gdpr-coingates-story-c917ca18ef12">the impact of GDPR</a> on Medium, explaining the importance of the recent regulation, as well as discussing the challenges that companies like CoinGate had to overcome.
<h2>What lies ahead in 2019</h2>
The blockchain space has been developing so quickly that planning our development roadmap for the full year is quite impossible. During the first half of the year, however, we will dedicate our focus to several key developments. In addition to implementing new cryptocurrencies and revamping our website interface, we are building more enterprise-level features to cater to the needs of large businesses to start accepting cryptocurrencies. That is just the tip of the iceberg since we are getting ready to become a truly full-fledged merchant processor!
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With that said, let’s go over some major plans we have in our mind!
<h3>New account features for merchants</h3>
As of now, we are refactoring the CoinGate back-end. Our aim is to improve the flexibility for merchants to handle funds on our platform. The results will allow various businesses to avail of the brand new features, such as:
<h4>Cryptocurrency wallet functionality</h4>
 Up until now, our users could only withdraw their entire accumulated account balance. That is bound to change soon, however. By providing wallet functionality, we aim to enable both merchants and traders to store cryptocurrencies with us. Also, there is an option to seamlessly convert one cryptocurrency to another with a click of a button.
<h4>Refunds and payouts </h4>
Alongside wallet functionality, merchants will benefit from a popularly demanded feature to transfer cryptocurrencies to their own wallets, issue refunds to customers, make payments to suppliers, distributors, publishers, and so on!
<h4>Improved API </h4>
With improved ability to use cryptocurrencies, we are also aiming to extend the functionality of our API. This has been particularly demanded by large merchants who need the capability of both collecting customer payments and transacting funds programmatically via the API.
<h4>Permission-based account access </h4>
Permission-based account access for merchants will enable different users within a company to log in to CoinGate to fulfill certain functions. This feature is especially useful for bigger organizations that have multiple departments working on the same account, e.g. accounting, support, developers and so on.
<h4>Mass payout options and recurring payments </h4>
Businesses will have the ability to instantly execute mass cryptocurrency payouts. It will also be possible to make them recurring. Whether you need to distribute funds across several accounts, or periodically pay to multiple suppliers, merchants will be able to do it with ease.
We will add more and more advanced features as we progress. We will share all upcoming developments as they go live. If you do not wish to miss out on it, keep up by subscribing to our blog by entering your email at the bottom of the page!
<h3>Litecoin Lightning Network is coming!</h3>
A<a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" class=" wp-image-2500 alignright" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken.jpeg" alt="Litecoin lightning network" width="183" height="183" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken.jpeg 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken-300x300.jpeg 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken-200x200.jpeg 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2019/01/chicken-50x50.jpeg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px" /></a>s we already mentioned before, we are getting ready to support the Litecoin Lightning Network payments! But before we do that, we are looking for merchants who would be willing to test it out together with us, just like we did with<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/lightning-network-payments-launched-pilot"> Bitcoin Lightning Network pilot</a>. We will feature the participating merchants on our communication channels. Hopefully, they will get recognition of the vast community of Litecoin, as well as other crypto communities.
If you wish to participate, just<a class="keychainify-checked" style="color: #000000;" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9oCBohffq8jRdMDdCZ02bbCQZnKrhRJWINW1ppl6dstWCAw/viewform"> fill out the form</a> and we will keep you informed on the next steps!
<h3>Even more native cryptocurrencies!</h3>
Aside from the improvements on account functionalities, we are also natively integrating two new major blockchains into our payment gateway. Both are set to launch in the first two months of 2019. We are also implementing an ERC20 stablecoin with a few more tokens to come in Q1 and Q2. We cannot reveal the names just yet, but announcements are due very soon!
<h3>New website and UI design</h3>
A new website layout, as well as an improved user interface, have been on our minds since… 2016… The time has finally come and in 2019 you will definitely witness the change in our appearance! Our new home will be much more elegant, convenient and user-friendly than it was before, and that is a promise. However, we do not have a sneak peek for you just yet. Nonetheless, we will definitely give you a tour when it is ready!
<h3>Enhanced compliance monitoring</h3>
For us, the protection of our customers remains the top priority. Hence, we will expand our compliance team and build even more compliance tools. Building advanced compliance procedures is necessary in order to stay ahead of both upcoming regulatory changes and competitors alike. It is a straightforward way to ensure that we can professionally cater to tens of thousands of businesses worldwide.
In fact, we already made significant changes to our KYC procedures, and will update our customers in timely manner to provide required documentation. In due time, we will share more information about our updated compliance processes.
All in all, we have high hopes that 2019 will be even more spectacular than 2018 was. That is our wish for the whole cryptocurrency industry as well. Ultimately, we are all striving for the same thing – a wider adoption of the most advanced cryptocurrencies in the world.

As 2018 came to an end, we use the opportunity to put in writing what we have accomplished, and what our plans for the future are. Read on!

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