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Press release: Lithuania-based blockchain payment gateway CoinGate has joined forces with open-source, ecommerce platform PrestaShop, based in Paris, France. The collaboration with reach over 80,000 EU-based merchants.
20 March 2018, Vilnius, Lithuania – CoinGate and PrestaShop announce a partnership to enable tens of thousands of online merchants to start accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment method. The integration of CoinGate services into the back-end of PrestaShop platform will reach at least 80,000 EU-based merchants.
<a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://coingate.com">CoinGate</a> and <a class="keychainify-checked" href="http://prestashop.com">PrestaShop</a> partnership is a significant step in the adoption of cryptocurrencies.  CoinGate CEO Dmitrijus Borisenka explains the reasoning behind the collaboration. He stresses the importance of enabling the masses to access this new exciting technology.
<blockquote>“Encouraging adoption among people beyond the tech-savvy early-adopters is one of the biggest priorities for us. PrestaShop has an ideal base of small to medium stores that may well utilize cryptocurrencies not only as an innovative and increasingly popular payment method. Paying with cryptocurrencies is much cheaper than traditional card payments, including the promotional benefits that the Bitcoin tag carries. There is an entirely new market of people who own all kinds of cryptocurrencies and are looking for ways to spend them. However, the gap between customers and merchants in this sphere is still huge. It is, therefore, crucial to educate and encourage businesses to adopt a forward-thinking attitude and to overcome the prevailing misconceptions that surround cryptocurrencies.”</blockquote>
To make things as simple as possible for newcomers, CoinGate ensures the mechanics of integrating the payment gateway are user-friendly. Moreover, basic familiarity with cryptocurrencies is more than enough to use payment processor. Users can install payment module with a few clicks. The merchant only needs to set up an account with CoinGate to start accepting payments. Also, the payment processor supports Bitcoin and over 50 other cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum and Litecoin, among others. All cryptotokens are in a single payment environment, that caters the widest range of cryptocurrency owners. For merchants, things could not be simpler: the accumulated payments are settled in a single currency chosen by the merchant.
CoinGate also allows <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://coingate.com/accept">real-time settlements in Euros</a> for its customers, delivering received payments to merchant bank accounts the next day. This is an important feature for merchants new to the crypto space or worried about the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
<blockquote>“It is absolutely safe to accept cryptocurrencies as a way of payment. We protect our merchants from exchange rate volatility risk by locking the price of Bitcoin at the moment of the purchase. Merchants who opt to receive Euro payouts from us, essentially, do not have to touch cryptocurrencies at all – we handle every stage of the process.”</blockquote>
CoinGate already works with over 1,500 businesses worldwide. The partnership between the two companies will open doors for more than 80,000 online stores of all kinds to have an easy entry into the cryptocurrency market. The cooperation of the two companies is a promising development in the rise of blockchain-based payments. This market is rapidly progressing towards maturity, but so far has been restricted by lack of user-friendly interfaces to connect merchants and customers.
About CoinGate. <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://coingate.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CoinGate</a>, based in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a cryptocurrency payments company established in 2014. The company offers a range of blockchain-focused services for businesses and individuals, including automated payment processing and brokerage services. CoinGate has a user base 50,000 and boasts monthly volumes exceeding over €10 million with over 1,500 merchants using the company’s payment gateway.
About PrestaShop. Founded in 2007, <a class="keychainify-checked" href="https://www.prestashop.com/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PrestaShop</a> delivers an open source e-commerce software that offers an efficient, powerful, flexible and innovative platform. Today more than 270,000 e-stores in 195 countries operate under PrestaShop. PrestaShop’s mission is to work side by side with the e-merchants to grow their business and give them all the tools to be the most successful possible. Present in Europe and the U.S., the company has been funded by XAnge Private Equity, Seventure Partners et Serena Capital.
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CoinGate and PrestaShop announce a partnership to enable tens of thousands of online merchants to start accepting cryptocurrencies as a payment method.

CoinGate and PrestaShop partner to bring cryptocurrency payments to 80,000 ecommerce merchants

CoinGate users can now buy Litecoin and Ethereum.&nbsp;Login to your account to be among the first ones to do so!<img loading="lazy" width="353" height="338" class="alignright wp-image-1777" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3.png" alt="Buy LTC and ETH on CoinGate" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3.png 655w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-150x144.png 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-300x288.png 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-500x479.png 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-400x384.png 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-200x192.png 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/lit-ether3-50x48.png 50w" sizes="(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px" />



We are also pleased to announce that we will soon launch LTC and ETH as native currencies to our merchant payment gateway.



Amid the tumbling cryptocurrency prices, we have witnessed a healthy spike in Altcoin payments through our partnership with ShapeShift, as we touched upon in our <a href="https://34.90.149.110/2018/02/coingate-2017-review-plans-future/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">year 2017 review</a>. Currently, around 10% of all Merchant orders we process are non-Bitcoin, with Litecoin and Ethereum far ahead of the rest. 



We’ve been planning native integrations of the two since early 2017, and so the recent steady growth we observed in the demand for these currencies only confirmed that it is high time to take a step forward.&nbsp;And so, buying Litecoin and Ethereum is just the first step.



There is no doubt that Ethereum and Litecoin are among the most established and, even more importantly, used cryptocurrencies out there. Due to the confirmation speed and cost-efficiency of these blockchains, we believe it is a vital time for us to extend our offering to CoinGate merchants too.&nbsp;We are already under way with developments and will soon become a full-fledged payment processor for multiple cryptocurrencies!



<h2 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">How to buy Litecoin and Ethereum?</h2>



The process is not any different to buying Bitcoin. If you’re new to CoinGate, first, <a href="https://dashboard.coingate.com/register" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">sign up</a> and verify your account to trader level (verification takes up to 24 hours only), and add your payout address. Customers who are already using our services can <a href="https://dashboard.coingate.com/login" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">access</a> the feature directly from the user dashboard.



<ol class="has-foreground-color has-text-color"><li>Choose your Payment Method. To buy Ether and Litecoin you can currently use one of the following:<img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-1772 aligncenter" src="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate.png" alt="buy litecoin and ethereum on coingate" width="676" height="205" srcset="https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate.png 676w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-150x45.png 150w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-300x91.png 300w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-500x152.png 500w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-400x121.png 400w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-200x61.png 200w, https://wp-blog-assets.coingate.com/2018/02/buy-litecoin-ethereum-coingate-50x15.png 50w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" /></li></ol>



2.1. If buying with&nbsp;SEPA bank transfer or MoneyPolo: Enter your desired purchase amount in Euros or chosen cryptocurrency. Click the Buy button and make the transfer.



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2.2.&nbsp;If buying with&nbsp;Mobile Credit: Select the coin you wish to buy, your country&nbsp;of residence out of the list, and your payout address. Proceed to purchase amount and payment.



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3. Await your payout!&nbsp;We think we’re pretty quick: your coins will reach you within 24 hours of payment confirmation, though usually quicker.



We really hope you find the payment experience friendly and intuitive. In case you grow fond of CoinGate, we suggest you go ahead and create a <a href="https://coingate.com/account/referrals">referral link</a> to invite your friends. In return, we offer a lifetime commission of up to 1% of their purchases!



<h3 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">What’s Next?</h3>



Offering the option for customers to buy Litecoin and Ethereum is our first move towards becoming a platform that will allow merchants to accept multiple cryptocurrencies. In the very near future, we are going to integrate Litecoin and Ether into our&nbsp;payment gateway for merchants. Looking further into 2018, we are optimistic about making it possible to buy, sell and accept dozens of other cryptocurrencies. Stay tuned!



Thank you for reading.&nbsp;



CoinGate team

CoinGate users can buy Litecoin and Ethereum! We are lalso launching LTC and ETH as native currencies to our merchant payment gateway!

Buy Litecoin and Ethereum on CoinGate!

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2017 was a fascinating year. With Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies becoming the hot topics of the year, CoinGate has rapidly grown alongside. Here is a brief wrap up of what we have accomplished, and what exciting new plans we have for the near future.



<h2 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">100,000 merchant payments processed by CoinGate in 2017!</h2>



Bitcoin has grown tremendously in 2017 – not only in price but also in usage for payments. With the huge increase of businesses that are looking to accept Bitcoin payments, our service has also been expanding rapidly. 



Our proudest achievement of the year is the scale at which we have managed to grow. In 2016 we processed 10,000 orders which already felt quite significant. But have managed to grow tenfold to 100,000 payments in 2017, totalling over $50 million in volume. Just a few months ago in August, we celebrated 300 payments processed in a single day on our platform. Now, we are seeing over 800 payments made by shoppers to our merchants daily, and on our good days we went over 2,000 payments per day. 



We feel to have become a significant part of the whole crypto-movement.&nbsp;From high-end tech companies to watchmakers and shoe stores, we enjoy the diversity of the merchants we serve today. We are proving to ourselves and everyone around us that Bitcoin has a use case in the world of payments and that any business can benefit from it. In fact, more than 3,000 merchants in 2017 have received at least 1 successful payment at CoinGate.&nbsp;And that’s an astonishing number!



CoinGate team does not see any reason to stop and we are looking forward to 2018. It should be even more exciting year for crypto-communities around the world.



<h2 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">$20 million worth of bitcoins traded</h2>



The hype that has surrounded cryptocurrencies through the whole year has reflected on our trader service too. Therefore, we have extended our services offered to cater for the demand. By the end of 2017, we had processed more than $20 million worth of BTC in individual purchases through bank transfer and credit cards. 



CoinGate team is always on the lookout to improve the scope of our offer. Therefore, we aim to introduce features that are more convenient and unique than possible elsewhere. Our feature of buying BTC with mobile credit has become the first of its kind option to acquire small amounts of cryptocurrency, and we will be extending it to other coins shortly too.



<h3 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">SegWit implemented</h3>



It’s obvious that Bitcoin went beyond what could have been expected in 2017, both in price and its scale of adoption. Not only that, cryptocurrencies and blockchain became hot topics for everyone including governments and big businesses. Some have taken the first steps to implement blockchain technology into their processes. Others have been working on new crypto-projects that aim to solve all sorts of problems in the world.



It is no surprise that during 2017 in particular, we have witnessed the very first Bitcoin fork (and a number of others later on). More importantly, however, the inevitable and long overdue SegWit upgrade for Bitcoin was finally implemented. This upgrade introduces some important tweaks to the Bitcoin blockchain, fixing transaction malleability, improving the protocol’s security and efficiency. And what’s more, enabling easier scaling of Bitcoin in the long term. CoinGate team is keen supporters of SegWit and therefore we were the first payment processor to <a href="https://coingate.com/blog/post/coingate-implements-segwit-addresses">implement SegWit</a> on our platform.



<h2>CoinGate plans for 2018</h2>



We have definitely been satisfied with the growth of the interest in cryptocurrencies and our company in 2017. This is a big achievement for us and the whole cryptocommunity. And now we are ensured that CoinGate is moving the right direction and we don’t see the reasons to stop.



From the beginning of 2018, we have already implemented a few new features for our customers:



<h3 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">What’s New Already:</h3>



Buy Bitcoin with Mobile Credit



Through our partnership with DaoPay, an Austrian payments company, we have enabled our users to buy Bitcoin with their mobile credit. This feature is a perfect solution for those who want to buy a few Satoshi equal to more or less $50 in value. Moreover, we are already working on implementing the same feature for buying other cryptocurrencies as Ether, Litecoin, and Ripple.



Buy Bitcoin Cash with credit or debit card



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Just recently, it has become possible to buy not only BTC but BCH via CoinGate. This feature came to live due to our partnership with Simplex, the Israeli payment company. <a href="https://coingate.com/buy/credit-card">Buying Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with credit or debit card</a> is the simplest and the fastest way to purchase cryptocurrencies for our users. We do not require either identity verification or&nbsp;account registration.



<h3 class="has-foreground-color has-text-color">Coming Soon:</h3>



Working with new blockchains: Litecoin &amp; Ethereum (and others)



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Buying, selling and accepting Litecoin and Ethereum natively, with other coins to follow, will be possible in the very near future!



For a while, we have been working with ShapeShift to process altcoin payments, and our statistics demonstrate that customers are more than willing to pay with various tokens. In general, the demand for new cryptocurrencies from both our merchants and traders has vastly increased. We have therefore been working hard on integrating these new blockchains to fully utilize their benefits – in particular, transaction costs and speed.&nbsp;



AML solution



For many large businesses, especially regulated companies, compliance with AML and anti-terrorism financing laws has so far been the major obstacle to start accepting Bitcoin. As such, in partnership with <a href="https://www.coinfirm.io/">Coinfirm</a>, CoinGate is working on implementing a chain-analysis AML solution into our platform. The integration will allow our clients to receive a risk score associated with every incoming transaction, and to reject payments based on that risk. We hope that this will serve as a foundation for us to start working with more companies from financial, gaming, forex and other industries.



Asian payments



Our business is expanding and we are reaching out to new markets and segments. To make payment processes smoother for our Asian customers, we are launching a number of payment solutions for Asian countries. Among them will be Alipay, WeChat, as well as instant bank transfer options for Thailand and Indonesia.



Lightning Network



With our keenest Bitcoin guru and CTO Rytis Bieliauskas at the forefront, we are looking into the possibilities of starting to use Lightning Network within CoinGate. Though the developments are still only at the conceptual stage, we are certainly aiming to be the first Bitcoin payment processor to implement Lightning Network functionality to our merchant business.



Our team is extremely excited about 2018 and we will strive to keep up with the expectations of our customers!



Thank you for reading and stay tuned for our announcements in the coming days!



Your CoinGate Team

With Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies becoming the hot topics of the year, CoinGate has rapidly grown alongside. Here is a brief wrap up of what we have accomplished, and what exciting new plans we have for the near future.

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