Airbnb plans to add support for cryptocurrencies and blockchain

According to the Prospekt Primary Public Placement of shares (IPO) Airbnb housing reservation service, In the future, the company can introduce blockchain and add cryptocurrency support.

Avenue
Airbnb promotions, USA (SEC) on This week, Contains information about the company's future plans to implement new technologies. According to the document, “The future success of the company will depend on the ability to adapt to new technologies, eg, tokenization, cryptocurrencies and new authentication technologies ".

The prospectus mentions the technology of the distributed registry and blockchain, as well as biometrics, artificial intelligence, virtual and supplemented reality and cloud technologies. Although the information is presented in the section "Risk Factors", It also says:

“We intend to continue to spend significant resources on maintaining, Development and improvement of our technologies and platforms. However, these efforts may turn out to be more expensive, What was expected, And unsuccessful ".

Airbnb previously stated, that BTC does not plan to accept on his platform. Moreover, in 2019 year, cryptocurrency startup Bitrefill added
service, Allows users to pay for housing rent through the Airbnb service with five cryptocurrencies, And the startup Fold added
Bitcoin payment via Lightning Network for Airbnb.

As part of the IPO, Airbnb plans to start trading shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ABNB ticer. According to Reuters, The company plans to attract about $3 billion under IPO. The company reported in the Avenue of the issue, that she managed to make a profit in the III quarter 2020 of the year, Despite the restrictions, caused by the pandemia of coronavirus.