Top manager Walmart: Cryptocurrencies will become a way to pay for virtual and physical goods – Bits Media

The technical director of the American retail giant Walmart Suresh Kumar counts, that cryptocurrencies will become the basis of a technological breakthrough in ways to pay for virtual and physical goods.

According to Suresh Kumar (Suresh Kumar), There are three main areas of destruction traditional financial payments. Cryptocurrency allows customers to discover new products in the virtual and social space. Kumar suggested, that in the future, most users will trade through metavseli and in social networks applications, Therefore, digital assets can become an important way of payment in such areas.

“When you are talking about crypto industry, we are talking about the discovery of new physical and virtual products of metavselnaya, or on payments and smart contracts ", - noted the technical director of Walmart.

At the end of September, Walmart launched two projects in the Roblox metavselnaya. The company places in the meta -combat a number of virtual activities and products, Such as games, DJ booth, Ferris wheel and virtual goods, called "verch", For user avatars. Now incorrect tokens (NFT) and cryptocurrencies are not introduced into the metavselnaya Roblox, However, earlier Walmart issued patents for digital currencies and NFT in the space.

“We want to make sure, that customers will be able to make transactions and benefit from this. And it is here, I think, Big problems will begin in terms of differences and payment options ", He said.

Walmart is going to actively promote cryptocurrencies not only in the virtual world. Last year, the American giant of retail trade has placed more 200 CoinStar cryptomats in dozens of their stores in the United States.