Worldcoin payments made easy: Android wallet and merchant API releasedThe last few weeks have seen some of the most productive times in Worldcoin’s brief history: The developers have implemented a huge amount of valuable ideas from the Worldcoin community. With the release of a sophisticated, user-friendly Android wallet and the finalization of the CryptoDiggers payment API, users and merchants now have the perfect tools for mobile payments and accepting Worldcoin just by adding a plugin to their online store systems.
Now the Worldcoin Alliance is proud to finally reveal the eagerly awaited Worldcoin Android wallet: based on Andreas Schildbach's excellent Bitcoin wallet and equipped with a customized security model to match Worldcoin’s high-performance characteristics, the Worldcoin wallet has many familiar features, such as unregistered pseudonymous peer-to-peer transactions, quick payments by scanning QR-codes, via NFC or by opening Worldcoin URLs, and an address book for regularly used Worldcoin addresses. Also, users will be informed of incoming transactions by system notifications, and a widget is available to be placed on the homescreen so that the funds can be checked without starting the full wallet. The developers have focused on creating a lightweight app that synchronizes necessary parts of the blockchain only, leading to extremely short synchronization times and energy savings. Moreover, the app displays going rates for Worldcoin in a choice of standard fiat, including gold and silver ounces. In the current version, this data is retrieved from Cryptocoincharts with more choices to come in a future release.
Pierre-Louis Constantin, Worldcoin Android lead developer, explains: “Over the past few weeks the development team worked without pause to build one of the fastest and most reliable Simplified Verification Protocol wallets possible for a Scrypt-based coin. The wallet uses the very latest updates to the SPV libraries and the Worldcoin protocol's latest features such as Worldshield's checkpointing to provide protection from forks and lead to even faster synchronization when the next wallet version is released. We already have frequent updates planned with new features and improvements which will be all about better performance, more security and better integration with the Worldcoin ecosystem."
The Worldcoin Wallet app has just been released and should be available for free from the Google Play (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.coinfit.wdcwallet) store at any minute.
Another recent addition making it ever easier to accept Worldcoin is the new payment API developed by the Slovakia based CrypoDiggers (
http://cryptodiggers.eu/) team. The API will enable merchants to accept Worldcoin by simply adding a plugin to their online shop systems. Currently, these plugins are available for OpenCart (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLYQznLacA8) and Magento (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ssDDu-KDJg) with a Wordpress version to be released soon. Also, the API is being extended to manage Bitcoin and Litecoin payments in the near future. The API development is a brilliant example of the high levels of professionalism and for the perfect teamwork within the Worldcoin community: Strong synergy between the Android wallet developers and the CryptoDiggers team led to seamless compatibility before the API was even released.
A CryptoDiggers spokesman adds: "As mobile payments play an integral role, we wanted to make sure that everything is perfectly consistent with the Worldcoin Android wallet before releasing the API. With the implementation of QR-codes users will just have to scan them with their mobile phones to quickly finish the checkout procedure."
The first two outlets implementing the CryptoDiggers payment API will be Europe based CryptoDiggers Superstore and a North American online shop, both selling a wide range of consumer electronics.
About WorldcoinWorldcoin (WDC) is currently the fastest cryptocurrency that uses protocols similar to Bitcoin in the advanced digital currency world. However, Bitcoin transactions will require up to 20 minutes to confirm a payment, whereas Worldcoin transactions have a target completion of only 30 seconds, rivalling the speed of credit card transactions. This makes Worldcoin unique, with limitless potential in daily retail usage, while Bitcoin is more limited to online payment only, though this is not the only advantage Worldcoin has over other most digital currencies.
About the Worldcoin AllianceThe Worldcoin Alliance represents a group of motivated Worldcoin users who decided to step up and volunteer their time and expertise to develop Worldcoin into a legitimate alternative currency. Our members come from all over the world including the UK, U.S., Canada, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Finland and Austria.
http://www.worldcoinalliance.net/
