Samsung Pay Gets Ready For Crypto Integration: Report

Samsung Pay accounts for more than 80 percent of the market share and according to Business Korea, the tech outlet Samsung Electronics will integrate crypto asset within Samsung Pay. Let’s read more about it in the latest cryptocurrency news.

The integration of crypto assets will likely increase the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies and as the reports show:

 “Samsung Electronics appears to be moving to integrate cryptocurrencies to Samsung Pay, which accounts for 80 percent of the South Korean simple payment market. The company has recently transferred the blockchain task force (TF) of the mobile business division to the service business division.’’

Previously in 2018, the Korea Herald reported that Samsung Pay made a 58 percent increase in its users base. The industry tracker WiseApp found that the platform was mostly used as a financial application in late 2018 where more than 10.4 million users got their hands on it. In 2017, the platform had about 6.6 million users which make an incredible step forward for Samsung.

The 10 million users represent the 20 percent of the entire South Korean population and the platform has also thousands of users around the world that use the application because of its technology called magnetic secure transmission. This technology enables users to transact at a conventional point of sale terminals. Now, the strategy of Samsung Pay is to make sure that a niche market is secured and will expand its user base even further.

Samsung already integrated a crypto wallet-the Samsung Blockchain Wallet back in February along with its Samsung S10 device which allows users to send, receive and hold cryptocurrencies in the built-in wallet. The South Korean altcoin news outlet Donga noted:

‘’Samsung Pay has recently extended the transaction period for overseas users and integrated an international payment processing service, aggressively targeting the global financial services market.’’

With reports suggesting that the tech giant is considering the possibility of launching a blockchain network, it is expected that Samsung will continue to march forward to target the rapidly growing sector. Under the leadership of the current vice president of the business division Kim Yong-Jae, the blockchain task force at Samsung has started new other crypto projects.