Crypto-friendly e-commerce giant Shopify has launched a set of blockchain commerce tools to enhance the user experience of Web3 stores hosted on its platform. On February 9, Shopify blockchain team designer @ryancreatescopy announced the move on Twitter, noting: "We've launched some new tools to help you build tokenizing applications for Shopify merchants." Among them, the expanded crypto wallet connection capabilities and the "tokengating" application API tool are particularly highlighted. The latter has been in early test access mode since June 2022 and was previously only open to some merchants. With tokegating, all applicable Shopify merchants can now set up their stores to specify which token holders can or cannot obtain exclusive products, NFT issuance and benefits. (Cointelegraph)