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Why WalletConnect Pay is not yet available in every country?

WalletConnect Pay is an infrastructure for accepting payments in stablecoin and crypto through the WalletConnect. It does not turn on globally immediately: availability depends on local regulatory frameworks, licenses of payment providers and settlement partners.

Each jurisdiction has its own rules (MiCA and TFR in the EU, GENIUS Act in the USA, separate regimes in Asia and Africa). Providers and acquirers offer the method only within their licenses.

WalletConnect Pay is embedded in their processes without taking custody and full KYC/AML - the decision where to include the service is made by the licensed parties.

Key limitations:

1️⃣ Sanction screening of wallets (OFAC, EU, UK) and IP check in prohibited regions before payment.

2️⃣ Travel Rule: collection of name, date and place of birth at the first payment.

3️⃣ Limited fiat corridors (now USD, EUR, GBP, etc. in process) - without local off-frame partners, the expansion is slower.

4️⃣ Taxes: stablecoin acceptance is often interpreted differently than fiat (tax events, VAT/GST, reporting). The rules vary greatly from country to country.

5️⃣ Launch through local PSPs, acquirers and terminals (e.g. Ingenico). The phased process is a recent example in South Africa through Ezeebit.

The service is already operating in a number of markets and is expanding as regulators and partners are ready. The infrastructure adapts to the current rules, and does not bypass them. Availability is growing where there are licenses and clear compliance requirements.

Who expects @WalletConnect Pay in their country? How often would you use this payment option? $WCT
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In Q3 2026, about $100 billion of volume and 28.1 million signatures passed through the @WalletConnect network. Among the networks that provided the bulk of this activity, five stood out: Arbitrum, BNB Chain, Base, Ethereum and Monad (they are listed in alphabetical order in the report).

Why exactly them:

• Ethereum is the deepest liquidity and the main settlement layer. Most of the large stablecoin transfers go through it.

• Arbitrum is a mature L2 with strong DeFi and payment activity, a lot of volume in trading and settlement.

• Base - rapid growth of users and consumer scenarios (Coinbase + agentic/x402), strong stablecoin flow.

• BNB Chain - mass retail, low commissions, high frequency of transactions, especially in Asia and emerging markets.

• Monad is a new fast EVM L1, which rose sharply in Q3 on TVL and attracted large protocols.

The main driver is stablecoins (USDC, USDT, USDG). These networks best combine liquidity, users and real application activity

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WalletConnect Certified is not just a tick in the list. This is the status that wallets receive after checking according to network standards: reliability of connections, convenience, security and compatibility. When you open the application connection modal, such wallets have an icon, and they are higher than the rest in the list.

The program runs in seasons. Now the third, and the main criterion in it is the native integration of @WalletConnect Pay. Previously, payment was made via fallback (several steps: scan, connect, confirm). Now in certified wallets, scanning QR with a built-in scanner leads to confirmation in one or two steps. At the same time, the assets remain in your wallet.

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Here's the Q3 WCT Ecosystem Roundup from @WalletConnect . Just saw the results of P4 - another strong statistic from the team that deserves attention and trust.

In the third quarter, about $100B of volume passed through the network. 28.1 million signatures. Top assets by activity: USDC, USDT, ETH, WETH, USDG. This is not a forecast or a promise - just what really went through the network for the quarter.

In terms of staking, the figures are also specific: 95.69 million $WCT in the stake, 72.5 thousand active stakers. This is 20.37% of circulating supply. For the quarter, almost 2.95 million WCT were distributed in awards.

And most importantly, the community accepted P4. The new APY formula and a separate RewardWeight raise the profitability for all positions. Indicative APY for 104 weeks increases from 20.31% to 24.52%, and for a short 4-week period - from 0.78% to 5%.

The team shows real volumes, openly changes the mechanics of staking through governance and continues to build an infrastructure that can be used.

P4 passed. The community itself has decided what the staking rewards will look like.

People who hold $WCT themselves voted for short curls to become normal, and long ones to become a little better. Not all projects are ready to give such solutions to the holders. Here they decided that it was right.

@pedrouid is the most competent person in this. He didn't just throw a prop on Snapshot, but really understands how the system should work, and is not afraid to put it out loud.

It's good that "YES" won. The formula has become adaptive: when there is little stake, the rewards are higher, when there is a lot, they gradually decrease.

Short positions now make sense, and 104 weeks increased from 20.31% to 24.52%. At the same time, the power of the voice remained the same. Then audit and rooting.
@WalletConnect

The official @WalletConnect Pay docks already have a full guide to Tap to Pay via NFC.

The terminal gives an NDEF tag with a link. The phone picks it up and immediately opens the wallet on the payment intent. Without QR scanning.

On Android, it works via App Links and NDEF_DISCOVERED, on iOS via Universal Links and Background Tag Reading. There is even a separate translucent activity for this script and support foreground dispatch if the wallet is already open.

So far it's experimental, but the documentation is public and detailed. They have a Demo POS App for tests.

Almost no one understands this scenario, although it already exists $WCT

The main problem of the crypt now is not volatility or hacks. Everyone has been living with this for a long time. The problem is that there are assets, and it is still difficult and inconvenient to use them normally in applications and services.

Wallets are scattered, networks are different, connection requires a lot of steps, confirmations and constant switching. Errors with addresses, network selection, waiting. As a result, the majority simply keeps or trades, and does not pay, does not receive and does not use in ordinary services.

This is solved by @WalletConnect
This is a communication network for the economy of digital assets. Wallets and applications are connected through it, and a person can continue to use without constant switching and unnecessary movements every time. As in conventional services, where access already works in the background.

As long as this level of communication is not available everywhere, the crypt will still be a niche story for those who are ready to understand. When the friction goes away, then the real use appears. $WCT

Transfer to the wrong address in onchain is irreversible. Therefore, before sending stablecoin or crypto, they usually check the possession of the wallet manually: screenshot, signature, the person looks. It works on small volumes. There is a queue on the big ones and payments are slowed down.

@WalletConnect did otherwise. Wallet Verification: the user connects a wallet of 700+ and signs one message. This signature proves control over the address right now, without gas and without a test transaction.

The record for the audit is recorded immediately, the screening takes place in the same step. Everything works through an existing connection for deposits and payments.

Simple action. Cryptographic proof. Before the money goes away. $WCT

Morning

The market seems to have breathed out after a week.
$BTC holds about $81.5k, does not break anything and does not build anything - it just stands. The liquidations are no longer the ones that were in the middle of the week, the volumes have subsidated, and the sentiment index has moved closer to neutral. Someone is bored, I'm fine.

Saturday should look like this: without haste, without sudden movements, with the opportunity to just see how the market behaves while everyone is resting.

I like this mode more than when everything jumps on the news. Less noise, more time to understand what's really going on. That's what we need days off for.

@WalletConnect Pay is already in South Africa

Payment from any wallet in USDC, USDT, ETH or BNB via Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana in the store and online.

Merchants get stablecoins or fiat.
At the start 2% cashback in $WCT

Real infrastructure. It's already working

Stable coins in APAC are coming out of the pilot stage. Hong Kong has issued the first licenses to issuers, Singapore has published draft legislation on stable coins, Japan already has a regulated yen stablecoin, Australia includes them in the renewal of payment licensing.

For payment service providers, the question is no longer whether stable coins and crypto will appear at the cash desk, but how to maintain them without separate development, a new compliance stack and additional operational risks. Merchants in the cross-border ecommerce, travel and digital goods begin to ask about it, and the answer "not yet" means that the volume will go to those who can answer differently.

@WalletConnect Pay gives one integration in the format of the usual alternative payment method. Customers pay from 700+ wallets and accounts of major exchanges, the network covers 900+ million users. Gas is sponsored, payment is routed, the merchant receives a selected token or fiat. Sanction screening and data for Travel Rule are already built-in, so you don't need to collect it from scratch. $WCT

Sometimes I want to quit my job, send all my money to one wallet and play this machine all day

Just pay @WalletConnect Pay, using stablecoins or $WCT token, while you do not need to transfer them to fiat yourself, using P2P or other services

Scan. Pay. Done.

The idea for the team for the next event is to put this machine, it will be fun 💙

I offer this hoodie option for @WalletConnect

I like this concept. Black, white or blue to choose from, logo on the chest and back, discreet accents. Without unnecessary text, just a recognisable design that can be worn both at events and on an ordinary day.

You can take a note. I think such merch will come in $WCT

On Token2049, stablecoin was again the main theme. It's not a surprise anymore.

@WalletConnect just keeps data on how much value really moves through the wallets every week. Pulse near the conference gathered people from wallets, institutionals, RWA, trading platforms and DEX. Talk about how one layer of connection closes both payments and access to applications without separate integrations for each wallet.

The team's next stop is Lisbon 🇵🇹

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The @WalletConnect team is travelling on Meridian to Lisbon.

October 28–29, Convento do Beato. Jess Houlgrave, Aaron Dodd, Felipe Obiglio and Dayana Aleksandrova will be on site. Jess will perform, and they promise an announcement for these two days, so it's better to watch the program carefully.

Stellar's Meridian is just about how the network works with payments and real money. A good place to hear WalletConnect not from the feed, but live.

Who will be in Lisbon, come and get acquainted.
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The payment from WalletConnect for a month in Cabal has arrived.

This is not a one-time activity and not a contest for good luck. WCT Cabal is a closed program for authors who are hired by invitation. The meaning is simple: to consistently talk about WalletConnect, stablecoin and crypto payments and how the network connects wallets, applications and payments.

For this there is a monthly payment in $WCT . Plus direct contact with the team, early briefs and merch twice a year. I don't write the amount here, it's better to attach the screenshot yourself.

This scheme is closer to me than one-time bounties. There is a rhythm, there are clear conditions, and the content about the infrastructure does not go into the void.

People are still arguing about which "real" chain. And the money is already quietly sitting in the stables and they don't care through which network they were sent.

$USDT on one chain, $USDC on the other, in the wallet it's just a dollar. The network pops up only when the gas bites or the transfer hangs for two minutes and you already write in the chat "who had it".

Chains are arguing for the narrative. Stables just carry the amount. While the second is working, the first can be discussed at least until the night.

Seoul, September 29. SOOHO Cafe in Gangnam, an evening at Korea Blockchain Week.

WalletConnect Pay x DCENT pop-up was tight. People came to the counter, took the merchandise and paid from the wallet on the spot. I chose the item, confirmed the transaction, picked it up.

$WCT was accepted on payment. Who paid in $WCT , got 2x cashback in $WCT

Payment history and cashback status can be viewed in the WalletConnect Pay profile.

There was a DCENT nearby. If there was no wallet, they helped to put self-custody on the spot and immediately go through the payment. For Seoul, this is a normal bundle: your own wallet and payment at one point.

Before Korea, such pop-ups were already in Cannes, Hong Kong, Lisbon and Bali. Seoul has its own rhythm. Queue at the counter, conversations about networks and gas, people who came to try to pay for stablecoin and crypto, and not just to pick up a sticker.

Thanks to everyone who came in. The following cities are @WalletConnect

The jacket in the last photo hit my heart 💙🤍

$POL is back in the feed, and again everyone pretends to have discovered America.

Price $0.116. The network is alive. Polymarket sits on @Polygon and buys gas every day. Commissions are coming, some are being burned. 100 million have already been burned, they are still piling up. It's not a sensation, it's the accounting network they use.

The token has grown in a month. Not in a year. Nobody's running. No one buries. Just look at the chart, see the same picture and move on.

That's the whole movement. Not a platform token. Not a new narrative. Just the gas of that network, which is really spinning now.

Tonight in Seoul @WalletConnect Pay x DCENT Pop-Up.

SOOHO Cafe B1, 126 Teheran-ro, Gangnam

18:30–21:30 KST

You can come in, meet the team and the community, take the merch and pay via WalletConnect Pay using stablecoins or $WCT . If you don't have a wallet yet, @DCENTWALLETS will help on the spot.

Who is in Seoul on KBW, it's a lively moment to the main bustle.