The BitPay payment processor has announced its integration to the ShapeShift exchange to provide Bitcoin instant transactions to Bitcoin Cash. This announcement was made in a blog on Thursday, January 18th. This new partnership allows users to trade between Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in BitPay and Copay portfolios

Bitpay based in the United States. was founded in 2011 and is one of the largest international Bitcoin payment gateways. ShapeShift is a cryptocurrency trading platform that focuses on instant transactions between multiple cryptocurrencies.

The integration allows users to "switch" Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash instantly, increasing the level of integration between the two markets.

Bitcoin Cash is a hard fork of Bitcoin launched on August 1, 2017 to increase the Blockchain block size and, by extension, the number of transactions that can be processed by the network every minute

Since its inception, the BCH has been adopted by a number of large digital exchange centers such as Coinbase, Bitfinex, Bitstamp, Kraken, ShapeShift and others.