AppCoins News Update, or ANU for short, is a regular bi-weekly update by the AppCoins team. As usual, we are going to cover dev updates, market reports, team members and upcoming events. This week’s focus is on Peer-to-Peer Transfers Updates, Redeem Cards, “Ask Someone to Pay” — the new payment method for users — and Game Developers Conference recap.

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Dev Update

APPC Markets Report

Featured Team Member

Game Developers Conference

Since the last ANU, the team has been focusing on developing a new payment method — Ask Someone to Pay — and on generating Redeem Cards that users can use to earn AppCoins Credits.

P2P Transfers Updates

Our credits system allows our users not only to benefit from promotions such as our User Incentives Program and our User Acquisition Flow, but also to take advantage of blockchain features like security and transparency. On the 19th of March, we launched a new wallet version with a more straightforward “Send Funds” screen where any user can easily send AppCoins, Ethereum and the new feature, send AppCoins Credits. The objective here is to reach even more users.

Top-Up Feature — Release Date

Top-up is a feature that allows users to top up their wallets with AppCoins Credits using fiat currencies like dollars or euros. We have been talking about the Top-up feature for some time now, and it has recently reached its final tests phase. We expect to release it on the 28 of March.

Ask Someone To Pay

Since the beginning of the AppCoins project, one of our main focus has always been to make purchases available to anyone. That said, we have come up with a new way for users to make purchases.

In this case, when in the checkout screen, we have provided a new payment method called: “Ask Someone to Pay.” When using this method, the user can create a link that he/she can share with anyone — for instances, with his/her parents. That link will open a webpage that shows the intention of buying a specific item. From there, the person who received the link can help the user who sent it buy the item by topping up his/her wallet.

Redeem Cards (My AppCoins)

Since we are present at many events like GDC, MWC, and others, we’ve developed a system that allows us to generate cards with codes that the user can redeem and earn AppCoins Credits. This is a way for users who are not yet familiar with the use of APPC Credits to test them and understand their potential.