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Kalatori — non-custodial Polkadot/AssetHub payment gateway for eCommerce
There’s currently no ready to use tool to receive AssetHub tokens (or even “native” DOT/KSM) if you’re running an eCommerce application and don’t want to trust some third parties to just receive the payments on your behalf. With Kalatori, we intend to fix that, and deliver to the community a set of free, opensource plugins for the major eCommerce engines which would allow shop owners to receive both AssetHub-powered and “chain-native” tokens in exchange for the goods/services they are selling, without having to trust their money to any intermediaries in the process. Kalatori builds on top of our experience in building an (MVP-quality) payment processing for shop.kampe.la. Following the feedback from the community, in this proposal we are adding support for the AssetHub-provided tokens, with stablecoin assets deemed sufficient by the Polkadot governance (USDT, USDC) being the primary focus here — since sufficiency adds an option to pay for the transaction fees with the asset itself, solving the infamous “second currency needed to pay the fees” UX problem. After investigating our target audience more thoroughly, we’ve also decided to focus more on implementing the standards-compliant invoicing and reporting for crypto payments in the shops receiving payments with Kalatori — which is a non-trivial task, and otherwise might end up a big roadblock in Kalatori (and thus Polkadot) adoption.
Current Progress and Comments:
A radically different development effort made by Alzymologist Oy, whose members took the task of developing a hardware wallet with Kampela. Now, this project looks to implement a generic and easy to use payment platform for stablecoin payments that originate from Polkadot’s Assethub (native stablecoin issuing).
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