Hello Steemians, we’re the Metal Pay Team and today we’re excited to announce that we are adding STEEM to our mobile payments app for iOS (with Android to follow in the future). We’ve already published a post to our blog that is geared more for users who are not familiar with Steem, because we want them to get hands-on experience with your blockchain. After speaking with our customers we’ve learned that many of them are new to crypto, and are looking to gain a deeper understanding of this new and exciting technology in ways that fit into their lives.
Real People, Real Apps
We’re always looking for ways to bring new products and services to our users that fit into our vision of making crypto more accessible and useful to everyone. Part of the reason why we’ve decided to make STEEM one of our earliest token additions is that the Steem blockchain supports real-world apps that ordinary people can begin using today.
Bringing STEEM to the Masses
We also know that Metal Pay will deliver a lot of value to Steemians as well. Metal Pay is a person-to-person payments platform that rewards its users with crypto when they send money to friends. We believe that by incorporating amazing tokens like STEEM, we can outcompete products like CashApp and Venmo and become one of the most useful—and most widely-used— payments apps in the world. We think that STEEM, with its 3-second zero-fee transfers, as well as its ability to onboard large numbers of regular people, will help turbocharge our growth while exposing more people than ever to this amazing blockchain.
Feedback Welcome
We’d love to hear what you think of our app, so please download it and leave your feedback in the comments section below. We’ll also be hosting a trivia competition later this week, so be sure to follow us on Steem, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, download the Metal Pay app, and tune in to earn rewards for sharing your crypto knowledge!
🤘 The Metal Pay Team
Babysteps
Yes! We’re actively working on releasing a global version. Please follow us for updates.
How soon could it be available for Italy, @metalpay?
Metal Pay for Europe is in huge demand. We'll announce regional expansions right here on Steemit. Please follow us!
We in Africa are also expecting Metalpay
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Africa is a huge potential market for all crypto based services. People would be stupid to not focus heavily there. Also filled with some of the worlds up and coming economies. Lots of growth to happen in Africa.
You are very right
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@metalpay we in Asia can't wait for that to happen!! ✨✨✨
Oh ok. I thought it was already global. Been seaching metal in my app store for a few times now :)
Hey, that is great! Always excited to read about Steem Growth!!
Are you working on any solutions to pay from your wallet to non-wallet? A visa / master card thing?
Yes to both! Please follow us for updates.
That's brilliant. Having a phone or card payment option would be huge and something I really want to see with STEEM. I'll be watching out for further news.
Very excited to hear more about this and I will start following you!
Should you need any help with beta testing something let me know. :D
I will follow you for updates too @metalpay and I'm interested in knowing if you will avoid fractional reserve policies.
I am weary about bank's fractional reserve policy and I'm interested in knowing if @metalpay will be a safe place for deposits.
Thank you!
P.S. You found this before me @jacuzzi 😀
@chrisrice LOL. You find more great articles than I do, just happened to see this one pop up in my newsfeed first thing!
I was really excited about $usd to Steem - but once you have the Steem in Metal - you cannot get it to your Steemit wallet. Please give us a way to transfer Steem from Metal to our Steemit Wallet so we can power it up, delegate it, etc.
This feature is currently in development and will be available in a future update. Please follow us for product release news.
Metaaaaaal
You have a Steem account with wallet. It should be pretty simple to allow users to request a transfer of “their” tokens from your wallet where you’re holding the tokens. If it takes more than a few days to implement this feature, that would be very concerning.
How could you have a wallet with out the ability to perform a transfer to a different wallet....from the outset.
I strongly agree with this.
Oh....
Thanks for this important detail.
So does it do one way transfers from Steem wallet to the metal wallet or just fiat to Steem On metal wallet?’
Thanks
Right now we allow users to purchase and sell between USD and 18 cryptocurrencies. Mainnet deposits and withdrawals are on the horizon.
https://steemit.com/steemleo/@coininstant/my-letter-to-themarkymark-in-response-to-his-continual-flagging-of-my-account-and-not-hearing-about-my-steemleo-block-from
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Time to bust out my MTL wallet. Excited to hear about this collaboration. It just keeps getting better.
This is a great new.. Steem is growing everyday and new apps are doing an incredible job to increase Steem ... I will check the app .. thanks a lot for this incredible project..!!
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holy moly what in the world.
Sounds great! I hope that maybe in future you might add other fiat currencies, especially euro.
Wow. Exactly what Steem needs to remain economically viable, a real world payment application.
Interesting.... never heard of this app! Installing it now :-) Welcome to the STEEM blockchain!
Really excited for this app to be available to New Yorkers. Great job!
We'd love to be there too! New York and several other US states have policies that currently prohibit us from servicing their residents. Please follow us for updates to know when we've launched in your area.
This is good news, is the App only available for I phone, when or will it be available for Android? The community has been needing this..... Thanks to the team for putting this together.....
Our Android app is nearing completion. Please follow us for updates and thanks for your interest!
Will this be available in the Philippines? @metalpay
@metalpay,
This is very exciting news and I wanna hear about this feature added Android app release information soon!
Cheers~
Make it worldwide please.
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Once you have andriod I'll test it out.
Excellent, well done metalpay, will be using your app in the future to help onboard more people into crypto/Steem, cheers!
Nice to hear that :-)
I'm looking forward for Android version.
Downloading Metal Pay App now
Thanks a million Team
Welcome to @steemit really great that @steemit @steem being included. read some of your plans cant wait, I live in SA so may not be here yet and also use android, so will wait for those implimentations to get on board to suport @metalpay. Now all we need is for @steem to get back up to where it belongs in value, guess this would help to that.
thank you, and again welcome to @steemit.
this is kinda huge. now we just need frontends to accept steem payments better and we are off to the races. well done you guys!
Coinbase has a woocommerce plugin and so does Steem now. Both don't have Fees.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-steem-payment-method/
great. the more the merrier.
Awesome! You made a good decision here, excited for both you and us :D
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Agreed!
Totally!! What she said ⬆️⬆️
Awesome, gotta say you can't go wrong with Steem! Will give your app a try once you have that on Android.
Do you have any API integration? We have our own app @actifit and might be interested in an integration for exchange/payments
Very nice @mcfarhat, so glad to see @actifit is always on the cutting edge.
Did I just read that @actifit is the number one app on Steem!🤗👍
Way to go!!!😊
Not yet, but please post your wish list of features here and we'll pass them along! https://ask.getmetalpay.com/
wow @mcfarhat that would be too cool, I want to see it happen XD
Perfect timing. I've been needing an excuse to get a new phone :)
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Thanks a lot
Looks great!
No doubt I will wait for Android too...
Welcome to the 'Chain guys!
Thanks! We're excited to introduce Metal Pay users to the Steem community, and vice-versa.
For once a developer who released on iOS before Android instead of the other way around.
I’m signing up to use #metalpay as soon as I get home.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does this mean I am able to use my Steem/Bitcoin to buy things anywhere in the USA (online/offline) with a debit card? Or is that a future feature?
Features like those are in development. We're working really hard to close the loop between blockchain and payments. Please follow us for development updates!
Awesome! I look forward to the future. Being able to cash out Steem to my bank account without converting into bitcoin first is huge!
Thanks for believing in our community enough to team up with us.
Also... any plans to add SBD? Or just Steem?
I did suggest to add $STEEM when you, guys, asked for the suggestion! Guess it worked!
Waiting for the beta testing for android!
Cool
Will this app be available in Australia? Australian ITunes?
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Great news, welcome aboard!
Hi @metalpay i want to ask if i can talk whit you, i write you on twitter my account is @Ulisesjhm2001 on twitter, is to now if i can translate your post to the people how only now spanish, thnkas i wait for you answer
yeah but it's US only right? that was a little misleading in your tweet to 1 million registered steemians. i'm afraid we don't all live in the US ;) -- ICANHAZEUROPE?
For now yes, but we promise to announce any European expansion here on our Steemit account. And we didn't intend to sound misleading with that figure. We simply wanted everyone in the Steem community to feel represented by this first step in making STEEM more accessible to our users, and to inform the Metal Pay community of how popular and useful Steem actually is!
Sure, it’s even more useful when I can install it ;) - excited to see European progress. Not everyone lives in the states. That’s all ;) hmm I wonder what percentage do live in the states from the million steemians, I’ll see if I can find out!
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Congrats on this milestone, @metalpay!
When do you think the Android app will be available? Please tag me once it's live ;)
Keep up the great work and have a great day!
Please follow us and we'll make an announcement on Steemit as soon as it's ready to download.
Done, thank you!
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Looking forward to the Android version. Following with interest.
great but android please
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STEEM <-> USD, that's really cool and needed for our community!
I am glad to see that Steem is moving forward even through the most tough time in crypto history. Just got more steem and converted to steem power, going to resume my posting )))
happy to be here, go go steem
Awesomeness! I look forward to downloading it once it's available for Android, so I'll be keeping my eyes open for your announcement! 😊
Great news! As a project blogger for all things STEEM ~ Can you answer the question: Will the app also support the smart tokens created by Steem-Engine and Steemit (when they start releasing later this year)?
Only iOS app?
Our Android app is in the late stages of development, with alpha testing beginning soon. We'll make an announcement on Steemit and our other social channels when it's available.
Thanks
I am interested in the Android version too 👍
well, waiting for that one :D
Making steem more accessible and useable are both well needed. Great addition. Look forward to checking out the app.
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\m/ Metal on!
🤘
Sweet!
More accessible the better.
cool, it's a shame ill need to wait for android version .
Glad to have you here :D
Really nice!
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