Recently, the delivery services company and home shopping Piiddo, reported that it will accept the SLP token as a form of payment in more than 300 allied businesses in Venezuela.
The company makes available to users of the Axie Infinity game, more than 300 associated businesses from different areas, for the purchase of products or services through SLP.
With a list of more than 2,500 products, The gamers of this online game will be able to buy and receive from a McDonald’s hamburger, to medicines, technological equipment, and purchases in supermarkets by paying directly with their tokens SLP earned directly in the game.
The initiative arises from the need of the Venezuelan population to protect their savings using any other currency, and in this particular case, the ones widely used in these times by Venezuelan citizens, the cryptocurrencies.
Under this context, Axie Infinity, appears as one of the great options for Venezuelans to generate an extra income, and in some of the cases, it is adopted as a full-time job, since, as stated by the company, “Its Play-to-earn model allows real gains based on in-game performance, through its SLP token.”
The approximate value of this token, ranges between USD 0.13 per token, likewise, lThe users of this video game can generate profits of up to USD 400 per month and even more, for those expert players who tend to spend more time on it.
Opening bridges
The objective of the Piiddo delivery and home shopping service company is to facilitate game users to pay for products or services, with the cryptocurrencies won in said game, serving as a bridge between “Axie Infinity and real life”; As stated by the company, without generating, in the players, large losses of value in their earnings with the exchange of cryptocurrencies to other currencies, and the payment of high commissions for it, thus achieving that the person can finally perceive the real profit generated in the game.
“The problem is when you want to withdraw these SLP, either to other cryptocurrencies, dollars or Bolivars, since because you have to transform them to Ethereum first, the gas or commission that you have to pay in this blockchain it is usually very high, causing part of the profits to be simply consumed by paying this fee, “they stated from Piiddo.
As stated from Piiddo, Venezuela is in the first place of Latin America and the second in the world, in having a high index of users of this video game, which represents a great opportunity for the company to carry out this initiative and allow the Venezuelan population to have the profits obtained in the game without having to change their tokens, and without wasting money and time in the process.
It should be noted that the delivery company maintains its desire to continue betting on digital currencies within its payment methods within its online platform, therefore, In addition to SLP, it accepts other cryptocurrencies as a payment method, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Dash.
Being this last coin digital (Dash), adopted by the company last year, in partnership with Dash Mall and Parking, an initiative promoted by Dash within the Caribbean country.
As Cointelegraph reported at the time, Piiddo reported the use of Dash as the only digital currency accepted as a payment method within its platform. According to data provided by the company, 273 businesses in the region of Mérida, Venezuela, started last year with this Piiddo project, in accepting cryptocurrencies as a form of payment and as a solution to the banking problems that the country presents.
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