This document discusses faster payments on the blockchain. It begins with introductions and an overview of payments challenges. It then discusses why blockchain can help with faster payments through case studies. Several companies describe how using blockchain APIs from BlockCypher helped reduce costs, increase speeds and security for payments use cases like payroll, remittances, fraud prevention and identity management. The document concludes with contact information for next steps.
6. “The lack of a real-time, or faster-payment
system puts U.S. businesses and
consumers at a disadvantage”
“Technology is rapidly changing many elements that
support the payment process…This is changing the
nature of commerce and end-user expectations for
payment services.”
June 6th
, 2016
NACHA Government Relations: Faster Payments in the United States
January 26th, 2015
Strategies for improving US Payment System
8. A new reality…
IOS 10 offers
(Bitcoin)
Payments directly
integrated in
iMessage
eMarketer forecasting
210% growth in the
total value of mobile
payment transactions
in 2016—up to $27.05
billion from $8.71
billion
9. • Desktops
• Mobile devices
• Servers
• Watch
• IOT
• Device to Device
• Customers
• Employees
• Governments
• Things
• Bank Platform
• Cloud
• Private Network
• Public Ledger
• Micro Payments
• Smart Contracts
• Multi-Signatures
Any Device
Any User
Any Platform
Any Service
11. Reduce Cost
Increase Revenue
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Reduce Risk
Increase Speed and
Customer Satisfaction
$12B Estimate Savings on Clearing Costs
(Goldman Sachs)
$10B Global spend on AML compliance
New Fee Revenue Stream connecting Smart
Contracts to Payment Services
“Capgemini Payment Around the World Experiment”
( 4 Cities / 1 Hour )
14. Company Challenges
● Legacy infrastructure
● Expensive, slow partner onboarding
● Fickle customer retention
● Lack of usable and scalable
blockchain testing environment
User Challenges
● Bank wires can take weeks, slow
processing
● High transfer fees and exchange
rates
● Currency fluctuations
Faster, Lower Cost
15. Payments and Rewards
Address API
Transaction API I
Merchant
Customers
Benefits
● $5.2M in fraud
prevention
● $2.2M in salary savings
● 35% faster time to
market
● Improved code
maintenance
Solution
● Faster, more secure and
user- friendly digital
payments
● BlockCypher Ethereum
APIs used to process
payments, fraud checks
16. Payroll
Solution
● Bitwage provides
platform for payroll and
invoicing
● BlockCypher validates
addresses, identifies
transactions likely to
confirm
Benefits
● Faster time to market
● Payments within 2 days
● 30+% in cost savings
due to automation
● Faster clearing and
settlement
Invoice
Next Day
Payment
Address API
Transaction API I
17. P2P Payments
Solution
● Abra enables person to
send payment to any
mobile phone
● BlockCypher provides
notifications (e.g. for
payments) and test
environment
Benefits
● Users protected from
market volatility
● Faster deposits
● ~30% development cost
savings from using
BlockCypher’s test
environment and
notifications
Deposit $200
(XBT spot at 200)
Send $200
(XBT spot at 160)
Lender
(XBT spot at 160)
XBT down 20%,
Abra holding 1.25 XBT
BCY
Webhooks
18. Company Challenges
● Anti-fraud catch up
● Lack of preventative, monitoring
systems
● Need to identify intentional double
spends
● High cost of fraud
User Challenges
● New account fraud increased 113%,
now 20% of all fraud
● 72% of loyalty program managers
experiences issues related to fraud
Secure
20. B2B Payments
Solution
● Blinktrade provides
platform for instant
transactions on
blockchain
● BlockCypher quickly
identifies fraud and
transactions likely to
confirm
Benefits
● Users receive credit to
trade immediately
● Faster deposits
● 33% in cost savings due
to automation
● Fraud identified
● Easier for Blinktrade to
acquire partners
Exchange
Confidence Factor
Double Spend Webhook
Transaction API
Deposit
Credit
21. “There are only a handful of companies that provide [blockchain]
services. BlockCypher is excellent. Their product is simpler to
implement and works better than other services. We also think
highly of the team.
We will continue to need more services to interact with the
Blockchain, and we’d much rather use BlockCypher’s services than
build our own.“
- Wences Casares
B2C Payments
22. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Transportation Security Administration.
United States Coast Guard.
National Protection and Programs Directorate.
United States Secret Service.
Data Management and Analytics
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
25. Identity Management
Solution
● User manages identity
(e.g. biometrics) on
Shocard mobile app
● BlockCypher publishes
identity to blockchain
Benefits
● 6 months saved in ramp
up time
● 35% costs saved in
development
● Increased scalability and
reliability
● Improved code
maintenance
Transaction API
Authentication
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Performance at Scale
● Multiple blockchains on same
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● Multiple datacenters
● No single point of failure
● Secure & hardened servers
● Linear scaling
● Uptime 99.999+%
Cloud-optimized, enterprise-grade
blockchain infrastructure
Blockchain-agnostic
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