If you caught our announcement earlier this week, you'll know that MiniPay just announced an integration with WalletConnect Pay. We wanted to take a moment to actually get into the specifics– what it is and why it matters for your day to day. 

If you've been using MiniPay for a while, you already know what it can do. Sending money globally in seconds, getting paid from abroad without the fees eating into it, keeping your savings in digital dollars when local currency isn't stable. These are real problems, and MiniPay was built to solve them. 15 million wallets across 60+ countries later so it is fair to say that part is working.

The harder piece of the puzzle has been spending those stablecoins in person — at a shop, a market, a checkout counter. If you have used Pay with MiniPay or any of the integrated Mini Apps that let you spend locally, you will know that in-store spending isn’t completely new to the app. What is new is the scale. Expanding MiniPay’s reach through more merchants and more countries is the goal and with the WalletConnect Pay integration, that has been our endeavor. 

WalletConnect Pay connects wallets to existing merchant payment infrastructure. Through their integration with Ingenico — one of the world's largest payment terminal providers — that's tens of millions of devices across more than 120 countries. Merchants won’t have to change anything. You won’t need to do anything extra. Your MiniPay balance will just work at checkout, the same way it works when you send money to a friend or pay a bill through a Mini App.

We actually tested it ourselves– picked up a few things from a stall, paid with MiniPay, and it worked like magic. Getting a paper receipt for a crypto payment was, honestly, the cherry on top. See it for yourself here!

WalletConnect’s network has processed over $400 billion in transaction volume in 2025 and connects to over 700 compatible wallets across all major blockchains. MiniPay is now part of that.

For us, this is one part of a bigger picture. The payments journey has a lot of different pieces  and no single feature covers all of them. MiniPay already has virtual USD and EUR accounts for receiving international transfers, direct local payment methods for cash-in and cash-out, peer-to-peer payments using just a phone number, and several Mini Apps for everyday utilities and services. Each one is designed to solve a different part of the journey, and WalletConnect Pay adds the piece that's been missing: a way to spend your stablecoin balance where everyday commerce actually happens, without leaving the app or converting to cash first.

There's a lot of momentum in the stablecoin payments space right now, and this past week in Cannes was a good reminder of that. We were there as sponsors of WalletCon, WalletConnect's flagship event dedicated to the future of crypto payments. Alongside that, we were also at EthCC[9], which is Europe‘s largest Ethereum conference. It brought together thousands of developers, founders, and researchers from across the ecosystem. One of our own spoke at a panel there, making the case that companies can build on blockchain without losing sight of what crypto was originally about– self-custody, low fees, accessible to anyone. With MiniPay, that's exactly what we're trying to do.

The goal has always been pretty simple. Digital money that works like money. With this integration, we are getting closer.

Ready to spend your stablecoins where it counts? Download MiniPay today, available on Android and iOS.

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