Walmart Submits Patent For Stablecoin
Look out Facebook, retail giant Walmart filed for a patent for a “System and Method for digital currency via blockchain” back in January, 2019. In essence, they have proposed their very own stablecoin. The abstract of the patent application states that the method of their digital currency will be equal to a regular currency, specifically the U.S. Dollar. The method behind this digital currency is blockchain technology that will allow overlaying the digital currency unit with a customer’s purchase history which could also calculate savings and potentially apply those savings to the customer purchases, and to use its cryptocurrency for…