Ukrainian pharmacies enable crypto payments via Binance Pay

Pharmacies successful Ukraine are embracing integer payments amid the ongoing war, with a large section pharmacy concatenation enabling payments successful cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin (BTC).

ANC Pharmacy, 1 of the biggest pharmacy chains successful Ukraine, has partnered with Binance Ukraine to debut cryptocurrency payments via contactless crypto outgo work Binance Pay.

Starting from Jan. 3, ANC Pharmacy enabled its customers to proceed with instant payments portion purchasing pharmacy products online, the pharmacy concatenation officially announced connected Tuesday.

ANC Pharmacy operates much than 1,000 pharmacies crossed Ukraine, moving its ain online pharmacy service. According to an authoritative announcement, Binance Pay payments volition beryllium initially rolled retired successful pharmacies successful Kyiv.

The caller outgo diagnostic volition beryllium disposable astatine ANC pharmacies arsenic good arsenic ANC Pharmacy-operated pharmacy stores similar Kopiyka and Shara. “ANC, Kopiyka and Shara are the archetypal pharmacies successful Europe to judge crypto,” the authoritative announcement stated.

In bid to proceed with a crypto outgo astatine ANC pharmacies, users request to download the Binance exertion and past spell to the ANC.ua website. After choosing a merchandise to bid online, users volition beryllium capable to wage utilizing Binance Pay work and prime up the bid astatine a preferred pharmacy.

A spokesperson for Binance Ukraine did not instantly respond to Cointelegraph’s petition to comment.

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Binance has been actively pushing its beingness successful Ukraine implicit the past fewer years. In September 2022, Binance besides partnered with the Ukrainian supermarket concatenation Varus, allowing customers to wage for market purchases done its Binance Pay Wallet.

In aboriginal February 2022 — oregon weeks earlier Russian forces invaded Ukraine — Binance Ukraine’s wide manager Kirill Khomyakov told Cointelegraph that launching a Binance Card successful Ukraine was 1 of Binance’s apical priorities for 2022.

According to Khomyakov, crypto payments via services similar Binance Card bash not struggle with Ukrainian laws due to the fact that determination is nary prohibition connected crypto-derived transactions successful Ukraine. At the aforesaid time, section laws bash not let nonstop payments successful cryptocurrencies similar Bitcoin.