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EU-Thailand Remittance Corridor Opened on Stellar Blockchain
Velo Labs has joined with TEMPO Payments and Bitazza to facilitate transfers on the Stellar blockchain.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 1:38 p.m. Published Aug 11, 2021, 9:56 a.m.
A remittance corridor has been opened between the 27 European Union (EU) countries and Thailand on the Stellar blockchain.
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- Velo Labs, which is building a global settlement network, has partnered with TEMPO Payments, the EU anchor for Stellar blockchain payments, and Thai crypto trading platform Bitazza to enable the transactions.
- Transactions will leverage Velo's protocol and native VELO token and be settled in seconds on the Stellar blockchain, according to an announcement Wednesday.
- The remittance market between the EU and Thailand connects 600 million customers and is worth around $17 billion, Velo said.
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