{"id":26336,"date":"2022-08-18T14:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=26336"},"modified":"2022-08-18T14:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:48:31","slug":"mercadolibre-to-create-cryptocurrency-as-part-of-loyalty-program-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=26336","title":{"rendered":"MercadoLibre to create cryptocurrency as part of loyalty program | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>SAO PAULO (Reuters) -South American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre Inc on Thursday announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency called MercadoCoin, which will be implemented as part of its loyalty program.<\/p>\n<p>MercadoLibre told a news conference clients will earn MercadoCoins as cashback when buying products on the e-commerce platform.<\/p>\n<p>They will then be able to use the digital currency, which follows Ethereum\u2019s ERC-20 token standard, for fresh purchases or trade it on the company\u2019s financial services unit MercadoPago.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Andre Romani; Writing by Gabriel Araujo; Editing by Steven Grattan and Tomasz Janowski)<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kfgo.com\/2022\/08\/18\/mercadolibre-to-create-cryptocurrency-as-part-of-loyalty-program\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO (Reuters) -South American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre Inc on Thursday announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency called MercadoCoin, which will be implemented as part of its loyalty program. MercadoLibre told a news conference clients will earn MercadoCoins as cashback when buying products on the e-commerce platform. They will then be able to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[1129,52,10561,4653,4095,10560,934,995],"class_list":["post-26336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-create","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-kfgo","tag-loyalty","tag-mercadolibre","tag-mighty","tag-part","tag-program"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-18T133040Z_1_LYNXMPEI7H0L3_RTROPTP_3_MERCADOLIBRE-MEXICO.JPG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26338,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26336\/revisions\/26338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}