CrossPay

Inspiration

Merchants globally get charged through the roof for being able to accept Credit Card in their stores.

Growing up my parents had convenience stores and I witnessed the amount they would be charged for allowing customers to pay using their Credit Card. Today merchants can be charged from anywhere near 1.5% - 3.5% of the payment with a minimum monthly fee.

These kind of charges can be crippling for smaller merchants that do not generate enough volume and unfortunately a lot of developing nation merchants are not able to accept Debit Card payments at all.

The experience of signing transactions today using hardware wallets & seed phrases will not take us to the next billion users. We need to be able to securely

With the release of Passkeys, It can drastically change the UX of signing transactions. A large impactful solution would be to allow users to create "virtual" wallets with daily limits and being able to sign those transactions on the go using your fingerprint. Similar to how Apple or Google Pay handle transactions.

What it does

The application allows customers & merchants to transact easily without the merchant knowing about crypto & without the customer having to stress about getting hacked.

Currently merchants are put off with accepting crypto so giving them the option to accept payment direct to fiat reduces the burden of increasing crypto use-cases.

Currently customers are not able to pay for goods in stores due to lack of pro-crypto merchants & wallet security being poor. The user can set a daily allowance for the smart contract wallet to be able to spend from their main wallet (ideally a multisig that has plenty of assets).

Biometric Account Abstraction

A smart contract wallet is created which will act as the "virtual card" with a daily allowance. Transactions on this wallet can ONLY be signed using your fingerprint or face ID.

Cross Chain

CCIP allows customers to pay on any CCIP enabled chain & the merchant is paid out using Monerium to handle the SEPA transfer on-chain.

NFC (Arx Chips)

Arx's NFC chips have a ECDSA Private Key in them so that allows us to add a registry of merchants in the system.

How we built it

The mobile app was created using React Native.
CCIP was used to allow customers to pay merchants cross-chain
Utilising Stackup's Userop & eth-infinitism's AA stack to create the transactions https://github.com/eth-infinitism/account-abstraction
A ERC4337 account signing schema was extended to work with passkeys (biometric signing) and paymaster implemented for improved UX
A daily allowance module was added to the 4337 account to ensure stress fee daily payments
Private communication channels are setup between the customer and merchant using Waku
Arx chips are used to securely identify merchants, link redirecting and transferring payment information.
WalletConnect was used to connect a users wallet to our app
Monerium's SDK was used for crypto to fiat off-ramping in the payments flow

Challenges we ran into

React Native applications come with a lot of baggage when trying to deal with current crypto packages that are suited towards web applications.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The ability to allow merchants to receive payment direct to their bank account, this means the merchant doesn't need to be crypto native to start accepting payments!!