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Payment Network

Send payments like Ripple: instant channels + multi-currency bridge

Merchant Dashboard

Create a merchant account, manage payment channels, track earnings, and withdraw to any chain.

Use Cases

🎮 Gaming Tournaments

Players stake IMUP in channels, winners receive instant payouts

🛍️ E-Commerce

Customers in Japan pay wJPY, merchant in US receives wUSDC automatically

👨‍💼 Freelancer Payments

Open channel with client, receive instant payments, settle weekly

🏦 Bank Settlement

Real-time cross-border settlement (vs hours/days). Uses wEUR, wGBP, wJPY

💰 Remittances

Send money home instantly. Low fees, real exchange rates via DEX

🌐 Micropayments

Per-article/stream pay-per-second model. Channels make this economical

Like Ripple/XRP, But Decentralized

Ripple's Model

  • ✓ Institutions use gateways for currency conversion
  • ✓ XRP used for settlement bridges
  • ✓ Fast (4 second finality)
  • ✗ Centralized consensus validation

IMUPCHAIN Payment Network

  • ✓ Anyone is a gateway (trustless bridges)
  • ✓ IMUP used for settlement + governance
  • ✓ Faster (400ms finality + instant channels)
  • ✓ Sovereign validator network