{"id":65257,"date":"2022-08-02T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T16:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65257"},"modified":"2025-09-06T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T15:57:12","slug":"gucci-starts-accepting-apecoin-as-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/gucci-starts-accepting-apecoin-as-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Gucci starts accepting ApeCoin as payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian fashion house Gucci has added support for ApeCoin.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now accepting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/apecoin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ApeCoin<\/a> payments via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitPay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BitPay<\/a>, select Gucci boutiques in the USA expand the range ofcryptocurrencies available for in-store purchases, yet another step in the House&#8217;s exploration of Web3.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 gucci (@gucci) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gucci\/status\/1554465183212478468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new option is being rolled out in some stores in the United States through a partnership with the processing service BitPay. According to Gucci representatives, this is another step in exploring <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ApeCoin cryptocurrency is tied to the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT project from Yuga Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Gucci became the first merchant to support APE via BitPay&#8217;s processing. BitPay has been active in the market since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In April, reports emerged that Gucci and other fashion brands <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/smi-gucci-i-drugie-modnye-brendy-skoro-vypustyat-svoi-nft\/\">are planning to release their own NFTs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Italian fashion house <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/gucci-to-start-accepting-cryptocurrency-payments\">announced a pilot project<\/a> to accept digital-asset payments in five U.S. stores.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/post\/153785\/gucci-buys-into-superrare-dao-eyes-new-virtual-art-space\">joined<\/a> a decentralized autonomous organization through a partnership with the NFT marketplace SuperRare and acquired 150,000 RARE tokens.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier Gucci acquired a virtual plot of land in the metaverse of The Sandbox.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian fashion house Gucci has added support for ApeCoin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1356],"class_list":["post-65257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65259,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions\/65259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}