Consumers can fill up their ChangeJar through Interac e-transfers or by exchanging physical cash at Canada Post. The company’s goal is to help food and beverage retailers avoid having to incur the prohibitive commissions and transaction fees of other take-out and delivery apps like UberEats, Ritual, and Skip the Dishes.ĬhangeJar’s services are based on mobile cash, not credit or debit cards, allowing the company to eliminate high processing fees.
Toronto-based ChangeJar, which builds mobile commerce platforms for retailers, announced that its mobile services will now be available to food and beverage retailers.ĬhangeJar’s services include Order Ahead, which allows customers to skip the line with pre-ordering and payment from a mobile menu for take-out or dine-in services Team Perks, which allows coffee shops and restaurants to partner with local businesses for employee discounts on coffee and food and Scan & Go, which enables self-checkouts for low-cost, high-frequency items like soft drinks. ChangeJar opens up mobile commerce services for food and beverage retailers Here’s the latest on these company updates. Several Canadian FinTechs have made announcements on the growth of their companies, launching new features and partnerships. “Decentralized communication will specifically address such issues as data security challenges, the lack of privacy, the ability to be compromised or blocked, and the lack of global access, all of which are typical challenges with centralized communication.”īuy Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies on Coinsquare, Canada’s most secure trading platform.Share on: Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email “Decentralization leads to innovative, secure, and advanced methods of information sharing and communication,” the team added. With the backing of several VC groups and its team of advisors, the company hopes to deliver on using decentralized technologies to give users ownership of their own data. Its other advisors include Jeff Pulver, the co-founder of Vonage Jinius Tu, the CTO of Aion and Kevin Xu, the founder of Block VC.
The team is advised by leading industry figures like Anthony Diiorio, the co-founder of Ethereum and CEO and founder of Decentral. Today, the company boasts more than 40 employees and several international patent claims. The newly announced network is the product of Skrumble Technologies, a Toronto-based company that opened in 2014. Skrumble Network and their Toronto-based approach “Skrumble Network will democratize communication on a global scale and give users back ownership of their own data,” the statement added.Īccording to the team, this proprietary communication technology will improve data privacy and security, allowing users to transact and connect directly with one another. Overall, the move is designed to grant global access to a communication system that ensures users retain their data and privacy in a secure way. Skrumble Technologies is creating the Skrumble Network, a new blockchain that aims to create the “most secure communications possible.” In addition, the team is developing a decentralized application (dApp) that will purportedly boast features like messaging, video & file sharing, in-app digital currency trading, and smart contracts. “Facebook recently has had 86 million accounts compromised, over 70 million Telegram accounts have had data leaked, and WhatsApp was hacked in January.”
“With recent massive data crises, the need for secure data that is owned by users has never been stronger,” said Skrumble Technologies, in a statement. This is observable in the blockchain industry as a whole, as well as in the decentralized digital currencies that the industry gave birth to. The desire for users to retain more control of their digital lives often drives the push towards democratizing technologies. “Creating the most secure communications possible” for data crises Now, a press release from Skrumble Technologies outlined how the Toronto-based company is aiming to solve the world’s ‘data crises’ using blockchain technology. Innovative projects and startups continue to bolster Canada’s blockchain ecosystem.
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