Major american cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has introduced freed from charge money withdrawals to on-line payment system PayPal, in keeping with an announcement revealed Dec. 14.

From currently on, Coinbase’s United States-based customers are able to withdraw their money balances to Paypal. The service for alternative countries can reportedly be unrolled some time in 2019.

Coinbase and PayPal previously integrated in 2016, once Coinbase added support for the payment platform additionally to major credit cards. At the time, Coinbase users were able to sell Bitcoin (BTC) and have their fiat funds deposited to a PayPal wallet. the mixing was later terminated because of technical difficulties.

With this move, Coinbase has increased its range of services, that has been actively increasing over the past several months. This month, the exchange began “exploring” the chance of providing trading support for thirty one cryptocurrencies. Potential new additions include Ripple (XRP), Eos and Cardano (ADA). Coinbase “will be operating with native banks and regulators to feature them in as several jurisdictions as attainable.”

As Top Market group reported in September, Coinbase declared a brand new method that may supposedly permit it to list additional digital assets quicker. Issuers who need to submit tokens at Coinbase via the freshly adopted method could need to use a special type, which can later be evaluated by the exchange team against their digital quality framework.

In November, Coinbase launched over-the-counter (OTC) trading for institutional customers. Christine Sandler, head of sales at Coinbase, disclosed that the unlisted service is probably going to be combined with Coinbase Custody, a service crypto custodian tool for institutional investors launched on July 2, 2018.

In March, PayPal filed a patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office (USPTO) to extend the speed of cryptocurrency payments. The patent describes an “Expedited Virtual Currency transaction System”, involving the employment of secondary personal keys to shorten wait times for transactions between customers and merchants.

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