Google, Apple and more adopt Crypto-Ready API

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with the help of major tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and Mozilla have created a browser API that would facilitate the purchase of online goods and services with cryptocurrency, in the near future.  

This work marks a tangible move towards a currency-agnostic web payment standard, that was first advocated for by W3C in 2013, and highlights the growing recognition of cryptocurrency as a payments technology.

Announced on September 14^th 2017, the API is being implemented in browsers including Google's Chrome, Microsoft's Edge, Apple’s Webkit, Mozilla’s Firefox, the Samsung Internet Browser and Facebook's in-app browser.