| Bolt | Features | Coingate |
|---|---|---|
| San Fransisco, California, USA | HQ Based | Lithuania |
| Settlements | ||
| Bolt keeps a list of supported merchants on their website | Supported Merchants | |
| 1.8% of transaction | Fee structure | |
| Bank fees | ||
| Currencies | Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tron, Ripple, Cardano and many other ERC20 tokens | |
| Payment Methods | ||
| Yes, via Recurly or other recurring payment services | Recurring Payments | |
| Developer Friendly | ||
| Apple Pay Support | ||
| Point of Sale Support | ||
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | ||
Founded in the USA in 2014, Bolt was created to set a new standard for eCommerce.
The team at Bolt spent over 2 years before launching their first version of their Checkout product.
Bolt got serious VC traction starting around 2016, where they raised over $215M in VC Funding and growing their team significantly.
Bolt now has a ‘CheckoutOS’ which consists of products that include checkout, payment and fraud detection.
Customers of Bolt include Akira, Forever 21 and Solo Stove.
Founded in 2014 under the name ‘Virtualios Valiutos’, Coingate spent a year building their product before going live in 2015.
By 2018 Coingate also offers Ethereum and Litecoin payments.
In 2019 the company changed their name one last time before turning into Coingate to ‘Decentralized’.