The Chinese government may have cracked down on bitcoin trading in the country, but this hasn’t deterred many investors desperate for a slice of the bitcoin pie.

WeChat Pay has announced the launch of it’s open platform for overseas merchants. The announcement came in Tokyo in July at the WeChat Pay Overseas Open Conference

Nowadays, ewallets like AliPay and WeChat reign. In the west, consumers are only just starting to get comfortable with using ewallets in brick and mortar shops, rather than just online. Meanwhile in China, a store clerk will ask if you want to pay with Alipay or WeChat, with cash being a third and almost redundant option. In 2016, the value of smartphone payments in China hit $5.5 trillion