What will be incentives for the merchants to start using AGATE? Do you already have interested parties?
Thanks for asking this great question as Merchant are the most important part of Agate stakeholders (in business side).
there are several reasons which merchants love Agate include but not limited to:
1- There is no complication for them to accept crypto currency, they don't need to know anything about blockchain, wallet, exchange ,... they simply using either App or physical POS terminal and can request to transfer in their bank account or Debit card seamlessly
2- the biggest problem for merchant is volatility, if they see something and accept any crypto and tomorrow , next week or next month they wanna pay for rent, staff, bills, supplier ,.... there is no guarantee after exchange it fiat they get the same value whereas in Agate they exactly get what they sold and regardless of crypto price the value always stay the same.
3- unlike other app or coins they don't need to waiting from 10min to few hours to receive the fund as in Agate payments are instant . (1-3 Sec)
4- right now in different countries when merchant accepting fund they should pay between %1 to %8 to payment processor where in Agate is $0 (because user pay for transaction fee $0.00076)
5- integration for online websites is easy in 3min and over 80% of all ecommrece platform (Woocommerce, Magento, ,...) can accept via Agate by installing our free app/plugins (please refer to Github)
I hope I could answer your question but if you need to know more please refer to our WP as we mentioned many other reasons and example in there