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For your convenience, ALFAcoins fixes the rate for 15 minutes. It means if you send the funds within 15 minutes and the transaction goes into the network, the rate remains the same, even if your transaction "gets stuck".

ALFAсoins uses a cryptocurrency rate system based on the market depth of multiple exchanges, thereby providing merchants with the best rate.

In order to send funds using ALFAcoins, you need to:

  • Be a registered user.
  • Log in with your account.
  • Go to the Send page.
  • Select the cryptocurrency in which the funds will be sent (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Dash, XRP).
  • Enter the amount to be received in a Base account currency (the cryptocurrency amount will be automatically calculated).
  • Enter the address of the recipient.
  • Write an optional message to your recipient.
  • ​Click "Send" button.

Fees for the use of Wallet or Merchant Service are charged on each transaction.


Wallet: 0.99% - You pay for completed transactions only.

Merchant: 0.99% - You are free to either include it in the price of goods (services) or to charge a commission to your client over and above the price of the goods (services).


Our current fees are available here.

Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dash, Tether ERC-20, and XRP.

You can receive payments from any country except:

  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Bangladesh
  • Bolivia
  • Сentral African Republic
  • Cambodia
  • Cuba
  • Egypt
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Maldives
  • Morocco
  • Namibia
  • Nepal
  • North Korea
  • Pakistan
  • Sudan
  • Syria
  • Somalia
  • ​Venezuela

ALFAcoins maintains the right to restrict or refuse its services in these jurisdictions.

If your business is legal and involves accepting payments, you can use the ALFAcoins service.*


* ALFAcoins reserves the right to refuse to enter into business relations with any existing or prospective Merchant at any time, at its own discretion. In case of doubt, please contact the Support Team and tell us more about your business.

You can start using ALFAcoins absolutely free.

ALFAcoins is a modern, multi-functional and secure electronic payment system.


ALFAcoins for Personal Use: Use multi-cryptocurrency secure online wallet. Exchange, store and spend cryptocurrency.

ALFAcoins for Business: Integrate cryptocurrency payments on your website without complications.


A wallet is used to manage private keys. There are wallets for desktop computers, mobile phones and browsers, enabling users to manage funds and interact with smart contract blockchains like Ethereum.
To pay miners for the work of ordering transactions and verifying blocks, sending bitcoin costs a certain amount of transaction fee. This fee may vary over time, as it is defined by the demand for transactions.
A bitcoin transaction is an entry on the bitcoin blockchain ledger, noting sender, receiver and amount of bitcoin transacted.
The hash function used in the bitcoin mining process to verify transactions.
The inventor of bitcoin, which might be one person or a group of persons who released the original bitcoin whitepaper in 2008.
A graphical representation of a public or private key. Scanning QR codes is a simple way to share keys between devices, especially desktop computers and mobile phones.
A public key can be used by anyone to encrypt messages for a particular recipient. In Bitcoin, this key enables anyone to receive bitcoin.
Proof of Stake (POS) was created as an alternative to Proof of Work (POW), supporting cheaper and faster transactions, by requiring a certain amount of coins to be locked up in order for the network to reach consensus. POS is seen as less risky in terms of the potential for miners to attack the network.
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