Payzum Blog · Topic · 10 articles

High-risk industries

Payments for licensed operators in industries that card processors often refuse or freeze, such as iGaming, telehealth, CBD and precious metals: chargebacks, reserves and how non-custodial stablecoin payments compare. Not legal advice.

iGaming

High-Risk Merchant Account Alternative for iGaming

Rolling reserves, 8–10% fees, chargeback ratios and overnight terminations: what high-risk acquiring really costs an iGaming operator — and how licensed operators sidestep it with non-custodial stablecoin payments.

12 min read
CBD & hemp brands

Crypto payments for CBD businesses — a rail with no account to freeze

Hemp is an ordinary agricultural commodity on paper and a permanent underwriting problem in practice: a legal, licensed CBD brand gets classified high-risk, quoted a premium rate, held to a rolling reserve, and terminated on a Friday with the ad spend still running. Payzum is a non-custodial, crypto-only processor: customers pay USDC or USDT straight to a wallet you control — no acquirer, no reserve, no payout schedule, no chargebacks and no balance for a risk desk to hold. Checkout, subscriptions, wholesale invoices, a QR at the storefront and one CSV for your affiliates.

22 min read
Esports & Tournaments

Crypto Payments for Esports Tournaments: Pay Prizes Fast

A tournament is two payment problems pointing in opposite directions: hundreds of small entry fees coming in, and a prize table going out to players in a dozen countries who are still waiting six weeks later. Entry links and hosted checkout for registrations, expiring invoices for sponsors and team slots, POS QR at the LAN, and the whole prize table paid in one stablecoin batch — non-custodial, to a wallet your org controls.

21 min read
Telehealth

Crypto payments for telehealth — the consult ends, the dispute window shouldn't

A remote consult is the most disputable transaction in healthcare: no premises, no signature, no delivery proof, and a defense that asks you to hand clinical detail to a card network. Hosted checkout and payment links per consult, invoices with expiration for treatment plans, recurring billing for care memberships, and same-day stablecoin payouts to a clinician panel spread across a dozen countries — settled non-custodially to a wallet your practice controls, with optional auto-convert to USDC or USDT.

21 min read
Forex & Prop Trading

Crypto Payments for Prop Trading Firms: Fees In, Payouts Out

Challenge fees are digital goods with no delivery proof — the easiest transaction in payments to dispute. Here's how prop firms collect evaluation fees with on-chain finality and pay trader profit splits in stablecoins, non-custodial, without an acquirer or a rolling reserve.

17 min read
Medical Tourism

Crypto Payments for Medical Tourism Clinics: No Wires

A patient in another country agrees to a $6,000 treatment package, then spends nine days trying to get an international wire past two compliance departments while the surgical slot sits unconfirmed. Deposits by payment link that confirm in seconds from any country, expiring invoices for treatment packages, a QR at the front desk for the balance on arrival, and same-day payouts to facilitators, translators and visiting specialists — settled non-custodially to a wallet your clinic controls.

18 min read
iGaming

Affiliate Payouts for Casinos in Stablecoins

Wires that cost $30 a transfer, e-wallet accounts that close overnight, payout thresholds that hold your partners' money for months: what paying casino affiliates really costs — and how licensed operators replace it with one non-custodial USDC/USDT batch.

13 min read