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-# shopify
-Integrations with shopify
+# Welcome to our Cardano e-commerce integration project
+
+This project aims to build Cardano integrations with [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/?ref=univocity) 
+and enable online shops and customers to exchange ADA for goods with 0 fees and commissions.
+
+We are going to release and maintain an official [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/?ref=univocity) app, which will be immediately 
+accessible to more than 500,000 online businesses around the world. Our hope
+is to slowly introduce Cardano into this marketplace - which currently generates
+around 870K dollars per minute in sales.
+
+In the interest of decentralization, more advanced users will be able to build and deploy 
+this project to their own servers and run the Cardano integration app in their own stores,
+independently of the official app we are going to release.
+
+Source code and documentation will start to flow on as soon as the `SHOP` pool starts
+generating rewards on the cardano mainnet.  
+
+There is a lot of development to be done. Please come back and check this 
+repository weekly to see what's happening.
+
+We will investigate how to enable integration with other online stores backed by other platforms
+such as Magento, BigCommerce, etc once the [Shopify](https://www.shopify.com/?ref=univocity) app is ready for production.
+
+> "We are Cardano, and if you'll permit us, we'd like to change the world."
+
+## Supporting our project
+
+This is an open-source, not for profit initiative, and we are looking for support
+from the community through:
+
+ * stake pool delegation: simply delegate your ADA to our stake pool **`SHOP`**. Fees on
+  rewards produced by the **`SHOP`** pool will be used to help financing the long term
+  development and maintenance of this project, and others to come.
+
+ * **<a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/sponsors/jbax" data-icon="octicon-heart" aria-label="Sponsor @jbax on GitHub">sponsoring</a>** me here on github.
+
+ * **direct donations**, via:
+
+   * **Paypal** - just click [![paypal](https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_SM.gif)](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JKH3JNHLL4Y42&source=url) 
+
+   * **ADA**: on `addr1qy77cfgccmcfe9h936qunl4u36hyrwryrmzj6duug9sm73tdd0sqyslnjxvce9syyw4ktnrh0n7ct60zrs29wnef3jqq202748`
+
+   * **Bitcoin**: on `3BcmUPTPfLDuYWWSBxGKkChkq5WMzC94J6`
+
+  * or even affiliate links:
+
+     * **[Coinmama](https://go.coinmama.com/visit/?bta=56730&brand=coinmama)** for buying
+        and selling ADA among other crypto currencies. This is not an exchange and you get your tokens pretty fast.
+
+     * **[Binance](https://www.binance.com/en/register?ref=36767892)** for trading - 
+        and if you can code you can even build automated trading robots for binance
+        using my other project [univocity-trader](https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-trader)
+
+
+Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support!