Overview

A multi-chain web3 payments provider, Xion Global offers a suite of payment products to exchange and reward payments globally. 

As a Web3 payment infrastructure company, Xion enables the banking, commerce, and gaming industries to send and receive payments across various blockchain networks. Their objective is to deliver interoperability to the fragmented Web3 payment space.

The Xion API caters to custom workflows and payment types that are fit for various tech stacks. It expedites the seamless integration of crypto payments into consumers' applications by providing various resources, including SDKs and iFrames. It supports major cryptocurrencies, including BTC, LTC, DASH, BCH, XRP, ETH, USDT, USDC, XGT, and any EVM-compatible tokens.

Challenges

A significant challenge developers face when working with multiple cryptocurrencies is crafting an abstraction for various web3 libraries to allow clients to use and create existing crypto wallets. The long-term goal of building SDKs is to enable traditional companies to streamline their onboarding process into web3.

Initially, Xion Global wanted to build SDKs themselves. However, this took a lot of work to implement, as each SDK would have taken them a few months to build. This required significant investments in hiring engineers well-versed in multiple languages and a lot of time. They sought to automate their SDKs to avoid consuming their entire development roadmap with building documentation, code libraries, and more.

Results

Xion Global selected APIMatic to accelerate the creation and reduce the maintenance cost of their SDKs along with language specific documentation and code samples. 

Xion is already seeing results with developers who are able to fully self-board their APIs. SDKs have made it easier to consume the Xion API, where developers use the web view in conjunction with the SDKs to process web3 payments.

Some of the key problems solved with APIMatic include: 

- Improve self-service onboarding of new developers.
- Reduced amount of customer support required
- Keep documentation and SDKs in sync as our API evolves
- Reach more developer communities with broader language support

The Xion TypeScript SDK is seeing significant usage by their corporate payment service provider clients, followed by Java and C#. They selected TypeScript for its diverse range of applicability and C# because Xion Global aims to offer multi-chain and multi-party payment gateway integration for any metaverse or gaming experience built on the Unity platform. Xion is actively working towards a verified listing for crypto for Unity developers, and SDKs built with APIMatic are crucial to reaching this developer community.

Next Steps

Xion Global’s developer experience continues to thrive through faster and frictionless onboarding as they focus on supporting more than 1 million clients in Africa with web3 payments, starting with a partnership with Scan to Pay (700k+ merchants, 94 PSPs and 14 FSPs in South Africa) powered by Ukheshe. Additionally, Xion Global plans to facilitate payments for the Unity developers community. This means helping 7 million Unity developers process web3 payments within their games. APIMatic continues participating in this experience through its robust SDKs, including comprehensive multi-lingual documentation and code samples.