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USD at Vave: two help articles that do not agree about the dollar
Vave's help centre answers the dollar question twice, and the answers differ. The article on accepted currencies ends its list with EUR and USD. A second article, on switching between currencies, names eight coins for the balance and no fiat code at all.
Both are short, both are dated September 2023, and both were read at their source. They are the only first-hand material we found, and they are three years old.
Does Vave accept USD?
The article titled “What cryptocurrencies are accepted at Vave?” reads, in full: BTC, ETH, BCH, DOGE, USDT (ERC20, TRC20, Solana), LTC, TRX, XRP, EUR, USD. It is marked as updated in September 2023. There is no “only” in it and no “the following”, so the list names what is accepted without claiming to be complete.
Two fiat codes close the list. That is our basis for saying that Vave names USD, and it is also all that can be said: the article carries no payment methods and no explanation of what a USD entry means for the balance.
Why does the second article leave USD out?
An article dated a few days later explains how to switch between currencies: click the currency or balance button and pick from the drop-down. It adds that Vave offers “several options such as BCH, BTC, DOGE, ETH, LTC, TRX, USDT, and XRP”. The words “such as” make it an example, not a full list, so the two articles do not strictly contradict each other.
It is, however, the only description of the balance switcher we found, and no dollar appears in it. Our reading is that USD is named as an accepted currency, and that the two pages do not say whether it is a balance you can hold or a way of paying that ends up as coins.
What do Vave's printed minimums say about the unit?
The minimum-deposit article, also from September 2023, is a table of coins: Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash at 0.0014965, Ethereum at 0.0109934, and Tether in three routes, TRC20 at 5, Solana at 3 and ERC20 at 19.99145606. There is no row for USD, so no dollar minimum is given anywhere we read.
Those figures are three years old, and operators revise minimums. They are quoted here to show the unit, not to be relied on; the cashier shows the current ones.
What to check before relying on the dollar entry
Open the cashier and look for the unit written beside the balance, then at the deposit options for a dollar. If the drop-down offers only coins, the dollar entry in the older article describes a currency the account may never display.
Questions about USD at Vave
| Is USD on Vave's list of accepted currencies? | Yes, in an article dated September 2023: the list ends with EUR and USD. |
|---|---|
| Does Vave say how a dollar is funded? | Not in the pages we read. The article names no payment method. |
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