Alipay QR Codes: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Power China’s Cashless Payments
Introduction “Scan and pay” is the most ordinary gesture in modern China: a phone camera glances at a black-and-white square, a soft chime rings, and value moves. Beneath that simple ritual sits a dense stack of standards, encryption, tokenization, merchant onboarding flows, risk engines, and settlement ledgers. In this blog, we analyze the QR code—its […]







