NOWPayments is releasing another round of improvements aimed at making the platform smoother, faster, and more secure. This update focuses on strengthening payout safety, improving overall performance, refining how payouts are handled in the background, and giving users clearer guidance when something goes wrong. We’ve improved the whitelisting experience, fixed long-standing bugs, and polished several behind-the-scenes systems to keep things running reliably.
What’s New?
This release delivers several important refinements designed to increase platform stability, boost performance, and improve clarity for users. The updates focus on payout security, better error messaging, faster system behavior, and a more streamlined whitelisting flow. Each change targets areas where users previously faced friction or confusion, ensuring a smoother and more reliable payment experience.
Fix for Payments to Non-Whitelisted Addresses
What’s Changed:
- Fixed a bug that allowed payouts to addresses not in the whitelist.
- Added checks to ensure only valid currency and amount values are used.
Why It Matters:
- This improves security and ensures payouts are sent to the correct addresses.
Performance Improvements
What’s Changed:
- Optimized the style code across the platform for better performance.
- Faster Sass build process for quicker updates.
Why It Matters:
- These updates make the platform run faster and improve maintenance.
Payouts Service Enhancements
What’s Changed:
- A new system checks stuck payouts and updates their status regularly, preventing delays.
Why It Matters:
- This helps ensure payouts are processed on time.
Improved Error Messaging for Minimum Crypto Amounts
What’s Changed:
- If a payment falls below the minimum amount for a coin, users now receive a clear error message explaining the issue.
Why It Matters:
- This helps users understand what went wrong and avoid mistakes.
Whitelisting Flow Updates
What’s Changed:
- Streamlined the process for adding/removing addresses from the whitelist, making it easier for users to manage their whitelist.
Why It Matters:
- This simplifies the whitelisting process and improves the user experience.
Benefits of the New Features
- Improved Whitelisting: The new whitelisting flow and validation prevent errors and improve security.
- Payouts Service: Regular checks for stuck payouts ensure faster and more reliable payout processing.
- Performance Enhancements: Backend optimizations ensure faster page loads and smoother interactions.
Conclusion
With these improvements, NOWPayments becomes more secure, more responsive, and easier to manage. Stronger payout protections, clearer error messages, faster performance, and a smoother whitelisting flow all work together to reduce friction and boost reliability. These updates help businesses handle payments with more confidence and keep operations running without unnecessary delays or confusion.