Tobacco and vape merchants that have been placed on the MATCH list and are rebuilding their payment infrastructure face a category-specific challenge: the conventional payment processing market for their products was already contracting before the MATCH list placement, and the MATCH list flag further narrows what remains. High risk processors willing to serve MATCH-listed tobacco and vape merchants are fewer than in most other high risk categories, and those that exist impose conditions that reflect both the MATCH list risk premium and the category's increasing difficulty in the conventional processing market.
27 Blockchain's tobacco MATCH list crypto payment processing provides a payment infrastructure that is not subject to the category-level contraction that characterizes the conventional tobacco and vaping payment processing market. The blockchain gateway does not respond to corporate governance frameworks that classify tobacco as an undesirable category, does not carry chargeback exposure that makes tobacco and vape merchant accounts expensive for processors to maintain, and does not exist at the discretion of an acquiring bank whose policy toward the category may change again. For tobacco retailers and vaping businesses on the MATCH list that want to rebuild their payment infrastructure on a foundation that is not subject to the same policy-driven withdrawal risk that generated the original MATCH list placement, the 27 Blockchain crypto payment solution represents a structurally different approach rather than a different provider within the same conventional framework.
