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TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says

The feature would let users send money in direct messages through TikTok Pay, with code showing tap-to-accept payments and message notes.

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If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.

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TikTok is exploring a resource that would allow users to send money to each other through direct messages, in an initiative that would expand the strategy of the social media application to advance in the financial services sector. The resource, which is still under development, if launched, would use TikTok Pay, a service already available in Southeast Asia, to process transactions. Evidence of novelty was found in hidden code excerpts in the c…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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TikkTok Pay is currently only available in Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, and is used to pay for purchases at TikTok Shop

·Bogota, Colombia
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Seeking Alpha broke the news in Ra'anana, Israel on Tuesday, August 18, 2026.
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