The Daily: 13% of Shoppers Would Buy Amazon Crypto, Wirex Adds Stablecoin

In Thursday’s edition of The Daily we feature a recent survey that shows 13 percent of shoppers would be happy to buy cryptocurrencies under the Amazon brand. We also cover a new stablecoin integration by crypto card provider Wirex and a token promoted on Coinbase Earn.

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Survey: 13% of Shoppers Would Buy Amazon Crypto

Online commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has one of the strongest brands in the world. What started out as just an online bookstore has become almost a force of nature, taking over entire industries. The company also enjoys a great deal of trust with consumers, especially in the U.S. market where some people allow Amazon to unlock their front doors to make in-home delivery (Amazon Key), install its AI-powered listening devices (Alexa) and even to run the cloud computing systems of the CIA.

It would be fair to say that Amazon is more trusted and liked than most banks. Given this fact, it is not surprising that a good portion of its customers would also trust Amazon with their digital finance needs. A recent survey of over 1,000 Amazon clients by the financial portal Investing.com found that 12.7 percent of them would feel comfortable purchasing cryptocurrencies under the Amazon brand. This could be assumed to be anything from an integrated cryptocurrency wallet to an Amazon-issued token.

Wirex Adds First Stablecoin

Popular online bank and crypto debit card issuer Wirex has added a first stablecoin to its list of supported cryptocurrencies. Users of the Wirex platform in the European Economic Area (EEA) can now buy, store, convert and spend dai (DAI) with their Wirex Visa cards, the U.K.-based company announced in a recent blog post. This is the seventh token made available for Wirex users as the service already supports bitcoin core (BTC), litecoin (LTC), ripple (XRP), ether (ETH), waves (WAVES) and wollo (WLO).

“We want to give our customers access to a full array of cryptocurrencies. Stablecoins are yet another variation of crypto that demonstrates how easily and efficiently it can be integrated into everyday life,” commented Wirex co-founder Pavel Matveev. His co-founder Dmitry Lazarichev added: “Dai is an excellent tool to make international payments at low costs without the volatility. The token feeds into our ethos of enabling mainstream crypto adoption by streamlining traditional and cryptocurrencies. Dai is a solid addition to our existing cryptocurrency portfolio.”

Coinbase Takes a Swing With BAT

Back in December, Coinbase announced an initiative meant to incentive people to learn more about cryptocurrencies. The Coinbase Earn educational platform rewards users with tokens for completing various tasks such as watching videos and taking quizzes on crypto-related content. On Wednesday a section on Basic Attention Token (BAT) was added to the service, offering users the opportunity earn up to $10 worth of BAT in the process of learning about it.

The Coinbase Earn team explained to those new to BAT that “Basic Attention Token seeks to improve the efficiency of digital advertising with a token that can be exchanged between publishers, advertisers, and users on the Ethereum blockchain. The token can be used to obtain a variety of advertising and attention-based services on the BAT platform and the Brave browser.” The token quickly jumped over 10 percent in price, offering a valuable lesson in the power of Coinbase to move the market.

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Avi Mizrahi

Avi Mizrahi is an economist and entrepreneur who has been covering Bitcoin as a journalist since 2013. He has spoken about the promise of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology at numerous financial conferences around the world, from London to Hong-Kong.