Consumer finance app Eco has joined forces with Zero Hash — a crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider — to offer stablecoin-powered financial services to customers. According to a Monday (Oct. 3) news release, Zero Hash “abstracts away the technological and regulatory complexities of fiat-to-crypto conversions and provides...
Eco, a FinTech savings and spending app, plans to convert its users account balances to a U.S. digital currency that then will be Zero Hash, CoinDesk reported. U.S. digital currency, or USDC, refers to cryptocurrencies pegged to the valued of the U.S. dollars. It is...
Super apps may consolidate an array of finance apps into a seamless, simplified and single user experience, but while all looks well on their dazzling new consumer-centric interfaces, the financial rails and pipes undergirding the system aren’t next-gen — they’re last gen. To a growing...
The conventional wisdom about consumers is the average person doesn’t really care about how payments happen. Security? Check. Rewards? Check. Acceptance? Check. Type of payment rails on which the transaction travels? Not so much. But consumers should care, according to instant payment service platform Eco’s...
November 03, 2021
Super apps may consolidate an array of finance apps into a seamless, simplified and single user experience, but while all looks well on their dazzling new consumer-centric interfaces, the financial rails and pipes undergirding the system aren’t next-gen — they’re last gen. To a growing number of players, primarily FinTechs, it’s time for a top-down […]
March 16, 2021
The conventional wisdom about consumers is the average person doesn’t really care about how payments happen. Security? Check. Rewards? Check. Acceptance? Check. Type of payment rails on which the transaction...
October 03, 2022
Consumer finance app Eco has joined forces with Zero Hash — a crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider — to offer stablecoin-powered financial services to customers. According to a Monday (Oct. 3) news release, Zero Hash “abstracts away the technological and regulatory complexities of fiat-to-crypto conversions and provides the complete building blocks for supporting USDC deposits and withdrawals, […]
October 02, 2022
Eco, a FinTech savings and spending app, plans to convert its users account balances to a U.S. digital currency that then will be Zero Hash, CoinDesk reported. U.S. digital currency,...
March 05, 2021
Digital wallet Eco has landed more than $26 million in an a16z Crypto-led investment round that saw the involvement of Slow Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Activant Capital, Founders Fund and over...
December 29, 2019
Ghana is looking to drop its currency, the cedi, to join the new West African currency called “eco,” anticipated to replace the CFA franc as early as 2020, Reuters reported....
