WhatsApp may be the next mainstream service to allow digital asset payments, expecting the launch of a third-party wallet in closed beta, reported the Express. The announcement arrived a few weeks after Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) allegedly planned its own dollar-pegged digital asset. The wallet is not an internal product of WhatsApp but is built by a third party aiming to spread crypto-related services to the WhatsApp user base.
The new wallet, Wuabit, will focus on ease of use, sending digital assets to named accounts, instead of relying on the complex public addresses used until now. The wallet core servic...