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Visa is partnering with First Boulevard, a digital bank focused on “building generational wealth” for the Black community, on a test of the payments giant’s new suite of crypto APIs.
First Boulevard will be the first to test Visa’s new suite of crypto APIs, which will enable customers to purchase, custody, and trade digital assets held by federally chartered bank Anchorage.
The partnership signals a new phase of Visa’s digital currency strategy through which it wants to connect more financial institutions with its crypto and blockchain services, according to the company.
“With this pilot program, we want to extend the value of Visa to our neobank and financial institution clients by providing an easy bridge to crypto assets and blockchain networks,” said Visa chief product officer Jack Forestell.
“We are thrilled to partner with the leader in digital payments, Visa, and leverage their crypto APIs to provide another channel for the Black community to access crypto as a new asset class that can help build Black wealth,” Donald Hawkins, First Boulevard’s CEO, said in a statement.
© 2021 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice.
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Crypto exchanges Coinbase and Binance have become two of the top 1,000 most visited websites in the world, according to estimations by trackers SimilarWeb and Alexa.
Coinbase is currently ranked 874 and Binance 839 worldwide on SimilarWeb. Meanwhile, on Amazon-owned Alexa, Coinbase is ranked 830 globally and Binance 415.
Country-wise, Coinbase is ranked 386 in the U.S., according to SimilarWeb, and 187, according to Alexa.
Binance, on the other hand, is most popular in Russia, according to SimilarWeb, and is ranked 563 in the country. Meanwhile, according to Alexa, Binance is ranked 676 in the U.S.
The surge in popularity of the two websites suggests that people are considering learning about and investing in cryptocurrencies.
Coinbase’s app ranking, however, has fallen to 36 on the U.S. Apple Store as of this writing as compared to 4 last week, according to data compiled by The Block.
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