Mastercard crypto SVP unpacks industry’s mass adoption problem
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At Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) this week, Mastercard’s crypto SVP Christian Rau and WalletConnect CEO Jess Houlgrave agreed that crypto still has to improve its user experience before the next wave of adoption can occur.
“For me, the bar in terms of user experience is really a tokenized debit card on my iPhone,” Rau told Blockworks’ Bennett Holloway. “The industry needs to mature and go in this direction.”
Houlgrave added that “we need an awful lot of investment” into crypto UX to make such improvements happen.
Rau shares my stance on the future of true crypto “mass adoption,” which is that most everyday people…
