Exscudo is a new crypto project that aims to bridge the gap between traditional-finance and crypto-finance. By incorporating a clever mix of decentralized and centralized technologies, Exscudo is able to provide a vision for a seamless transition between cryptocurrencies and fiat, and vice versa. This can become an important on-ramp for projects going forward, and also for established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Exscuso is currently undergoing its ICO until May 31st.
Value Proposition of Exscudo
It would be an understatement to say that crypto-finance is on a rapidly growing upward trajectory. The total market capitalization of Crypto is over $30 billion. That’s a significant level today, even when compared to traditional financial products. However, even more than the size, it is the growth of the market that is staggering. It’s up more than 100% in less than 6 months – a growth rate that any traditional financial player would kill to have.
However, crypto is still niche. Very niche. It is hard for people to wrap their heads around Bitcoin, let alone all the cryptocurrencies, crypto-assets, protocol-tokens, crypto-tokens, ICOs etc. Thus, there is a huge market opening for a crypto company that operates in the crypto-financial space but bridges the gap with traditional finance. After all, the traditional financial products hold trillions of dollars, and compared to all the wealth in the world, crypto is small potatoes.
The First Steps
The first step towards building this bridge is to provide for the ability to connect the traditional financial assets with crypto-assets. For this, there needs to be a robust exchange that is able to take traditional currencies and convert them into crypto-assets. You need a high-reliability, high-speed trading platform that can help fuel this transition.
Enter the Exscudo exchange. It is aimed to be built around the highest quality standards, that meets the robust demands of the financial industry, i.e. it can scale really well. This is important because the amateur hour in crypto is over. When the exodus happens, there needs to be on-ramps into crypto that can handle the types of volumes and transactions we can expect.
Exscudo is building the exchange as a semi-centralized, semi-decentralized and open source project, but with proprietary bits as well. This may be much better than existing on-ramps in the ecosystem.
Beyond Just an Exchange
Exscudo has plans to develop the crypto on-ramps much beyond a mere exchange. The exchange is just a necessary first step towards bridging the crypto and traditional finance worlds. The team has several products on the roadmap already, some of which are –
- An exchange
- Trading charge/Information for Traders
- Crypto debit card, so you can spend your crypto funds
- A wallet to send/buy/exchange currencies quickly
- A decentralized messenger application
- Merchant services to accept crypto payments
As you can see, each of the above items on the roadmap is a step towards legitimizing crypto-assets and crypto-financial services in the eyes of the traditional financial industry. Each component can help bring more and more people into the crypto-economy from the traditional economy, thus helping not just Exscudo but the entire crypto ecosystem in the process.