Dash has launched a public alpha for DashPay, a social cryptocurrency wallet, to deliver a seamless user experience with human-readable usernames, contact lists, and profile pictures. This experience addresses the most significant barriers to the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies, which several consumer surveys shows are mainly ease-of-use issues. The public alpha allows users to see what a truly friction-free and social cryptocurrency transaction experience can be like, ahead of the full public launch in 2021.
According to a 2016 survey conducted by market research firm Clutch and Brave UX of web users who spend over four hours per day online, over 90% of respondents viewed ease of use as an important determining factor when deciding to continue to use a website or service. An online poll conducted by Dash revealed that 66.9% of respondents view general usability as the biggest barrier to adoption.
Another survey conducted by the Foundation for Interwallet Operability in 2018 found that many cryptocurrency users did not have full confidence in the success of their transactions. Only 25% of respondents had full confidence in transactions immediately after sending, while 17% were somewhat stressed to very nervous after sending. The same study found that only 30% of users sent cryptocurrency to others, including for purchases, at all during the course of a month, with 27% not sending cryptocurrency at all that entire year.
Dash seeks to address these barriers to adoption and confidence issues by providing a seamless social experience, including usernames, contact lists, profile pictures, and more, at the protocol level, delivering this experience to users across the cryptocurrency’s entire ecosystem. Mark Mason, Public Relations Manager for Dash, said:
“Essentially, if you want cryptocurrency adoption to go mainstream. We need to say bye to long scary cryptographic addresses, and say hello to usernames, profile pics and contact lists. Providing a pleasant user experience is the key requirement to achieve mass adoption. Dash is ready to go mainstream by making blockchain payments easy with decentralized usernames. Blockchain is evolving. Welcome to the world of social payments. Social payments are the future!”
Dash is calling for new users to test out the DashPay wallet, now in open alpha. DashPay is a new wallet that enables social payments between users, including network-wide searchable usernames, contact lists, profile pictures and bios, and easy payments history, all in a fully-decentralized way without relying on centralized third parties for any part of the experience of harming user privacy. DashPay will see a full public release on Dash’s mainnet in early 2021.
To join the DashPay public alpha, go to Dash.org/dashpay
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