Payment giant Stripe is going to offer a new product that makes it easier to hold cryptocurrencies without signing up to a cryptocurrency exchange. The company’s new fiat-to-crypto widget can be embedded in any crypto product so that users can enter their card information and acquire crypto that can be used in another web3 product.
There are a few use cases where widgets like this one make sense. The most common one is probably non-custodial wallets. Once you have crypto assets in your wallet, you can interact with various web3 products using WalletConnect. You can buy NFTs, use DeFi products, etc.
But how do you upload crypto assets to these software wallets? The most logical use case is that you first sign up to a centralized cry …
