The Main Problem of Crypto Business
Widespread adoption of cryptocurrency would enable businesses to make significant savings on acquisition fees, reach a global customer base and process payments instantly. However, slow fiat transfers within the banking system remain a problem.
Moving a business into the crypto industry can fragment a company’s working capital. The inability to abandon fiat currency and the need to use intermediaries — crypto gateways — means funds are distributed across three channels:
• bank account
• crypto gateway wallet
• hot and cold wallets.
Consequently, companies are forced to maintain excess reserves in each account and wallet, resulting in capital being tied up.
According to Cryptomus, this problem can be partially solved by issuing crypto cards that enable the direct spending of cryptocurrency with instant conversion to fiat.
Fireblocks offers clients automatic rebalancing: as soon as the cryptocurrency accumulated in the crypto gateway wallet exceeds a set threshold, it is automatically transferred to a cold wallet.
BitPay offers a solution that combines bank account and crypto wallet management in a single dashboard. This allows for the instant conversion of cryptocurrency to fiat currency to replenish a bank account on a 'just-in-time' basis.