Bitcoin Wallet pushes Bakkt out of the crypto ranking
In a month dominated by The Merge, where the No. 2 blockchain, Ethereum, switched from its energy-hungry and slow consensus mechanism for adding new data and minting new ether tokens to the new, greener, more scalable Ethereum 2.0, the change changed. in wallet rankings were not as in-depth.
PYMNTS’ cryptocurrency wallet vendor ranking had only one major change in the top 10, with the Bakkt app wallet falling 15 points, moving it out to No. 11.
Top 5
Tied for first place were, unsurprisingly, Binance and Coinbase with perfect scores of 100. Crypto.com has been known to bounce from a top 100 spot down a point or two, like September’s still-excellent 98.
No. 3 became Binance-owned Trust Wallet, with a 95. The multi-chain wallet completed a major integration effort with the world’s largest exchange’s fiat-to-crypto provider, Binance Connect, this summer, enabling the purchase of more than 200 cryptocurrencies and non- fungible tokens (NFTs) from 66 blockchains. It was also one of the first to support Instagram’s NFT initiatives.
No. 4 with a score of 89, Blockchain.com Wallet added compatibility with Tron’s native TRX token in September. The Gemini exchange wallet, which supports Gemini Pay at 30,000 merchants, rounded out the top 5 with 86.
Top 10
With a score of 85, No. 6 was the Strike wallet, which allows users to spend bitcoins anywhere instantly.
SafePal’s crypto wallet came in seventh, scoring 80, followed by payment technology firm BitPay’s wallet, which supports the virtual version of the BitPay Visa card and had a score of 78.
In ninth place with 77, the Wirex card and multi-currency crypto wallet supports 37 cryptocurrencies and US dollars, as well as the Wirex Visa.
With a score of 75 and in 10th place, Bitcoin Wallet, the grandfather of the list was launched in 2009, the same year as the bitcoin blockchain.
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