Ethereum users are increasingly demanding self-custody: Casa CTO
The demand for Ethereum self-custody solutions is growing, according to Jameson Lopp, co-founder and chief technology officer of Bitcoin wallet provider Casa. In a conversation with Cointelegraph at Bitcoin 2023, Lopp stated that Casa has found it necessary to provide Ethereum support due to the increased number of Ethereum users seeking the service.
Incidents like the collapse of FTX in 2022 have raised awareness of the need for a secure way to store Ethereum and Ethereum tokens such as stablecoins, Lopp said:
In order to respond to this problem, Casa announced in December that it would be adding Ethereum support. This decision was “controversial for some,” Lopp said, referring to criticism of it from Bitcoin enthusiasts on social media. However, the company went forward with the plan anyway because its clients demanded it.
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According to Lopp, users still perceive self-custody as having a daunting “learning curve.” Although setting up a wallet and sending crypto to it is easy, practicing the proper security habits can be complex, making clients feel that self-custody is difficult.
“It certainly can be intimidating if you start by looking at all of the literature around how to do security,” he said. But “we’re baking all of those best practices into the product itself so that you follow the directions of our software, and it puts you into the position where […] you can be human, you can make a mistake, and it won’t result in a catastrophic loss.”
Lopp described the Casa service itself as an “extreme-security cold-storage setup with distributed keys.” It originally targeted “mega-whales” willing to spend $10,000 a year on custody but has expanded its offerings to the point where it even
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