We at Mycelium are officially announcing our new wallet, along with all the features that, until now, we have been keeping secret. The new wallet will also be simply called Mycelium, since it will no longer be just a typical wallet. Here are some of the features to look forward to:
- A plug in API that will allow anyone to integrate their own services and features directly into the wallet. Mycelium Wallet already supports multiple features - like Locks, Cashila, Trezor, Ledger, and soon Glidera - and we constantly get requests from companies asking us to add their services to our app. But every time that procedure involves our developers sitting down and coding the features themselves, for weeks at a time. This severely limits the number of third party support we can implement, and distracts us from adding new innovations happening with Bitcoin itself. As you know, Bitcoin has new things invented and added constantly, so just keeping up with that is a full time job. With the new API, businesses and developers will be able to add their own plug-ins quickly and easily, without bothering to beg us every time. This also allows businesses to focus on their core business strengths. For example, an exchange's main job is to create and manage trades. Making a custom wallet specifically for their exchange is a distraction and an unnecessary cost. With our wallet, they can let us focus on the front-end, UI, and trade functions, while they focus on just making sure all their users' money is handled securely and trades are settled correctly. Eventually we plan to have Mycelium be your one-stop app for all your crypto and finance needs, storing, trading, and managing all your cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and even fiat accounts.
- Support for multiple currencies and digital assets. The new Mycelium app will support many more digital assets besides just Bitcoin. With the help of the plugin API architecture, anyone would be able to add support for any type of currency or asset, be it Litecoin, Doge, ColoredCoin, Ether, Factom, or personally issued assets like stocks, tickets, or hotel keys. We are uniquely positioned to have an advantage in this, because Mycelium already runs a set of highly optimized backend servers that handle and transfer digital assets. We plan to extend this backend architecture to support many more such assets.
- Mycelium is becoming a full financial management suite. We will no longer be developing just another wallet, but something that will be similar to applications like Quickbooks and Mint. The new app, besides helping you manage various assets, will let you perform a large number of financial management functions, from creating, tracking, and paying invoices, to tracking budgets, revenues and expenses, profits and losses, inventory, and customer and contact lists. There will also be social media integration, and encrypted communication built right into the app. The goal is to allow anyone, from someone managing their personal finances to someone running their large business, manage all their finances right from our app, whether it is sending money to family and friends, or tracking business expenses and making sure their customers and vendors are taken care of.
- Support for multiple platforms. Mycelium is switching to the ReactNative platform, and going fully open source. The new platform will allow us to run mostly the same code on Android and iOS (with Windows Phone and eventually PC in the near future, too). All users will have the same user experience, and have access to largely the same functions (except for some hardware limitations).
We have been working on this new wallet in secret for over six months, and have decided to allow our most loyal users and supporters to share in our future growth. We are positioning ourselves to be the one wallet for all your needs, with the largest number of customer use due to widest third party support, and largest third party development due to the largest number of users. Our future revenue will come from licensing and revenue sharing from third party plugins, as well as from services we at Mycelium will develop ourselves (Gear, Swish, Card, etc.). Effectively, we plan to be like a Google Play or Apple Appstore of all things related to crypto finance. To let our users participate in the growth and help us along with development, we will be having a crowdsale, selling a 5% non-dilutable stake in Mycelium (SAR) directly on the blockchain. To find out more, please check out
https://wallet.mycelium.com