{"id":14562,"date":"2018-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/2018\/03\/16\/abra-adds-dash-and-17-others-for-mobile-trading-wallet\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:37:40","slug":"abra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.dash.org\/news\/abra-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abra adds Dash and 17 others for Mobile trading \/ wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"
Crypto wallet startup Abra is expanding the number of cryptocurrencies it supports to 20 from just two \u2013 bitcoin and ethereum \u2013 currently.<\/p>\n
Announced today, bitcoin cash, dash, dogecoin, ethereum classic, golem, litecoin, omisego, qtum, XRP, vertcoin and zcash will be immediately available on the app. Over the next few days, it will also roll out bitcoin gold, stellar lumens, digitbyte, augur, status, stratis and 0x.<\/p>\n
Abra founder and CEO Bill Barhydt explained in a press release:<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to empower customers around the world, using their local currencies to freely invest in a wide variety of cryptocurrencies at any time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A spokesperson for the company said each of the 20 new cryptocurrencies are held directly on the user\u2019s phone, allowing them access to their coins at any time.<\/p>\n