We all want to go to the moon, but the question is, can eCash take us there?

Like many of you, I’ve been waiting for this to happen for years, but the funny thing is, I never gave too much thought as to why or how it would happen. I probably figured if ABC kept building, and the community kept growing, everything would work out somehow.

But only now, four years after the eCash project first launched, is the how starting to finally come into focus for me. For the first time, I feel I can see how mass adoption might finally arrive…

Sorry if this is disappointing to hear, but my guess is it’s not going to be just one thing, but a bunch of things coming together all at once.

For a long time, the crypto market has managed to rely mostly on its potential. Price has acted as a leading indicator with the assumption that the use cases and adoption would eventually come to justify the absurd valuations.

For eCash, I feel like the opposite may be true. What if it’s the use cases and adoption that serve as a leading indicator with price lagging behind? Thanks to the leadership and hard work of Bitcoin ABC, eCash’s protocol, indexer, wallets, developer tools, and everything else they’ve been busy building is ready to serve as a firm foundation for application builders and entrepreneurs to build on top of.

Slowly, but surely, eCash is finding its builders. The recent announcement about the Marianas USD stable coin is but one example, and I am looking forward to hearing more about it in their official announcement tomorrow.

StakedXEC.com and Firma.cash are two more examples. With over 14B XECx tokens already in the hands of users, that’s real adoption created by a real use case that allows XECx token holders to earn eCash staking rewards without having to run their own full node.

Firma, the yield bearing USD stablecoin quietly launched the first eCash bridge allowing users to swap USDT on the Solana network for Firma without any KYC. Soon we will be able to redeem Firma for USDT as well.

There’s also agora.cash, localecash.com, ecash.poker, paybutton.org, proofofwriting.com, and others.

I can’t see the future. There are no guarantees. But what I am saying is that I am starting to see how mass adoption can take place, and I don’t think it will be from a single source.

When talking about Rubik’s cubes and how much faster people are solving them today, Amaury said, “To go from 15 seconds to 5 seconds, it’s not like one trick somewhere, they are better at everything.”

I feel this is how eCash will succeed. It’s not going to be because of one killer app, but from a bunch of killer apps. Just as the eCash protocol is being built one step at a time, I believe adoption will happen the same way.

Whether it’s the soon to launch MUSD, or XECx, or Firma, or the WordPress plugin for PayButton getting into the WordPress store, I think each will contribute to eCash gaining more mindshare in the world of crypto and beyond.

Let’s take the WordPress plugin for PayButton as an example. When WordPress eventually approves the PayButton plugin for its store, maybe only a very small number of people start using it at first, but in doing so, they will introduce both PayButton and eCash to their audience, who will then introduce it to the people they know, and little by little, a very small number of users can grow to a very large number of users.

The eCash project is all about iterating and improving incrementally, so I see no reason why it would be any different for eCash mass adoption. The market seems to have ignored eCash’s potential thus far, but as long as we keep building useful tools that solve people’s problems, I can’t help but remain bullish on XEC.

Feel free to leave comment if you disagree or want to add to the conversation.

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