Daniele Servadei is only 20-years-old, but he’s also the mastermind behind Sellix, a two-year-old e-commerce platform that helps businesses around the globe streamline the process of accepting cryptocurrency payments.
Launched by Servadei from his home in Reggio Emilia, Italy in November 2021, Sellix supports payments made using traditional fiat and more than 25 cryptocurrencies. It has processed more than $100 million in payments worldwide to date, by Servadei’s estimates, for more than 3,000 clients in about three dozen countries.
Cointelegraph spoke with Servadei — who is also currently attending the University of Parma for a degree in computer science — to ask about his work and his views on the future of the industry. “Building a company is 1,000 times more difficult than working with cryptocurrency,” Servadei noted. “Trying to balance my life, my company, going to school at the time — it has not been easy.”
1) Tell us about your company.
Basically, we are trying to do what Stripe is doing for fiat — we’re trying to do it for cryptocurrencies. It’s a centralized payment platform. Anybody can sign up and get started accepting cryptocurrency payments immediately, and we handle it for them.
2) From decentralized applications (dApps) to nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized finance (DeFi), we have seen many “killer apps” for crypto, but none have really taken off yet. What will stick?
The main issue the crypto industry has is that there are way too many solutions to problems that do not exist. That’s the first thing. The other thing is that those solutions are not taking a consumer-first approach. They’re building projects that might be amazing, but they don’t care about their consumers.
NFTs are going to stay here — And I can see them having many good uses in the future. The ability to have a public blockchain and to have people — gamer, traders — trade game items easely is one of the main use cases for NFTs that I…
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