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May 19, 2021 · In part 1 of my conversation with TRASTRA’s founder Roman Potemkin we covered the basics about Roman’s career, vision, and TRASTRA’s value…
May 12, 2021 · In Part 2, Roman Potemkin discusses the concept of money, its social implications and the role cryptocurrencies play in our lives
May 2, 2021 · May 2, 2021. I sat down with Hanna hours before she was supposed to go off on her well-deserved vacation. But Hanna Petrova, TRASTRA’s “Employee Zero” — the very first hire by the founder ...
May 2, 2021 · TRASTRA is an ideal tool for digital nomads, and the company’s founder and CEO, Roman Potemkin, is the ultimate digital nomad. Based in Prague, he manages his coming-of-age startup on the fly ...
- What’s Your background?
- How Did Your Interest in Crypto First develop?
- What’s Your Methodology of Looking For Value?
- At What Point Did You Realize That You Can Contribute to Society?
- Is That Trastra’S Value Proposition?
- How Do You Implement Your Vision in Practice?
- What Are Your Biggest Challenges So Far? The highlights?
I’ve been a serial entrepreneur in fintech since 2006 specializing in digital banking development. Founder of iDA mobile (digital banking solutions for iOS, Android, Windows Phone) , InstaBank (mobile-first digital bank), and UPUP – money for kids (kid’s finance education). Executive MBA, bachelor in management.
I realized crypto would be a big deal sometime in 2013 when we worked on putting InstaBank together. At the time, I was hanging out with many different techno-geek types, a whole bunch of people from that same space – coders, developers, entrepreneurs, some financiers. One time the topic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies came up. By the time the conv...
In the mid to late nineties in the Eastern-European countries, one of the most exciting and popular banking products was payroll cards that several banks distributed. It spread like wildfire through the sector because it was so helpful and therefore popular. At the time, Eastern Europe was largely cash economy, payday was when a huge queue would fo...
The first iteration was all about easy crypto cash-out, which was a great value proposition for the still-young crypto economy. With time, we’ve switched to mobile banking. It was about building a product for mass-market adoption of cryptocurrency for consumer needs. I believe that the majority of all asset classes will be tokenized soon. We alread...
If I were to give you our value proposition in one sentence, it would be: with a TRASTRA card issued by Visa, you can get paid in crypto and cash it out in EUR in seconds without the need for a bank account. It’s simple. People face problems in spending cryptocurrency in their day-to-day life because, let’s face it, the infrastructure right now is ...
Our nearest plans are to increase the number of cryptos we work with because we initially conceived our interface and the app’s entire functionality for a nearly unlimited number of cryptocurrencies. It’ll be a huge interactive roster where you just swipe left and right all the crypto you want to work with and sort out the ones you’re actively invo...
Well, here’s an example: according to BetaKit, Revolut – one of the world’s largest challenger banks – is suspending operations in Canada because the “oligarchic kahal” of six institutional banks just doesn’t like competition. Obtaining a digital banking license for an outsider is nearly impossible in Canada without the local banking barons’ approv...
May 30, 2023 · For the uninitiated, TRC20 is fuel for TRASTRA’s customers to get to a more efficient financial frontier. It is a faster, cheaper, and overall cooler cousin of Ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard but dwelling on the TRON blockchain. Basically, the TRC-20 token standard takes the power of smart contracts, cranks it up a notch, and provides ...
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Aug 3, 2021 · TRASTRA’s solution for crypto payouts and exchange can shine particularly brightly in countries with high inflation rates and large remittance markets. We are working on a toolbox for crossing the threshold of usability in places where inferior Internet, lack of smartphones, and poor education present a challenge for tech outsiders.
