This Behind-the-Scenes Crypto Firm Saw 2,000% Account Growth in 2021
Prime Trust, one of the crypto industry’s behind-the-scenes operators, saw its fintech rails surge in popularity this year as new business clients piled in, Chief Financial Officer Rodrigo Vicuna told CoinDesk.The Las Vegas-based infrastructure company is now “in the millions of users,” Vicuna said, after accounts ballooned 2,000% year over year. Its business-facing network of application programming interfaces (APIs) for know-your-customer (KYC) checks, trading, debit card issuance, retail settlement and crypto on- and off-ramps gets pinged 300 million times a month, he said.With clients including FTX, Binance.US, Securitize, Dapper and Kraken, Prime Trust gets exposure to some of crypto’s hottest…