Developed by Breez in partnership with Bitcoin Spark, the Glow app lets customers ship stablecoins from their Bitcoin stability, whereas empowering builders to construct higher consumer experiences with out having to fret concerning the tough components of constructing on high of Bitcoin. Breez’s SDK takes care of asset alternate within the background whereas supporting lightning funds via its Spark integration.
“Glow is a Bitcoin app for everybody,” stated the corporate in a press launch shared with Bitcoin Journal. Customers can entry the app on each Apple and Android app shops. Glow re-invents the Bitcoin pockets expertise, deviating from the seed phrase backup circulation that many wallets try and introduce customers to. As a substitute, Glow leverages the Passkey customary engineered and now inspired by the Silicon Valley giants, which makes passwords and, on this case, cross phrases a factor of the previous. Regardless of the change, Glow guarantees self-custody and cryptographic management over funds to its customers, in an auditable software program package deal.
As an MIT-licensed, free and open supply progressive internet app (PWA), Glow is constructed in order that builders can look beneath the hood, take it aside, and implement options as they see match, leveraging the Breez API and SDK. In addition to the Passkey login, Glow has full help for native Lightning funds, sending and receiving with customizable Lightning addresses that seem like emails, reminiscent of [email protected]. First deployed to a Bitcoiner consumer base, Glow can at the moment ship USDT and USDC throughout most networks and blockchains via their partnership with Flashnet, drawing worth from the consumer’s Bitcoin stability.
Glow comes built-in with a few onramps from the beginning as properly. Customers can onboard to bitcoin immediately through Money App and MoonPay which the SDK connects to through their API. Sats arrive in seconds. The app additionally has contacts integration, letting customers save their pals’ lightning addresses as a contact, hiding away ugly public keys and lightning invoices and delivering a extra acquainted and mainstream funds app expertise.
Customers also can keep away from bitcoin’s volatility by swapping their BTC holdings to USD worth at will and, based on the press launch, they earn sats as they do. Glow’s stablecoin is USDB; the B stands for Bitcoin, a stablecoin issued by Brale Inc which is licensed as an MSB throughout over 45 states, and claims to be compliant with GENIUS Act requirements: “Regulated & totally backed Issued by Brale, a U.S. regulated entity, and 100% backed by T-bills, money, and money equivalents”. There seems to be no strategy to confirm Brale’s compliance with the GENIUS Act proper now because the laws are nonetheless being applied and don’t take impact till 2027.
What’s outstanding about USDB is that it’s a Bitcoin native stablecoin, deployed via the Spark protocol, which is appropriate with the Lightning Community, primarily unlocking the stablecoin throughout Bitcoin rails. USDB holders earn as much as 6% APY delivered from Flashnet DEFI alternate’s earnings, based on a Spark announcement earlier this yr.
Breez believes this mixture of partnerships and applied sciences implies that “Bitcoin has lastly crossed a threshold.” The UX unlocked by Glow is now totally out there to builders as a software program improvement equipment, one thing unimaginable by conventional finance.
