Digital Cash

Crunchfish enable digital applications to become robust, trusted and secure

2023-02-14|

Digital payments are not as robust as required given their critical role as public or commercial goods in a modern society. The same holds true for digital applications in general. As they are typically implemented using client server network model, the digital service is only available if the user gets online network access over the internet. In the same way as Crunchfish Digital Cash provides robustness for digital payments services, Crunchfish enable now this approach for digital applications in other verticals. Adding an application agnostic Trusted Application Protocol layer to digital applications has a profound impact on the client server communication as it provides trusted -applications, -identities and -execution environments communicating with secure end-to-end messages over all types of networks, e.g. TCP/IP, VPN, telecom or using a LAN or a proximity bearer.

This innovation is arguably the most important improvement in digital communication since the internet was introduced in the 90s and Crunchfish most important innovation to date. Whereas the internet provides survivability in the face of failures between networks, TAP provides robustness between the digital application of the client and the server as well as fully offline between peers”, says Joachim Samuelsson Crunchfish CEO.   

Crunchfish have a patent pending for this protocol extension that applies to any form of digital application. The business model is subscription-based Trust-as-a-service model. In addition to supporting client server network architectures, the patent pending TAP also supports peer-to-peer communication.

TAP is arguably the most important improvement in digital communications since the internet was introduced in the 90s. Whereas the internet TCP/IP protocol made digital communications more robust, it is of little use if the application cannot get online access. TAP provides robustness as well as trust to digital applications by providing alternative routes to the remote server. For what is the use of a robust internet if a user that cannot get online access to the digital service?

In addition to making digital payments applications robust, having a trusted client is very useful for any digital application that require login, executing a single command or enabling automatic login without a passphrase to a remote server. This could for instance be used by electronic identification applications. Any application becomes more robust by the Trusted Application as it is possible to use alternative routes than the internet to connect to the remote server with end-to-end integrity. Even in circumstances where the internet is available, TAP adds additional integrity for the application data and ties the user directly to the secure client, which is beneficial for invoicing in subscription-based applications. TAP may also be used for having a trusted identity on social media platform to improve accountability for what is posted online.

For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

This information is Crunchfish AB obliged to publish in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was provided by the contact person above for publication 14 February 2023 at 00:01 CET.

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish are a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR and automotive industry. Crunchfish are listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.

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Invitation to a webinar and Crunchfish iQ on the 2022 year-end report

On Thursday, February 16 at 08.30 CET / 13.00 IST, Crunchfish publish its year-end report for 2022. At 09.00 CET / 13.30 IST, a webinar about the report will be hosted on Zoom where Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson will be interviewed. Crunchfish are also launching a complimentary report format – Crunchfish iQ – an interactive view of the year-end report.

 

Year-end report webinar
In the 2022 year-end report webinar Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson will be interviewed by Joen Sundmark, Equity Analyst at Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance. Please register using this link.

The audience may ask questions using the chat forum. A recording of the webinar will be made available afterward on Crunchfish’s as well as Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance’s websites.

 

Crunchfish iQ Interactive Quarterly reports

Crunchfish keep creating new ways to get closer to its stakeholders. To make Crunchfish’s quarterly and annual reports more interactive, the company is launching Crunchfish iQ, an open Q&A channel about each Crunchfish-, Digital Cash-, and Gesture Interaction story in the reports. Crunchfish iQ will be published as a compliment to the quarterly and annual reports and will be stored in the article section of Crunchfish LinkedIn channel.

 

For more information, please contact:

Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB

+46 708 46 47 88

joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com 

 

 

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

 

 

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com

Crunchfish are a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR, automotive and digital interfaces. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with representation in India.

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Crunchfish Digital Cash pilot in India is scaling up

2023-02-08|

Crunchfish in partnership with HDFC Bank and another Indian bank are piloting offline payments in a project monitored by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in their Regulatory Sandbox program. HDFC Bank, one of the leading banks in the world, have launched a website that describes “OfflinePay – Payments that work, without any network”. The project has been scaled up significantly in terms of numbers of payers and merchants.

Online Real-time Payment Services, such as UPI in India and Swish in Sweden, are by design vulnerable to temporary outages; whether it is payer that cannot get online connectivity, the remitting or beneficiary bank is congested, or any payments switch is down. Offline payment schemes, on the other hand, provide survivability in the face of any temporary failures. Whereas an offline payment scheme may facilitate an instant online transaction, the reverse is not true. Delivering a robust, inclusive and private digital payments service, requiring offline payments as the fundamental building block, must be a firm requirement by the financial regulator in any country in order to provide a stable payments eco-system.

Crunchfish have published several press releases related to this project. Crunchfish were  included in the Reserve Bank of India’s Regulatory Sandbox* in September 2022, the integration of Crunchfish Digital Cash offline was ready in October 2022, and when the pilot started in December 2023. HDFC Bank have now published a description of their implementation of Crunchfish Digital Cash offline as “OfflinePay – Payments that work, without any network”.

*The Regulatory Sandbox was established in 2020 by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to foster responsible innovation in financial services, promote efficiency and bring benefit to end users. The Regulatory Sandbox is a formal regulatory program for market participants to test new products and services with customers in a live environment, subject to certain safeguards and oversight. It allows the regulator, innovators, financial service providers and end users to conduct field tests to collect evidence on the benefits of new financial innovations, while carefully monitoring and containing their risks. To be approved access to the Regulatory Sandbox, the proposed financial service shall include new or emerging technology, or use of existing technology in an innovative way and should address a problem and bring benefits to consumers.

For more information, please contact:
Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB
+46 708 46 47 88
joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com

This information was provided by the contact person above for publication on 08 February 2023 at 14:30 CET.

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com
Crunchfish is a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR and automotive industry. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.

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Crunchfish CEO argues for a necessary paradigm shift in payments at Aktiedagen in Gothenburg

Crunchfish believe a digital good as payments must deliver a trusted and inclusive service that survives in the face of any temporary failures. A new Payments Internet Protocol (PIP) is destined to become the foundation of front-end public and commercial digital payments applications. PIP augments the internet TCP/IP protocols significantly and is the next breakthrough innovation in digital payments. Crunchfish CEO presented today on this theme at Aktiedagen in Gothenburg. 

 

Whereas an offline payments protocol may work online, the reverse is not true. Online payments systems are by design only capable of handling online payments. Hence, the underlying protocol for digital payments must be an offline scheme as it supports both offline and online payments. Crunchfish Digital Cash is a family of native layer-1 or non-native layer-2, software- and hardware-based frontend trusted applications for -offline, -online, -telecom, -non-mobiles, -consecutive, and -quantum-safe digital payments.

 

Here is the link to today’s presentation in English. Two month ago Crunchfish CEO gave a broader company presentation in English and Swedish on the theme Big deals are coming.   

 

For more information, please contact:

Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB

+46 708 46 47 88

joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com 

 

 

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

 

 

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com

Crunchfish are a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR, automotive and digital interfaces. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.

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Crunchfish present at Aktiedagen Göteborg

The paradigm shift in payments – the theme of Crunchfish’s presention at Aktiedagen Göteborg on Monday, February 6, at 12:15 CET. Joachim Samuelsson, Group CEO at Crunchfish, presents Digital Cash 2.0. Whereas an offline payments protocol may work online, the reverse is not true. Online payments systems are by design only capable of handling online payments. Hence, the underlying protocol for digital payments must be an offline scheme as it supports both offline and online payments.

 

 

On February 1st, Crunchfish launched Digital Cash 2.0 to drive a paradigm shift in payments. Watch the interview with Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson commenting on the announcement via this link. Crunchfish Digital Cash is inspired by the robust, inclusive, and private design philosophies that was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the 1970s and since has become the basis of the internet as we know it today. It is an incredible robust protocol based on packet switching. Crunchfish Digital Cash is for digital payments what the internet is for digital communications, e.g. survivability in the face of any temporary failures. Watch also Crunchfish CEO elaborate on these ideas on January 27th during an expert panel discussion on “Offline payments for CBDCs and financial inclusion” at the ITU’s DC conference via this link.

 

Crunchfish presentation will be webcast live and on-demand via Aktiespararna’s youtube channel and aktiespararna.se. The live broadcast will be available at http://www.aktiespararna.se/tv/live. Use the opportunity to ask your questions to the presenter, by sending an SMS to 079-347 98 45 or email event@aktiespararna.se. Your questions will be conveyed by Aktiespararna’s moderator during the Q&A session the follows your presentation. You can submit your questions now or during the presentation. Follow the link for event program.

 

For more information, please contact:

Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB

+46 708 46 47 88

joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com 

 

 

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

 

 

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com

Crunchfish are a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR, automotive and digital interfaces. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with a subsidiary in India.

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Crunchfish CEO comments on today’s launch of Digital Cash 2.0 – a paradigm shift in payments

Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson comments on the launch of Digital Cash 2.0 in an interview with analyst firm Emergers. Whereas an offline payments protocol may work online, the reverse is not true. Online payments systems are by design only capable of handling online payments. Hence, the underlying protocol for digital payments must be an offline scheme as it supports both offline and online payments.

 

 

Crunchfish have today launched Digital Cash 2.0 to drive a paradigm shift in payments. Watch the interview with Crunchfish CEO Joachim Samuelsson commenting on the announcement via this link.

 

The internet protocols fundamentally changed digital communications by their resilient design. Digital payments must also be upgraded to deliver a robust, inclusive and private service that should be required by any public good. Neither token-based nor account-based payment applications of today can deliver this unless they are supported by an underlying protocol designed to offer interoperability, scalability, and security. Crunchfish Digital Cash is that reliable end-to-end protocol and destined to become the standard protocol for digital payments as the internet protocols are for digital communications.

 

“Whereas an offline payments protocol may work online, the reverse is not true. Online payments services are by design only capable to handle online payments. Hence, the underlying protocol for digital payments must be an offline scheme as it supports both offline and online payments”, says Joachim Samuelsson, Crunchfish CEO

 

For more information, please contact:

Joachim Samuelsson, CEO of Crunchfish AB

+46 708 46 47 88

joachim.samuelsson@crunchfish.com 

 

Västra Hamnen Corporate Finance AB is the Certified Adviser. Email: ca@vhcorp.se. Telephone +46 40 200 250.

 

 

About Crunchfish – crunchfish.com

Crunchfish are a deep tech company developing a Digital Cash platform for Banks, Payment Services and CBDC implementations and Gesture Interaction technology for AR/VR, automotive and digital interfaces. Crunchfish is listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2016, with headquarters in Malmö, Sweden and with representation in India.

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