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Why Ethereum is still the home of DeFi

With the integration of the Ethereum blockchain into the Ultimate wallet, we embraced the multichain future. The Solana blockchain was a great place to start building a fast and low-fee DeFi wallet for retail, but there’s no denying Ethereum’s ongoing dominance in the DeFi ecosystem. Ethereum was the first blockchain to support smart contracts - programmable code run directly on the blockchain - which serve as the basis for all DeFi programs and applications. This first mover advantage gave Ethereum time to evolve and grow, and it remains the largest DeFi ecosystem today.

Who's building ULTIMATE: Maximillian von Wallenberg, Co-founder and CEO

Max started his career on the trading floor of Lehman Brothers in London, he has an MBA from Harvard Business School and co-founded and scaled several FinTechs. Prior to founding Ultimate, he was the CEO of Germany’s largest crypto exchange (Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange).

Unstoppable Finance announces to build first DeFi Bank

Unstoppable Finance, the company behind the popular self-custodial crypto wallet "Ultimate" announced today that it will build Europe’s first fully regulated DeFi-native bank and a fiat-backed Euro stablecoin.

Who's building ULTIMATE: Peter Grosskopf - Co-founder and CTO

Peter started his career in 2008, by starting a software engineering company that grew to 27 people. A builder at heart, Peter was Chief Development Officer at the company builder HitFox Group and Finleap, co-founder and CTO of SolarisBank, and CTO / Managing Director of the Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange.

Wallet wars: who will win, and should they?

Who is currently positioned to dethrone MetaMask / Phantom, how can wallets monetize, and is that going to contribute to centralization of the underlying protocols?

Ultimate on Ethereum!

Ethereum, here we come! Today we are launching on Ethereum and couldn't be more excited.

Solana on its own two legs

Has FTX’s downfall pushed Solana in the right direction — toward independence?

Stripe integration is live!

Moving funds from your bank to the blockchain just got easier, with Stripe’s new fiat-to-crypto onramp! Starting today, Ultimate’s U.S. users can purchase crypto in a seamless checkout flow, using Stripe’s instant ACH and 1-click purchases for returning users.

The Ultimate wallet is live on the App Store!

Today we are proud to launch the Ultimate wallet on the Apple App Store! It’s a multi-chain, non-custodial wallet that brings DeFi investing and trading to the masses on mobile. Say goodbye to complexity, say hi to DeFi!

The Future of Finance is Decentralized

With the properties of being open, permissionless, decentralized, and non-manipulatable, Blockchain technology is powering the best and most transparent financial services ecosystem that ever existed in human history — it’s called Decentralized Finance, or DeFi. We are big believers.

Who’s building ULTIMATE? Bruno Wozniak - Software engineer

We’d like to highlight our star-studded team, and reveal the experiences that have shaped their design decisions at Ultimate.

Who’s building ULTIMATE? Design Lead - Louis Currie

We’d like to highlight our star-studded team, and reveal the experiences that have shaped their design decisions at Ultimate.

Who’s building ULTIMATE? Dev Pramoth - Product Manager

We’d like to highlight our star-studded team, and reveal the experiences that have shaped design decisions at Ultimate.

Proof of Stake blockchains are part of a green future

For all the fear, uncertainty, and doubt around blockchain energy use, Proof of Stake has emerged as a technology that increases transaction throughput and reduces energy consumption. By using Proof of Stake chains to transact, users are taking advantage of an energy efficient alternative to traditional payment networks.

We raised a EUR 12.5m Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

Today we are thrilled to announce our EUR 12.5m Series A funding round (USD 12.8m) led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to launch and scale our DeFi wallet & investing platform Ultimate.

Why Solana is more decentralized than you think

With over 1,800 active validators globally distributed to a similar extent as other chains, and a Nakamoto coefficient of 27, the Solana network is one of the more decentralized blockchain networks running today.

Voyager showed the danger of indirect crypto exposure

It’s time to take matters (and your money) into your own hands. Own crypto, not crypto companies. Own crypto, not crypto trusts or ETFs. Own your keys, own your coins.

Announcing our DeFi Super App Ultimate

Unstoppable Finance unveils our non-custodial DeFi app Ultimate, a mobile app offering seamless access to a curated selection of DeFi opportunities.

Why we are launching our multi-chain DeFi wallet on Solana first

We want to build a wallet user experience that is as snappy, seamless, and intuitive as the UX of major global banking or brokerage fintech apps. Visa-like scalability of the underlying blockchain layer was a prerequisite for that, which is why Solana feels like the best place for us to start and onboard new users into DeFi.

Introducing Unstoppable Finance

We are deep believers that decentralized architecture powers the next iteration of the internet and that cracking the mass market for this technology is one of the biggest venture opportunities of the next decade. That’s why we are unstoppable.