Amazon seeks a blockchain expert

The job offer refers to cryptocurrencies and digital currency: the expert will have to evaluate the impacts and business opportunities for the ecommerce giant

(Photo by Paul Hennessy / NurPhoto via Getty Images) new CEO Andy Jassy at the helm of Amazon starting to be heard? Some online clues have fueled hypotheses about the future path that the ecommerce giant could take in the payments sector. The company is in fact looking for an expert "to develop the strategy and product roadmap for digital currency and blockchain": this is the profile of the job offer published by Amazon on its portal. The resource will be inducted into the payments and customer experience team at the Seattle headquarters.

Candidate's expertise on blockchain, distributed ledger, cryptocurrency and central bank digital currency issues will serve to "process hypothesis of functions that should be developed, guide a general vision and a product strategy, obtain the command on purchases and investments for new performances ”. The company does not yet accept cryptocurrencies as a form of payment, but it should be noted that the Federal Reserve in the United States is working on a research on the digital dollar and that a few days ago US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged to act quickly for a regulatory framework on stablecoins, or cryptocurrencies that have a stable price because they are linked to a current medium of exchange.

"We are inspired by the ongoing innovation in the cryptocurrency environment and are exploring what it might look like inside Amazon," a company spokesperson explained to the US press: on new technologies that enable quick and inexpensive payments, we hope to bring that future to Amazon's customers as soon as possible ”. Amazon Web Services, the unit of cloud services led by Jassy until July 5, already offers a service called 'managed blockchain', which allows the joining of public networks or the configuration and management of scalable private networks using them for example for the issuance of certificates.

Amazon is certainly not the first technological multinational to approach the subject. The Facebook stablecoin Diem project is now multi-year, while Apple in turn published (first in May and then at the end of June) a job offer dedicated to a business development expert to start collaborations in the field of 'alternative payments. '. These latest rumors seem to have brought benefits for bitcoin, which jumped in the night between Sunday and Monday from 34 thousand to just over 38 thousand dollars, confirming the trend reversal already mentioned a few days earlier.


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