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MetaMask removes Wyre from aggregators amid shutdown reports

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  • January 6, 2023
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Wyre was set to be obtained for $1.5 billion by San Francisco web based business startup Bolt last year, yet the arrangement was ultimately rejected.

Crypto wallet MetaMask is finishing support for administrations of Wyre crypto installment stage in the midst of reports of Wyre wanting to close down activities soon.

MetaMask took to Twitter on Jan. 5 to declare that it has eliminated Wyre from its versatile aggregator, which permits clients to purchase crypto straightforwardly through its computerized wallet.

“We’re right now chipping away at expansion evacuation and value your understanding,” MetaMask said, asking clients not to utilize Wyre on the versatile aggregator.

As indicated by the declaration, MetaMask actually upholds a wide number of other installment passages, including Transak, MoonPay, and Sardine. The administrations are accessible on Apple Pay, bank cards and moves, MetaMask noted.

The news comes not long after Wyre Chief Ioannis Giannaros apparently reported to workers that the firm is going to soon closure activities.

“We’ll keep on giving our very best, however I believe everybody should prepare themselves for the way that we should loosen up the business over the course of the following two or three weeks,” Giannaros allegedly expressed.

MetaMask didn’t promptly answer Cointelegraph’s solicitation to remark. Wyre didn’t answer a few press requests from Cointelegraph.

Established in 2013 in San Francisco, Wyre is a significant crypto installment firm that verged on being obtained for $1.5 billion last year. In April 2022, the US online business startup Bolt consented to get Wyre. In the midst of the enormous crypto bear market of 2022, Bolt ultimately picked to scrap the arrangement in September.