Virtual cards or cards aliases would be a very useful feature to improve privacy online for many of us, and it should be offered in more places than US or Canada. For the people that says that there are alternatives that already do this, those alternatives only work for customers in US and maybe Canada. We need something that works in Europe.

Most definitely need this much needed wallet to replace Google Wallet and Apple Wallet.

It would be nice to have a private wallet app option that won't track your spending, unlike Apple and Google. It is a bit outside of Proton's venue but if they could pull it off, that would be great.

I'd love to see Proton Wallet be able to rival Google Pay, making it possible for Proton users to push another Google product aside.

This could implement your credit/debit cards, gift cards, loyalty cards etc.

It would be great to be able to create alias Debit cards that can have spend limits, the ability to destroy them after a payment and the ability to tie them to a single vendor, this would be a great competitior to sites like privacy.com

Allow users on Android (and possibly iOS if allowed by Apple) to make contactless payments at physical locations via the Proton Wallet app.

Potentially requiring support for fiat currencies or an automated currency exchange system.

I totally understand where you're coming from. While a Web3 wallet sounds interesting, having a more conventional digital wallet that can manage everyday payments would be incredibly useful. A wallet that links PayPal, credit cards, and even creates virtual card numbers for added security would be fantastic. The ability to manage recurring payments is a great bonus as well.

I've been using https://linkpay.io/, and it offers exactly what you're describing. It allows you to link your PayPal and credit cards, and it creates virtual card numbers to keep your real card number safe. Plus, it has features for managing and tracking recurring payments, making it a comprehensive solution for all your payment needs.

You should definitely check it out if you're looking for a reliable and versatile digital wallet!

Sites like Privacy.com don't support Canadian banks, so would be amazing if Proton made a service like this available.

i would use that feature

"Proton Pay/Wallet" - Like Apple/Google pay/wallet and E2EE for storage of credit card and using uniqie one time proxy credit card (wrong name maybe) for privacy and security against scimming etc. Using the device NFC feature

Would this be similar to https://privacy.com/ ?

Great Idea ! Similiar to the Alias Mail adresses, we could use Alias Credit Cards, which are leading to Proton, proton got our real ones and using those to pay.

Proton pass pay with wallet

like proton wallet is going to be built into proton pass and allows you to add like transport passes and payment cards for example you can pay on a website using it you can go outside but something with proton wallet nfc and you can go to your train and check in like that.

(Also make it available for smart watches)

Would recommend looking into privacy.com for right now. Seems to be the closest thing to what you’re describing. The service is completely free to create masked card numbers that can be entered with any cardholder name and billing address, or $10 USD/mo to also mask transactions on your bank statement.

While this would be nice to have, I don't think it fits into Proton's place in the market. There are be better places to dedicate resources to.

Once you go down the financial path your privacy goes out of the window. You'll have to comply with financial rules where anti money laundering and terrorism funding will trump any hope for privacy.

I use a free Revolut account which has throw away credit cards.

Wouldn't waste resources on this to be honest.

I don't really know if this falls under Proton's "decentralization of users" motif. You could try Privacy, and then there is a business bank called Slash that is hard to get in to but allows users to create VCCs and link them to Apple Pay on the fly.

Chad is spot on. They should be focusing on a smaller suite of apps/features that make sense together, and work to make those tip top. Photo sync is a logical enhancement of a cloud storage service and a calendar is a natural tie-in for an email service, but payments have nothing to do with any of Proton's existing apps.

If they can achive this without the Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements that are imposed on the majority of today's traditioanl financal system it would be amazing.
Unless it's KYC free, id rather see wider adoption of a cryptocurrency like monero

Proton Pay would be very useful and important. This should be the next product Proton expands to.