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They want to become a money transfer service. The whole Bitcoin by email thing, it's a play to make themselves the middleman of a Venmo type architecture
So any two proton users who have the wallet enabled, can send and receive money seamlessly using their custodial key management.....
It's a self-custody wallet, they do not control the keys.