Everything in the land of Cryptocurrency seems to be magical at the moment. Whether it is a new ICO or the latest currency based upon transactions between dental offices and insurance companies, it seems nothing is off limits, or even worse, has no limits regarding unfettered emotions and potential. But there are waves being made that are real and not part of a mirage. Those waves belong to Litecoin, and they are being produced in the form of a magical app fittingly called ‘Abra’.

Abra, a Digital Cryptocurrency trading app, provides the ability to trade between twenty different cryptocurrencies and fifty different fiat currencies. This by itself is already unprecedented. It has provided the company an edge in an attempt to corner the holy grail of this new paradigm shift…the all-purpose electronic wallet.

The potential uses for this digital wallet are amazing, but even more staggering will be the worldwide customer base. Literally anyone in the world can use the wallet. From Australia to Zaire, the location of the wallet user does not matter. The currency, in most cases, won’t matter. The choice in one of the top cryptocurrencies won’t matter. All that will matter is that you will be able to do it all…buy, sell, and trade on one app.

Even with all of these capabilities the real story here, at least if you are a cryptocurrency fanatic, will be the rabbit in the hat to which all this transactional magic will take place. That rabbit is none other than the furry, loveable and dynamic Litecoin.

While Bill Barhydt, the CEO and influential leader of Abra had everyone focused on the right hand giving us the obvious news, the left hand was holding onto something that only a select few knew about. That ‘something’ was the big, unexpected surprise Litecoin creator, Charlie Lee, was alluding to for months.

For all the great things this new app will bring the crypto community, the real sleight of hand belongs to Mr. Lee. Abra is expected to bring in an unprecedented number of investors and traders into one space, and tucked away in all of that will be the simple fact that every single transaction to take place on that platform will eventually be settled via Litecoin. Not just those transactions involving Litecoin, but ALL transactions that take place on Abra (fiat to crypto, fiat to fiat, and crypto to crypto) that take place will be settled with Litecoin as the intermediary currency.

To put this in perspective, shortly after the announcement of Abra was announced in mid-March, I tweeted to another crypto follower how best to imagine the impact that this would have on Litecoin. In typical fashion, I was thinking about food at the time of the announcement, so I used a fruit stand to illustrate that impact.

Let’s say a person is walking down the street and comes upon a fruit stand. At this fruit stand, each fruit is provided by a separate farmer. Every fruit imaginable can be bought at this stand. Apples, oranges, kiwis, bananas, etc. You are the farmer that supplies the bananas, but there are only a finite number of bananas that will ever be grown, so at some point your bananas will become inherently more and more valuable. Some of the other fruits are limited in number as well, and those numbers may vary, but others can be grown to any amount determined suitable by the farmer that raises them.

Some people may only want to buy apples when they go to this fruit stand. Others may like to buy a couple of different fruits at a time, or even decide to switch their fruits from time to time. But in the end, every time they either buy, sell or trade their fruit at this specific stand, the transaction will be done in Litecoin.

Now throw in an expansion to this stand. Right next to it is a wide array of fifty vegetables as well. Almost every popular vegetable a person would want or need. Tomatoes, corn, beans, etc. They’re all a part of this additional stand and the same principles of the fruit stand apply here as well, except every vegetable available has an unlimited that can be grown. Both stands are managed by the same person, but that person is not you, the banana farmer.

Most farmers would be happy with the fact that their fruit or vegetable is even available for sale at this stand. But you, the banana farmer, have bigger plans. While the other farmers are planning their crop yields and potential gains for their crop, you manage to bend the ear of the stand owner and strike up a deal. In short, the two of you agree that the only way in which anyone will be able to buy, sell or trade their fruits or vegetables at this stand is to settle all transactions through bananas.

This will cause a number of things to occur in order to support the new deal. First and foremost, the stand owner will need to have enough bananas in place at all times to even cover the back and forth buying, selling and trading that will take place. This will substantially boost the value of the bananas beyond whatever they are already worth to the general public because the only true currency when it comes to reality of exchange value at this stand is exclusive to the banana.

The second effect this will cause, is the overall scarcity and exponential value of bananas at other fruit stands and every home throughout the world. If this were to happen at a mom and pop fruit stand, the impact most likely would not have any real domino effect. But the stand you struck a deal with has the potential to be one of the biggest, if not THE biggest stand on the entire planet. This means that anyone who wants to own a banana, or even a portion of a banana, will now have more purchasing power in relation to the value of all other fruits and vegetables. It is a win, win.

And lastly, by having so many bananas out of competing exchanges’ circulation and away from others who may want to control the price of the banana, it causes the banana’s price to be more stable and reliable after the initial power grab has subsided. So as long as your deal with the stand owner is in place, you in all reality are in pseudo-control of the stands.

But how is that possible?

Because the only fruit or vegetable ever under actual possession by the stand owner was your bananas the entire time. Everyone who buys, sells or trades for any other fruit or vegetable will simply be buying a claim in one that was never physically at the stand. It’s like they are buying a picture of their apple or tomato and carrying it home with them. They may be able to take that picture with them and say they own that apple, but that is really it. The only true fruit anyone is bringing to or taking away from that combination fruit & vegetable stand is a banana.

So yes, Abra will be providing a service for customers to buy, sell or trade their pictures of 20 different cryptocurrencies and 50 different fiat currencies from around the world, but the only thing you need to remember is at this stand, there really is only ONE top banana; Litecoin.

And that, my friends, is one truly amazing magic trick.