Leading bitcoin payment processor BitPay has announced the joint release of version 3.0 for its Copay and BitPay bitcoin wallets, which brings together their codebases.

In a blog post, BitPay stated that both apps are now design-for-design and feature-for-feature compatible, with the exception of the BitPay app's BitPay Card integration. The new release preserves all of Copay's current wallet features.

This version 3.0 brings the sleek design and advanced performance of the BitPay wallet app to Copay wallet project. With this release, Copay remains a bitcoin wallet with basic functionality, but users can choose to opt into using the Amazon.com Gift Card and bitcoin exchange integrations, BitPay added.

With this design integration, Copay users can now get introduced to bitcoin and secure bitcoin storage through the same simple backup flow introduced with the BitPay app.

“Copay continues to be our main development head for our wallet platform, and we've built upon Copay's BitPay brand-agnostic open source wallet to make the BitPay app a powerful and secure tool for storing and spending bitcoin in its own right”, BitPay said.

In addition, BitPay also announced a new urgent fee policy setting, which will allow users to instruct their wallet to include a high fee for the transaction before they broadcast.

“As of 3.0, we'll continue to release updates simultaneously for both the Copay platform and the BitPay wallet app going forward – and we've got some big plans for what we want to bring to our users”, BitPay said.