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Opera Adds Cryptocurrency Wallet To Its Android Browser

15 Dec Opera Adds Cryptocurrency Wallet To Its Android Browser

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December 15, 2018 12:33 AM

The browser could help cryptocurrency adoption, starting with Ethereum.

The Norwegian-developed Opera browser has been competing with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer since the 1990s, and in more recent years the likes of Chrome, Mozilla, Safari, and the new Brave browser. Since 2017 it’s had more users than Internet Explorer.

Announced this week at the Hard Fork Decentralized event in London, UK, Opera now has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for Ether and ERC20 standard-based tokens. So far, the new browser version is only available for Android devices, with the desktop version still in beta.

Project lead Charles Hamel explained: “We’ve decided to support Ethereum, as it has the largest community of developers building Dapps and has gathered a lot of momentum behind it.”

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin was complimentary, saying, “We see this as an important moment in improving dApp accessibility, opening Web 3.0 to mainstream audiences, and encouraging…

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