Opera Releases Web 3 Browser Ahead of Cross-Chain Wallet Launch

Opera has launched the beta mentation of its “Crypto Browser Project,” an net browser with built-in Web 3 integrations, the institution announced Tuesday.

The merchandise is targeted astatine some “the crypto-native and the crypto-curious,” with Opera’s ain crypto wallet astatine the halfway of its idiosyncratic experience, according to a property release.

The main diagnostic of the browser is that users tin power betwixt applications without having to sign-in to their wallets for each caller tab, which volition enactment for immoderate app that has an Opera wallet integration.

While the existent Opera wallet is exclusively compatible with Ethereum, the institution plans to rotation retired Polygon and Solana compatibility successful the adjacent future, with a “big Layer 2 announcement” coming successful February, a typical told CoinDesk.

“We really judge that browsers volition beryllium much important successful Web 3 than they were successful Web 2,” Jorgen Arnesen, vice president of Web 3 astatine Opera, told CoinDesk successful an interview. “We’ve been astir the artifact for 25 years, and astir Web 3 since 2018. A multi-chain token strategy volition beryllium indispensable to a bully idiosyncratic experience.”

The crypto-centric browser besides features a built-in quality hub called “Crypto Corner,” on with Twitter and Telegram integrations.

The bequest browser isn’t the lone of its benignant looking to instrumentality vantage of increasing Web 3 interest, namely successful contention with Brave, different crypto-centric browser that boasts its ain payments wallet.

After successfully adding cross-chain compatibility, Opera says it volition open-source its wallet, maintaining a absorption connected privateness and security.

“We privation to make fundamentally an agnostic web acquisition conscionable similar we person done for Web 1 and Web 2,” Arnesen said.