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WalletConnect, a merchandise for connecting Ethereum wallets, has raised $11 cardinal successful a Series A backing circular co-led by Union Square Ventures and 1kx astatine an undisclosed valuation, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk. The superior volition assistance standard wallet interoperability and make a generalized messaging layer.
“Web 3 isn’t implicit without immoderate signifier of mean to pass betwixt users,” WalletConnect co-founder Pedro Gomes told CoinDesk successful an email. “Since wallets fundamentally present integer identities that are portable crossed applications, we are capable to make a shared messaging furniture that isn’t owned by immoderate peculiar wallet oregon application.”
“You could ideate this contiguous arsenic if a Telegram idiosyncratic and a WhatsApp idiosyncratic could connection each other,” Gomes continued.
Founded successful 2018, WalletConnect present has integrations with implicit 100 wallets and much than 200 applications, including Twitter.
WalletConnect is successful the process of processing a multi-protocol messaging network. The archetypal protocols volition subordinate to nonstop messaging betwixt wallet users and propulsion notifications from apps for on- and off-chain events.
WalletConnect antecedently raised a $1.25 cardinal effect circular aboriginal past twelvemonth led by 1kx.
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