You Can Now Use A Built-In Ethereum Wallet On Opera’s Browser

The Opera browser has recently announced that Web 3-ready, the new Android web browser created the company. What is so interesting about it, though? The browser will come with a built-in Ethereum wallet. Before the announcement, the Opera for Android browser was already available on Beta.

In case you do not know, Web 3.0 will be the decentralized browser created by Opera, which will be a different version from their current centralized “normal” browser. This would make Opera the first mainstream browser company to create decentralized programs.

It will support other Ether (ETH) and ERC-20 based tokens, which means most of the altcoins created by Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Support for the ERC-721 type, which is used for collectibles like CryptoKitties, will also be supported on the app. You will be able to run Ethereum-based apps on your phone using the technology, too.

Charles Hamel, the product manager of Opera Crypto, the division of Opera that deals with the blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, has affirmed that, before now, you would need several apps to access cryptos and use apps on the Web 3, which made the whole process so difficult that most people did not do it. However, the new browser has removed these limitations.

According to him, the new product basically features most of the characteristics that were already seen in the beta version but it is far more polished and approachable to a wider audience as the user interface has been largely improved and has a very less confusing language.

Opera first announced that it was creating this software on July 2018. At the time, it only affirmed that it was an Android browser with a built-in crypto wallet. After, it decided to announce synchronization features as well.

Opera is clearly supporting Ethereum from all the cryptocurrencies. The argument for siding with the crypto specifically is because it has the largest community of devs behind the apps and it is still pretty popular despite all the problems that Ethereum had in the second quarter of 2018 when it started to be eaten away by the bear market.

The API of the Opera crypto wallet will be easily used to be integrated with other software. This way, the developers believe that it can be used as a tool to make transactions online, manage your portfolio, online identity and access information.

Krystian Kolondra, executive vice president for browsers at Opera, has affirmed that the main hope of the company is to push cryptos forward from their current place (a very speculative market) and make them actually be used by people in their daily lives. According to him, this is the most important point for cryptos to have a future.

According to Hamel, one of the main positive points of the beta stage was all the feedback. Opera used the feedback to ensure that everything would work as planned and that all the dapps would work as they should.

The result is that the app is very much compatible with all the programs and is way more stable now, as well as the wallet is considerably more secure.

Initially, the technology will be only implemented in the Android app of Opera, which can be acquired at the Google Play store, however, later the company intends to offer the same services for desktop browsers in all the most popular operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux). iOS app is, however, not the focus, as Opera doesn’t seem to like the fact that they do not have the same freedom to create dapps for iOS.

Even with more than 20 years of existence working with browsers, the Opera team struggled to make the dapp work. The blockchain technology is a different thing altogether and the team had one of its biggest challenges so far working with it.

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