Opera just installed guard rails on the NFT on-ramp.
The company behind the
“Too few of the web browsing experiences offered today have been built with the intention of putting Web3 centerstage and making blockchain technologies understandable and easy to use,” reads the blog post written by Susie Batt, Opera’s crypto ecosystem lead. “Our belief is that the world of blockchain needs a fully dedicated browsing experience.”
Enter the Crypto Browser Project, a one-stop shop for people who’ve heard the term “web3” somewhere and want to invest their hard-earned cash in the Next Big Thing, but are a little unsure as to how to do so, exactly.
And credit where credit is due: Opera’s crypto browser delivers a fairly intuitive experience. It takes minutes to download the browser, set up a non-custodial wallet (meaning no third party controls it), and buy ethereum
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What’s more, Opera seems to have taken into account common — and costly — points of failure when designing its crypto browser. For example, because the browser already contains a native wallet, users don’t need to add potentially
The browser also comes with a “secure clipboard that allows you to safely copy and paste.” Which, perhaps, sounds like silly overkill — until one realizes that secretly altering cryptocurrency wallet addresses (which are long strings of numbers and letters) by
“The Wide World of Web3 is now at your fingertips,” writes Opera’s Batt in a promise the Crypto Browser Project appears to deliver on.
Whether or not that’s a good thing for all the people soon to be diving into web3 and NFTs remains to be seen.