Opera browser now also with crypto wallet for desktop version
The new Opera browser with the title Reborn 3, now also brings the crypto wallet into the desktop version. In combination with the smartphone, the users have a native 2-factor security without the usual middlemen. Opera explains proudly to be the first browser to be ready for web 3.
With just over three percent of the Internet user, Opera is more of a small fish among the web browsers. Nevertheless, 3 percent of all internet users are a considerable number of people. And with the new opera version “Reborn 3”, these now also have a built-in wallet for Ethereum and all the tokens running on Ethereum.
Opera describes this step with almost philosophical remarks on the nature of the Internet. “Since it was created, the web is changing continuously. The first incarnation has allowed users to receive information on static websites, but had no interactive elements. The current generation of the web, which often web 2.0 is called, the web made a community in which the users not only receive information, but also share. Social media platforms let people share their lives online; Shopping sites let things buy and sell.“However, people are slowly aware of“ that these networks, and thus also their information, are checked by a few selected companies.”
The answer is the web 3. “Web 3 is a collective term for a number of emerging technologies between cryptocurrencies, blockchains and distributed systems that together expand the possibilities of the web as we know it, in a sensible way.“You create a decentralized internet in which the information is in the hands of the users. “Cryptocurrencies and blockchain offer a new level of security for online transactions.“Unlike a physical wallet, the cryptocallet is also the identification of the users. In doing so, “represent a new, complete safe way in order to identify yourself on websites.”
So it’s not just about money, but about the internet in total. The browser wallet is Opera’s contribution to creating an internet that replaces identification through accounts that dominate user experience today-and lead to central websites that have such an outrageous power over their users.
But how does the opera wallet work in practice?
From the desktop to the smartphone and back
In the first step, as a user you need the mobile opera browser that you can install through your AppStore. If you activate the crypto wallet in this, Opera stores the private keys directly on the smartphone’s chip and protect them by the PIN or the fingerprint with which you decrypt your smartphone. The user can (and should!) But also export a passphrase from 12 words, through which it can reconstruct the keys in many other wallets.
Then you have to download the latest version of the Desktop Wallet from Opera. In this you activate the cryptovallet, which is then displayed as a wallet symbol on the left. The first time you start you are asked to scan a QR code with the mobile opera browser. After doing this, the desktop wallet indicates all ether and tokens that are stored on the underlying keys. It is nice that the wallet, unlike the browser plugin Metamask, already seems to be recognized automatically, including its graphic symbols, including its graphic symbols.
Only ether as well as the fungal ERC20 and the non-fungable ERC721 tokens are supported. However, Opera plans to integrate further cryptocurrencies and “DAPP platforms” in the future. The focus less on payment means such as Bitcoin because on Smart Contract Blockchains.
Technically, the desktop wallet is a slimmed-down version of the mobile wallet. It has no key, and there is obviously no direct function to actively initiate payments. Instead, she only reacts to payment instructions that are displayed in the browser. As soon as this happens, the desktop wallet forwards the payment to the mobile wallet on which it is confirmed. This makes the desktop wallet more of a plugin to surf the web 3-to identify and carry out payments-while every interaction is secured by the two-factor authentication via the smart phone.
This makes the desktop wallet a tremendous option to use your ether and tokens on the Internet or to identify with the browser without an account. Unlike plugins like Metamask, Opera-Wallet does not automatically send the user’s addresses to web3 pages, but asks the user for permission. A FAQ and a tutorial explain how to use the wallet.
Quite successful
Overall, the Opera-Wallet combines easy usability to use Web3 with the desktop browser, with enormous security through a two-factor authorization. This makes it a fairly great product and an excellent option to store everything that is based on Ethereum. The smartphone becomes a central device for identification, while the Passphrase allows the keys to restore the keys when you lose the device.
By being directly in the browser, instead of being placed on it as a plugin, it should have opportunities that a plugin does not have while benefiting from the existing synchronization technology of the opera browser. So you can only find that Opera has succeeded in a masterpiece here, the potential of which is far from being exploited, and that the other browsers will probably force you to do.