Users can also connect the Brave Wallet with hardware wallets (opens in new tab) like Ledger Nano X (opens in new tab) and Trezor Model T (opens in new tab). 'I think they might be gauging if more bits of the Brave feature set are something a portion of the user base would appreciate,' Albacore said.The wallet will also enable them to buy using fiat currency through Wyre, and find the best price match against a list of providers with built-in swap functionality.

But while Microsoft discontinued Internet Explorer last year in favor of Edge, Opera has created different iterations of its browser and incorporated a crypto wallet and connection for dapps into its Opera Crypto Browser.Īlbacore believes that Microsoft’s foray into crypto wallets may be an attempt to offer similar products to Opera’s closest rival, Brave Browser, the privacy-focused browser that also provides Web3 functionality. Microsoft’s first web browser, Internet Explorer, launched in 1995, the same year the Opera browser launched. “ would hope that if it was a tiny trial they wouldn’t bother deploying the services to production.” “Considering I was able to use it just fine I’d imagine that a rollout is not out of question,” Albacore told Decrypt. 'The list of obsolete gimmick features that they tried and eventually removed is quite long.'Įven so, Albacore says the Edge wallet functions correctly.

' Edge team are kings of throwing every imaginable thing at the wall and seeing if it sticks,' the researcher said. The enhancement is 'already baked in' to recent releases of the Microsoft Edge browser, but is hidden and not accessible to users.Īlbacore cautions that Microsoft builds and tests a lot of things that never see the light of day. The screenshots Albacore shared depict a user interface for a cryptocurrency wallet, a decentralized application explorer, a news feed, and the ability to buy cryptocurrency through Coinbase and MoonPay.

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