Opera extends the crypto browser to iOS for access to 9 blockchain ecosystems

Opera extends the crypto browser to iOS for access to 9 blockchain ecosystems

Since the demand for defi presence continues to increase, the native web3 web browser and wallet provider Opera announced the support for Apple's iOS today. The browser wallet is therefore available on all important desktop and mobile platforms. Together with the integration of blockchain ecosystems, including Solana, Bitcoin, Polygon and Starkex, the company makes a strong contribution to the mainstream introduction of wallet software.

According to A, the company based in Norway has “tens of million users”. press release The now to decentralized apps and other services over nine Blockchain ecosystems on Mac, Windows, Android and now iOS can access.

"The Opera Crypto Browser Project was developed to simplify the web3 user experience, which was often confusing for mainstream users," said Jorgen Arnesen, Executive Vice President of Mobile at Opera.

"Opera believes that Web3 must be easy to use to exploit his full potential and a mass acceptance."

The integration is announced, since a number of defi wallets (decentralized finances) have entered the room in the past few months. Investors and users of cryptocurrencies who want to deal with Defi need a non -kept wallet, such as the product of Opera, to store their assets.

other browser-based non-custodial walls appeared last year, such as the phantom introduced in April 2021, which achieved $ 1.2 billion at the beginning of this year when its series B increase of $ 102 million was completed.

The XDefi wallet was introduced in October 2021 after a 6 million US-led financing round was collected in a round of financing in Series A. It is a multichain wallet with a web browser extension, similar to Metamask, the leading crypto wallet extension, which was recently advertised with over 30 million active users.

Opera had 2.81% of the global browser market share, according to Statcounter and the company said in March that it has 380 million monthly users.

The company, as it calls it, has made a "shift in direction" towards markets with higher average income per user, according to his financial report for the fourth quarter of 2021, but continues to concentrate on emerging markets, in which its market share was historically higher. For example, data from Statcounter last month shows Apple's Safari browser on mobile devices in Africa with about 13 % of the market and thus Google's chrome browser is in second place. The mobile version of Opera even occupies first place in nigeria-Africa's largest economy-with a market share of 47 %.