Aside from the built-in support for dApps and a non-custodial crypto wallet, it also includes Crypto Corner-a dedicated point of access to the latest industry news, prices, important metrics like gas fees and market sentiment, educational content, and a calendar for upcoming events. The Opera Crypto Browser is a standalone browser launched in January this year and works alongside the company’s traditional Web2 browser. “The upcoming merge is the most important technological update in the history of crypto that will move Ethereum from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, thus making it more scalable, secure, sustainable, and ready to be used by the mainstream user,” Susie Batt, Crypto Ecosystem Lead at Opera, said in an announcement shared with Decrypt.Īccording to Batt, Opera Crypto Browser “is the only browser truly ready for this shift and the only one offering web users all the tools they need to give Web3 a try in a safe environment.” The upgrade, which the Oslo-based company describes as “one of the most significant updates since its genesis,” comes in the run-up to Ethereum’s transition from the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithm to a less energy-intensive proof-of-stake (PoS) model, which is expected to occur later this week. According to the company, musicians are among the early adopters of Yats for instance, singer Kesha’s Yat page is the emojis Rainbow Rocket Alien ( editor note: Vox’s CMS doesn’t allow rendering of emojis), followed by y.at, which redirects to her Kesha’s World website.Opera Crypto Browser, a Web3-focused browser built to work with a variety of decentralized apps ( dApps), now supports third-party wallets such as MetaMask. The owner of a Yat can create an NFT of their emoji string, and the company plans to eventually let users connect their Yats to electronic payments. Yat pages are unique domains generated when someone purchases a string of emoji (which itself is called a Yat).

com in their URLs,” Jorgen Arnesen, executive vice president of mobile at Opera, said in a press release. “It’s been almost 30 years since the world wide web launched to the public, and there hasn’t been much innovation in the weblink space: people still include.

Web browser company Opera said Monday it will enable emoji-only based web addresses “to bring a new level of creativity to the internet.” The integration is part of a partnership with Yat, a company that sells URLs with strings of emoji in them.

Opera browser now emojionly addresses