Opera, one of the major crypto-friendly internet browsers, announced the integration of eight blockchains in a continued effort to introduce Web3 to more than 380 million mobile and desktop users worldwide.
In Jan. 2022, Opera launched the Crypto Browser project, a Web3-focused initiative for facilitating navigation across decentralized applications (DApp), games and metaverse platforms. As part of this initiative, the browser company added support for eight major blockchain ecosystems, including Bitcoin (BTC), Solana (SOL), Polygon (MATIC), StarkEx, Ronin, Celo, Nervos DAO and IXO.
Opera said in the announcement that its users now have access to the Polygon and Solana DApp ecosystems, as well as “the benefits of Layer 2 DeFi via StarkWare-powered DiversiFi.”
The latest integrations enable Opera users to access Polygon proof-of-stake (POS) blockchain and Ethereum L2 ecosystem via StarkEx.
Opera’s Crypto Browser project. Source: Opera
According to the company, the intention behind integrating multiple blockchains was to ensure chain agnosticism and Web3 involvement in an environment-friendly manner. Jorgen Arnesen, EVP Mobile at Opera stated:
“Ultimately, Web3 is on its way to becoming a mainstream web technology and users won’t need to know they’re interacting with it. They need to get a superior user experience and a true benefit.”
The announcement further highlighted the need for carbon-neutral solutions with low gas fees, which stands as one of the main reasons for choosing Polygon over the Ethereum blockchain.
Related: Brave to integrate with Solana blockchain on its privacy-enabled browser
Back in Nov. 2021, Opera competitor Brave browser integrated Solana blockchain to strengthen its DApps capability.
We’ve partnered with @solana to integrate it into the browser and make it the default for DApp support. We will soon bring best-in-class wallet features for the Solana blockchain into our desktop & mobile browsers. #BreakpointLisbon https://t.co/tTB7NXKWjI
Citing the partnership, Brendan Eich, CEO and co-founder of Brave said that:
“With more and more users and creators requiring tools for fast and affordable access to the decentralized Web, this integration will seamlessly pave the way for the next billion crypto users to harness applications and tokens.”
Brave is yet to announce the addition of multi-chain support to rival its growing competition.
With the appearance of Metaverse, GameFi projects’ popularity is increasingly growing in the blockchain space whereas Web 2.0 traditional tools seem to be obsolete and not adapted to the Web 3.0 conceptual step up. This instrumental gap is filled by a unique partnership between Secretum and Edensol. Security, transparency, decentralization and immediacy as fundamental values of Web 3.0 meet safety and stability, menaced in other gameFi projects using traditional messengers.
What is Edensol?
Edensol is a revolutionary gaming Metaverse that combines fantasy action with the use of groundbreaking NFTs on the Solana blockchain. It’s play-to-earn gaming, easy to understand, exciting, and fast-paced. The main characters of the game are heroes, warriors, rangers, mages and pets. The value of an NFT character depends on its level of personalization (special cosmetic characteristics, number of types of pets owned etc.), as well as the frequency and success of the battles.
To sell and purchase NFTs players can use NSOL tokens and go trade on the Edensol marketplace. Edensol includes various types of NFTs, among which are heroes, whose value depends on its level of personalization and strength, gear (swords, axes, traps, fireballs, magic spells and battle outfits), eggs and pets.
The prices of these NFTs vary depending on the value of their superpowers, their looks, their not-yet-unlocked potential, and the rarity of their species. Some ultra-rare gear NFT items with completely unique artistic features and effects will be also tradable on secondary marketplaces in the future.
Significant advantages of financial gaming with NFTs in Edensol
A fusion of virtual gaming with NFTs is a confluence of crypto, gaming and money. Gamification of financial systems is disrupting the traditional gaming industry as we know it. It is the next step for the cryptomarket and it has various strengths and advantages. The total value of NFTs rocketing to a new record high of $43 billion in October 2021.
In contrast to traditional gaming, where users play to win, Edensol adopts a play-to-earn model and permits the revenue capacity of NFT, which is proven to be significant.
Edensol takes advantage of the popularity of video games, combined with unique features of cryptocurrencies
Edensol provides verifiable and constant ownership for the players. All data is stored on the decentralized public Solana blockchain, which keeps track of what everyone owns. This means that players, not the game developers, own all of the in-game assets, even if a server is turned off or the gaming company suffers technical downtime. Edensol allows players to maintain ownership of all their in-game items and currency, thanks to tokenization.
The game becomes reality. Due to blockchain technology, Edensol adds real-world value to in-game purchases. Interior tokens and items can be traded for cryptocurrencies and, ultimately, actual cash. When a user creates an in-game account, Edensol automatically creates and links a crypto wallet to that account, which is used to store NFTs, in addition to NSOL and any other cryptocurrency. At any time, players can transfer all their in-game NFTs to their crypto wallets, and then sell them on decentralized marketplaces
These aspects make crypto gaming with Edensol a source of real income for players. It could be a passive income or even a full-time one.
Although blockchain-based crypto gaming is still vulnerable to attacks. Players can lose all of their assets in a hacking incident. For example, a Discord server by NFT marketplace Fractal got hacked, swindling members over $150,000 in crypto assets. And here comes Secretum as a perfect game-changer for crypto trading.
What is Secretum?
Secretum is unique, fully decentralized, end-to-end encrypted and secure trading on the Solana Blockchain. The major innovation of Secretum is enabling the trading of all crypto assets (fungible and NFTs) directly between users, via a hybrid messaging and trading function.
Secretum possesses a completely anonymous and secure sign-up process with only a user’s crypto wallet address. It is DeFi, metaverse compatible, OTC, P2P trading dApp with access to smart public channels. All data is safely stored on the independent and verified nodes in the Secretum network, with no central point of failure.
Secretum is just like Edensol based on the Solana blockchain. So it is fast and cheap, with low fees and instant trades due to Solana’s capability of 50,000 transactions per second and an average cost per transaction of only $0.00025.
As gameFi projects and Edensol, in particular, are sensitive to cyber-attacks Secretum is a perfect detail to solve this problem and ensure the safety of users and their assets from scammers. Secretum provides a safe connection in the web 3.0 world and keeps players’ possessions secure and private.
Edensol + Secretum: complementary partnership
Thus, Edensol will use Secretum dApp to ensure safe and end-to-end communications for users, whereas Edensol will be a perfect addition to the Secretum community as a fantasy metaverse and an actual play-to-earn income possibility, combining fun-packed action with P2E features and the use of collectible NFTs on the Solana blockchain. Edensol community members will benefit from OTC, P2P trading functionality in the Secretum dApp. They will be able to trade their $NSOL tokens and NFT gaming assets without intermediaries.
This highly qualitative partnership allows gamers to avoid scammers. All thanks to verification of $NSOL tokens possession, safety and security of Secretum, a brand new Web 3.0 era messenger and trading solution. Being a solution to most of the insecurity problems of DEXs, Secretum perfectly complements the Solana metaverse and Edensol gameFi project.
Israel-based developer of blockchain applications, Kirobo, announced its integration with the well-known Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and the addition of blockchain guru Dr W. Scott Stornetta to its advisory board today. The company highlighted its plan to expand services in the future through the creation of a multi-chain service suite.
The integration with the hugely popular Binance Smart Chain will enhance the reach of Kirobo’s Defi applications. Moreover, Kirobo’s collaboration will facilitate the company’s goal of providing efficient services to users in the global crypto ecosystem.
The integration will provide several opportunities to the Binance Smart Chain users as they will be able to take advantage of Kirobo’s innovative products for cryptocurrency management.
Kirobo’s Undo Button has been making considerable waves in the crypto community, Having safely processed $1.7 billion worth of crypto transactions, its revolutionary ‘undo button’ is believed to have rescued $7 million in recalled transactions on the Ethereum network. In addition, the company’s P2P Swap Button provides a high level of security to direct token Swaps.
Launched in September 2020, BSC is one of the most popular services of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. BSC has already overtaken Ethereum in terms of the number of transactions per day. The integration connects Kirobo services with WBNB and BUSD, the two main gateway tokens to the BSC network. Moreover, the users of BSC can now use Kirobo’s services with a wide range of digital currencies.
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“Ethereum is a powerful platform, but as it struggles with throughput, exciting alternatives have appeared. People want to take advantage of them safely and effectively,” said Asaf Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Kirobo. “By integrating with arguably the world’s most promising smart contract-capable blockchain, we’ve extended the reach of our services to a much broader section of the crypto ecosystem. It’s just one milestone in our roadmap towards multi-chain support for all our current and future products.”
Addition of Scott Stornetta
In the latest press release exclusively shared with Finance Magnates, Kirobo announced that the company has added Dr W. Scott Stornetta, known as one of the founding fathers of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, to its advisory board. In the last few years, Stornetta contributed considerably towards the development of the cryptocurrency market through research and consultation. “We are honored to welcome Dr Stornetta to our team. His importance to the cryptocurrency ecosystem can’t be overstated,” said Tal Asa, Co-Founder and CTO of Kirobo.
Scott Stornetta and the Kirobo Team
“I’m delighted to be joining the Kirobo advisory board, and I’m very much looking forward to advising the team on the development of its products and services. I’ve had a front-row seat to the evolution of the blockchain industry and been fortunate to work with some incredibly talented and dedicated individuals over the course of the last 30 years, so when I met Asaf and the Kirobo team I immediately knew that they were doing something special. Kirobo’s offering is innovative and unique, and I’m excited to be part of its journey,” Stornetta said.
Kirobo also welcomed Nir Geffen Shimoni, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Better Alternatives, to its advisory board.
Dubai, U.A.E., October 28, 2021— MRHB DeFi the world’s first inclusive and ethical DeFi platform is integrating the Ethereum scaling solution zkSync, developed by software experts Matter Labs.
The move will mean that the MRHB DeFi ecosystem will benefit from the low fee transactions zkSync enables, while developers will be able to utilize zkSync technology on the platform’s architecture to improve efficiency, speed, scalability, security and privacy.
ZK RollUp solves Ethereum Scalability with Zero Security Compromises
zkSync is an innovativetechnology that is already live on the Ethereum mainnet. It allows for extremely low transaction fees, relies on a trustless protocol, and keeps funds cryptographically secure. Transactions use zero-knowledge proofs and on-chain data availability to keep users’ funds safe, with computation and storage being performed off-chain.
“At Marhaba, we strongly believe zkSync will lead the way as a ZK-RollUp solution for Ethereum,” said Deniz Dalkilic, CTO of MRHB DeFi. “Given its ability of 100% Solidity compatibility, fast finality with low fees while having the ability to secure unlimited amounts of TVL($), it makes it the perfect L2 solution for DeFi.”
Built on ZK Rollup architecture, zkSync ensures that it strictly inherits the security guarantees of the underlying L1. Unlike sidechains, Rollup validator(s) can never be corrupted. Smart-contract friendly, exchange friendly, the technology allows for contract-interoperability and atomic swaps on different exchange protocols and even includes native support for NFTs.
MRHB CTO Dalkilic highlighted that Vitalik Buterin has declared that “in the medium to long term, ZK rollups will win out in all use cases as ZK-SNARK technology improves.”
The technology is already in use by a wide range of leading blockchain projects, including Curve, Argent, and Balancer, and was supported in its ecosystem funding round by leading names in the blockchain space, including Binance, Huobi, Coinbase and many more.
An Ethical and Inclusive DeFi Vision
MRHB DeFi was founded with a vision of providing greater access to the growing opportunities and utilities of the cryptoverse for excluded and cautious communities, and has a particular focus on delivering faith-based DeFi services which adhere to the ethical investment and financing principles rooted in Islamic Finance, many of which align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Such business practices include those that avoid interest, usury, social exploitation and other acts deemed unethical as well as support sustainability, asset/utility backed financing, transparency and equitable risk/reward sharing.
With the Islamic Finance industry sized at around USD 3 trillion of assets, bringing even a small portion of Shariah-sensitive liquidity into DeFi will represent a major boost to the total value of the DeFi sector worldwide.
MRHB DeFi has also received strategic investments from Blockchain Australia, Mozaic, Contango Digital Assets, NewTribe Capital, Sheesha Finance, Acreditus Partners and EMGS Group.
About MRHB DeFi
MRHB (pronounced ‘Marhaba’) DeFi is a decentralised finance platform built to bring ethics to the DeFi space with an approach that supports the inclusion of faith-based and other excluded communities in addition to existing crypto-natives so that everyone can benefit from the full empowerment potential of DeFi to help build a true peer-to-peer financial and economic value system.
Based on the tenets of blockchain such as trust, transparency, and security, MRHB DeFi has encapsulated universally applicable principles of Islamic Finance into those tenets of blockchain to render a suite of offerings that are also ESG compliant.
The project is backed by a diverse and strong team with backgrounds spanning crypto, technology, faith-compliant investing, finance and seasoned institutional veterans of industry. The public sale offering will be in December. Register your interest and read more about MRHB DeFi’s Shariah Concept Paper, Lite and White Paper here.
zkSync is taking a cryptography-first approach to scaling blockchains and spearheading the scaling revolution by offering the cheapest token transfers on Ethereum. Next, they are launching general programmability, EVM-Compatibility, and off-chain data availability for a seamless developer and user experience, for the lowest transaction fees.
Axelar, a decentralized interoperability network that connects blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users, announced it has entered into a new partnership with Keplr, the largest Cosmos interchain wallet.
The partnership will integrate the Keplr Wallet into the Axelar network to unlock liquidity within the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond. Keplr is the most considerable Cosmos wallet and offers users all-in-one tools to manage their assets, access decentralized applications (dApps), and stake tokens.
Integration Interests
Through this integration, users will be able to transact, stake, and participate in the Axelar network governance via the Keplr web and mobile wallets.
Furthermore, the partnership will also allow assets to be transferred from the Axelar network to other Cosmos chains and back via IBC; supported by both the Axelar network and Keplr.
“Keplr is the go-to wallet for Cosmos users, and we are excited for them to partner with the Axelar network and support the ecosystem. This integration is a big milestone for the multi-chain future and to connect Cosmos networks with other external ecosystems.” – Sergey Gorbunov, Co-Founder & CEO of Axelar
Integration means users will be able to move assets from all Cosmos chains to other ecosystems connected via the Axelar network, such as EVM chains like Ethereum, Avalanche, Moonbeam, and others. This will not only increase liquidity for users but will expand Keplr’s network of dApps and their utility.
“This latest integration with Axelar network is satisfying a growing demand for cross-chain asset movement support across the industry. Axelar network will lead the charge in bringing highly in-demand assets such as Bitcoin to the Interchain; and further catalyze IBC adoption.” – Josh Lee, Co-Founder of Keplr Wallet
Singapore, Aug 2, 2021 — Amidst continued anticipation of the new ETH network (Ethereum 2.0) by the crypto community, yield optimizer CoinWind has seized the moment and jumped on the ethereum train last week, deploying on the ETH mainnet.
