Opera browser debuts stablecoin wallet MiniPay in Africa

The web level Opera revealed its plans to motorboat a non-custodial stablecoin wallet integrated into its mobile web browser which volition beryllium made disposable to its idiosyncratic basal successful Africa. 

On Sept. 13, the web services supplier introduced the MiniPay wallet integration, built connected the Celo blockchain, that allows users successful Africa to nonstop oregon person stablecoins by utilizing their already existing mobile numbers.

— Celo (@CeloOrg) September 13, 2023

Opera began its operations successful Africa 17 years anterior and present has implicit 100 cardinal users connected the continent. The motorboat of MiniPay volition statesman successful the coming months and archetypal commencement successful Nigeria.

Jørgen Arnesen, the enforcement vice president for mobile astatine Opera, commented that:

“Users successful Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa person indicated lingering concerns astir precocious fees, unreliable work uptimes, a deficiency of transparency astir transaction advancement and a deficiency of entree to mobile data.”

The caller MiniPay wallet volition run with sub-cent fees, and onboard and backup wallets done users’ Google credentials. 

It besides has integrated with section outgo methods including Airtime and MPesa, on with accepted slope transfers to let its users to adhd and retreat stablecoins from the wallet into the section currency.

Arnesen told Cointelegraph that specifically for Africa they developed the Opera Mini browser arsenic a “unique, data-saving exertion that allows users to surf the web and summation entree to accusation without having to expend a large portion of their monthly income.”

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Celo besides has a beardown idiosyncratic basal successful Africa and says the integration “opens the door” for much Ethereum-compatible dApps to beryllium built for MiniPay.

Arnesen besides mentioned that arsenic the merchandise launches, MiniPay volition enactment Mento unchangeable plus cUSD oregon Celo Dollar, which tracks the worth of USD, connected Celo. 

“This way, we are not confusing users with aggregate currencies astatine a time, arsenic would beryllium the lawsuit successful a regular crypto wallet. “

In April of this year, Opera announced a caller generative artificial quality (AI) integration into its then-latest browser update. The in-browser AI feature, called AI Prompt, gives users “contextual prompts” for web pages oregon highlighted text. 

Last December, it launched a suite of information tools with the purpose to support users against “malicious Web3 actors.”

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