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Opera GX launches GX Profiles and Video Pickup to enhance streaming and stream watching experiences for users

March 31, 2022

Today, Opera GX launches two new features, GX Profiles and Video Pickup. GX Profiles let users create several “copies” of Opera GX to separate and customize the browser they use to stream or to study from the one they use for other private activities by customizing each of these experiences. Video Pickup allows people to start watching Twitch or a video from another popular streaming platform on their PC and to continue on their phone right where they left off.

Opera Takes a Giant Leap Into Web3, Integrates Solana, Polygon, StarkEx, and Others

March 30, 2022

Opera users are getting seamless access to blockchains and decentralized apps (dapps) and services within eight different blockchain ecosystems including Solana, Polygon, StarkEx/Deversifi Layer 2 and Bitcoin as well as IXO, Ronin, Nervos and Celo

Opera for Android Integrates FIO Protocol. Users can secure free @opera crypto handles

March 10, 2022

Millions of Opera users on Android will now be able to send and receive any type of crypto to easily readable wallet handles. Opera offers @opera crypto handles for free

Opera GX integrates Logitech G LIGHTSYNC RGB to make gamers’ RGB-enabled set-ups shine when browsing

March 8, 2022

Create customizable lighting effects and animations to bring your gaming set-up to life in full polychromatic beauty when browsing with Opera GX March 8, 2022, Oslo, Norway – Opera GX has integrated Logitech G’s popular lighting technology, LIGHTSYNC RGB, to transform the browsing experience into a full-spectrum lighting experience, featuring over 16.8 million colors. Gamers, […]

Opera Integrates Ethereum Layer 2, bringing access to DeFi to Millions of Users

February 23, 2022

Opera today announces an integration with Ethereum Layer 2 exchange DeversiFi powered by Starkware’s Layer 2 scaling solution — providing cheap and instant Ethereumtransactions within its mobile browser wallet.

Nervos is the newest blockchain to become incorporated into the Opera browser after Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Celo

February 22, 2022

Nervos is the newest blockchain to complete an integration with the Opera browser after Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Celo. The integration’s completion comes as more users and institutions look to seamlessly interact with their favorite decentralized apps (dapps), games, and metaverse platforms and give crypto transactions powered by Web3 technology an extra layer of security.

Opera becomes the first web browser to enable emoji-based web addresses

February 14, 2022

Opera integrates emoji-based addresses with Yat. The browser company has partnered with Yat to integrate its emoji system in Opera’s browsers on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Opera users can now access emoji-based web addresses and register their unique strings of emojis as their personal domains.

Opera announces beta of a new Web3-Browser With Built-In Crypto Wallet

January 19, 2022

Opera, [NASDAQ:OPRA] the company behind the popular, eponymous multi-platform web browser, today unveils its “Crypto Browser Project,” offering users direct, frictionless access to Web3 services with beta versions immediately available for Windows, Mac and Android.

Opera to integrate Handshake for blockchain-based, decentralized domain naming

December 31, 2021

Oslo, Norway – Opera has announced partnership with the dWeb Foundation over an integration of the decentralized blockchain domain name system, Handshake. Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming system that disintermediates the old guard of Certificate Authorities operating in the traditional DNS namespace hierarchy by providing a more advanced, secure, open, and accountable network. The […]

Opera to Integrate With Polygon To Enable Ethereum Layer 2 Capabilities and Dapp Access in Its Browser

December 22, 2021

Oslo, Norway, and Dubai, UAE – Opera, the world’s first major mobile browser with web3 support and a built-in crypto wallet, today announces an upcoming browser integration with Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform onboarding millions to web3. The integration is set to occur in Q1 2022 and will enable millions of Opera users in-browser access […]