Crypto Wallets


Finance

Magic Eden's $5B Token Airdrop Raises Crypto Wallet Security Questions

To claim aidrops, users had to download Magic Eden's wallet, a highly atypical process that industry insiders said threatened to breach security best practices.

Magic Eden CEO Jack Lu at Solana Breakpoint 2022. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Institutional Crypto Wallet Provider Utila Raises $11.5M, Aims to Facilitate Tokenization Boom

Utila's self-custodial wallet offers a simplified user interface, fast onboarding process and recently added enhanced tokenization capabilities to better serve token issuers, co-founder and CEO Bentzi Rabi said in an interview.

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Tech

Circle to Let Merchants Pay for Customers' Gas Fees With Web3 Wallet Upgrade

Southeast Asian super-app Grab is currently piloting the new product to cover gas fees for its Singaporean users if they use NFT vouchers.

Circle booth at ETHDenver (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Tech

Coinbase Starts ‘Wallet as a Service’ Companies Can Build Into Their Own Apps

The U.S. crypto exchange says the new service could help companies “to help bring the next hundred million customers into Web3 through a seamless wallet-onboarding experience.”

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Videos

MyEtherWallet CEO: The Future of Mobile Wallets

MyEtherWallet's CEO and Founder Kosala Hemchandra joins I.D.E.A.S. 2022 to discuss the increasing demand for mobile crypto wallets and reveal new solutions for rolling out the best crypto services that will attract a broader user base.

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Videos

Paypal Expands Crypto Abilities: What’s Next?

“The Hash” discusses Paypal’s move to expand its crypto abilities, including allowing U.S. users to transfer supported coins to third party wallets.

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Finance

Terra Wallet Leap Raises $3.2M in Private Token Sale

If estimates in Leap's litepaper of an 8% private sale allocation hold true, the startup has a valuation of $40 million.

Leap is adding another crypto wallet to the Terra ecosystem. (Mad Visions/Flickr)

Finance

Block’s Bitcoin Wallet Will Contain a Fingerprint Sensor for Transactions

The payment giant’s new wallet will also be powered by a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and USB-C port.

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Finance

1Password Adds 1-Click Credential Storage for Solana-Based Phantom Wallet Users

The new collaboration is intended to make crypto security human-centric by simplifying login management and lowering the barrier to entry.

Phantom wallet users can store credentials using "Save to 1Password" (Phantom website, modified by Coindesk)

Videos

Canadian Court Orders Freeze of 'Freedom Convoy' Crypto Accounts

The Canadian "Freedom Convoy" saga continues as an Ontario court ordered the freezing of funds in over 120 crypto addresses tied to bitcoin, cardano, ethereum, litecoin and privacy coin monero. "The Hash" co-hosts examine Canada's "surprising totalitarian measures" and Kraken CEO Jesse Powell's reactions.

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