According to a Twitter thread by software resercher Albacore on March 17, Microsoft is reportedly developing a Web3 wallet that will be integrated into its Edge web browser. Screenshots appear to show an intergration into Edge but have yet to be confirmed by Microsoft.
The wallet is expected to be noncustodial, with Microsoft having no access to passwords and recovery keys, and it will be “embedded in Edge” as opposed to being an installed browser extension. The screenshots shared in the thread show the ability to swap, send, and buy crypto assets, with Coinbase and MoonPay being integrated as platforms that help users purchase and deposit crypto to their wallet.
This latest move from Microsoft if true will mark a major effort to ramp up the offerings and capabilities of Edge, which has has fallen behind competitors such as Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari in terms of popularity, and web3 connectivity. The european software researcher “Albacore” who tweeted the screenshots went on to say
“[The] Edge team are kings of throwing every imaginable thing at the wall and seeing if it sticks,” the researcher said. “The list of obsolete gimmick features that they tried and eventually removed is quite long.”
Albacore also says the Edge wallet runs correctly.
“Considering I was able to use it just fine I’d imagine that a rollout is not out of question,” Albacore told Decrypt. “[I] would hope that if it was a tiny trial they wouldn’t bother deploying the services to production.”
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