Access web3 with the Coinbase app

Use common Ethereum dapps with Coinbase’s new dapp pockets and browser

Tl;dr: This submit highlights the power to entry and discover web3 instantly out of your Coinbase app, powered by our new dapp pockets and dapp browser.

By Rishi Dean, Director of Product Management

Over the previous yr, there was an explosion of curiosity in web3 and dapps, together with NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The whole worth locked (TVL) of DeFi investments on the Ethereum blockchain has grown to over $110B USD, whereas NFTs gross sales have grown to over $30B USD in the last twelve months (LTM) — with new modern real-world purposes rising each day.

Starting right this moment, we’ll roll out the power for a small set of Coinbase app customers to entry Ethereum-based dapps instantly from the Coinbase app. This contains shopping for NFTs on marketplaces like Coinbase NFT and OpenSea, buying and selling on Decentralized Exchanges like Uniswap and Sushiswap, and borrowing and lending via DeFi platforms like Curve and Compound.

This new capacity, to entry and discover web3 instantly out of your Coinbase app, is powered by our new dapp pockets and dapp browser.

Introducing web3 proper within the Coinbase app

With right this moment’s launch, customers can discover dapps with out having to handle a restoration phrase. This modern dapp pockets expertise is powered by Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology that lets you have a devoted on-chain pockets that Coinbase helps you retain secured. This is as a result of method this pockets is about up, which permits the ‘key’ to be break up between you and Coinbase. Ultimately, this implies in the event you lose entry to your gadget, the important thing to your dapp pockets continues to be protected and Coinbase can help in restoration via our stay help.

To get began, go to the brand new “Browser” tab within the navigation bar on the backside of the Android cell app display screen, and arrange your new dapp pockets. Once arrange, you’ll be able to search, uncover, and use Ethereum-based dapps instantly within the new dapp browser of the Coinbase app.

Looking ahead

We wish to allow everybody to seamlessly and safely take part in web3, and right this moment’s launch is one other step on that journey. We’re rolling out the brand new dapp pockets and browser expertise within the US on Android first to a small subset of customers, and plan to develop to all customers and platforms quickly. Stay tuned!

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Access web3 with the Coinbase app was initially printed in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, the place persons are persevering with the dialog by highlighting and responding to this story.