Cryptocurrency pockets platform MetaMask has introduced the addition of native Bitcoin assist, in response to an organization assertion.
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- MetaMask has launched native Bitcoin assist, permitting customers to handle Bitcoin alongside Ethereum, Solana, and Sei inside a single pockets, enhancing its multichain capabilities.
- The pockets helps Bitcoin’s SegWit derivation path with plans for Taproot assist in a future replace. Customers should purchase, swap, and ship Bitcoin by means of varied strategies, although transaction affirmation occasions are longer than different cryptocurrencies.
- MetaMask additionally launched in-wallet prediction markets with Polymarket and a USD stablecoin (MetaMask USD) pegged 1:1 to short-term U.S. Treasury payments, out there on Ethereum Mainnet and Linea.
The brand new characteristic permits customers to commerce, ship and handle Bitcoin alongside Ethereum, Solana and Sei inside a single pockets, increasing the platform’s multichain capabilities, the corporate acknowledged.
Customers who replace to the newest model of MetaMask will mechanically obtain a Bitcoin handle by means of the pockets’s multichain accounts, in response to the announcement. The pockets helps Bitcoin’s native SegWit derivation path, with Taproot assist deliberate for a future replace.
The corporate acknowledged that customers should buy Bitcoin utilizing native foreign money and regionally out there cost strategies, swap into Bitcoin from EVM-based networks or Solana, and ship or obtain Bitcoin to and from exchanges or different wallets. Bitcoin transactions usually take longer to substantiate than different cryptocurrencies, the corporate famous.
Earlier this month, MetaMask introduced the launch of in-wallet prediction markets powered by Polymarket, permitting customers to commerce on real-world occasion outcomes. The prediction markets allow customers to purchase and promote money-backed positions on future outcomes throughout areas together with sports activities, politics and cryptocurrency, creating worth alerts that replicate collective expectations, in response to the corporate.
In September, the agency introduced MetaMask USD, a wallet-native stablecoin. The stablecoin is supported on Ethereum Mainnet and Linea and is pegged 1:1 to short-term U.S. Treasury payments, the corporate acknowledged.
