Wallets: April headlines

- Robinhood Launches 'Connect' to Link Native Crypto Wallet to DeFi Apps: an update that will allow users of its crypto wallet to access their credentials and funds directly from decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and applications—all without having to open the Robinhood app itself (source)
- Trust Wallet Fixed Vulnerability But Warns $88,000 of User Funds Are Still at Risk: “Despite our best efforts to minimize loss, we proactively identified 2 likely exploits with a total loss of $170K,” the project said on Twitter. “To do right to users, we created a reimbursement process for affected users to make them whole.” (source)
- Uniswap Launches Mobile Wallet. The wallet is intended to enable users to buy crypto, offering what the protocol says is a competitive 2.55% fiat on-ramp fee. Users can also swap funds on popular DeFi platforms, including Polygon, Arbitrum and Optimism. The wallet features in-app token price and NFT data, allowing users to favorite tokens and wallet addresses so they can track the trading activity that matters most to them. (source)
- MetaMask Denies Wallet Draining is Due to Exploit, which is a response to a Twitter thread tracing fund related to the loss of about 5,000 ETH. According to the wallet provider, an attacker withdrew 5,000 Ethereum (ETH), worth about $10 million, from different addresses across 11 blockchains rather than only from MetaMask users. (source)
- Trust Wallet Partners With Web3Auth to Simplify Web3 Onboarding Using Social Logins, the solution eliminates the current requirement of a written-down seed phrase, safeguarding users from human error and a single point of failure and thus strengthening account safety and security (source)

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