HTC’s EXODUS 1 which was announced back in 2018 is
now expanding its reach to non-crypto natives, meaning users who wish to buy
the phone can now use real money, instead of using cryptocurrency. The Exodus 1
was available for pre-order in October, but users had to pay in crypto: either
0.15 bitcoin or 4.78 Ether.
While 0.15 bitcoin or 4.78 Ether meant around US$ 1000
back then, the volatile crypto market brought down the value to US$ 571 or US$ 644.
With the option to pay real money, HTC is quoting US$ 699 for
the EXODUS 1. All the pre-orders are expected to ship by the end of March. This
is in addition to its original purchase options of BTC, ETH, and LTC. In
addition, through a new partnership with Binance, you can also purchase your
EXODUS 1 using BNB.
Moving past the pricing, Opera partners with HTC to
make Opera browser main and decentralized browser for EXODUS. The decentralized
web will allow users to protect and secure their own data by providing more
transparent peer to peer services, removing the middlemen that used to benefit
from holding your information. HTC’s EXODUS team is releasing the Zion Key
Management API to selected partners with a focus on protecting user data and
Opera is the first crypto-ready browser to take advantage of the API.
It has also added Etheremon and Decentraland DApps
in its ZIONVault integrated cold storage, as well as Taiwanese DApp called
Numbers.
