He said that recent release notes from Microsoft corroborate his find. After scrolling through the list, he noticed the crypto wallet, he told Fortune, and was able to experiment with it. Lukas, who saw that Edge is slated for a redesign, found the prototype for Microsoft’s crypto wallet after he launched a special instance of the Edge to gain access to the browser’s unreleased features. However, given Microsoft’s sprawling workforce of hundreds of thousands of employees, it’s no surprise that it’s continued to develop crypto products, despite a public focus on ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s recently taken the world by storm. It has also flirted with creating virtual reality technology for workers in what it dubbed the “ industrial metaverse.” In February, after creating an industrial metaverse team only four months earlier, it laid off the entire staff of approximately 100.

Microsoft’s exploration of a crypto wallet continues the tech behemoth’s sporadic forays into Web3.

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