What Is Trust Wallet?
At the time of writing this guide, there are more than 35 active cryptocurrencies with Bitcoin and Ethereum being the two popular ones. If you are actively using or investing in more than one cryptocurrency, then a safe “wallet” is your utmost requirement. Trust Wallet is one such wallet, which is free to use and can store many cryptocurrencies and even NFTs. It is available for both Android and iOS devices. You can download it from respective stores. What can you do with Trust Wallet? The first thing you can do is store all your cryptocurrencies on multiple blockchain networks. You can also swap or exchange your cryptocurrencies for another one. If you want to buy more cryptocurrency, then you can do it in the Trust Wallet. If you are into NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), then you can collect them using the DApp Browser (by accessing the NFT Marketplace).
What Is DApp Browser?
Speaking of DApp Browser, what exactly is it? Before understanding DApp Browser, we will take a quick look at the meaning of DApp. DApp is short for Decentralized Application. If you take our regular apps, Facebook, Snapchat, etc., they run on servers all over the world that are under the control of the company. So, it’s basic working, all your data and other important functions are under the company’s command. But a DApp is different. They do not come under the authority of a single entity rather they run on a blockchain network (a type of peer-to-peer network). Do you remember BitTorrent? DApp is somewhat similar to that. When a creator develops a DApp, it runs in an open-source, public, and decentralized environment. Once the DApp is live, even the creator doesn’t have any control over the data. Coming back to the DApp Browser, it is a Web3 (another new term, which we will see in the next section) Browser that allows users to connect with DApps on Blockchain Networks. Using the DApp Browser, you can look for several DApps in the marketplace and install them in a secure way. Trust Wallet provides simple APIs for the developers to integrate their DApps into the Wallet and it also constantly vets all the DApps.
What Is Web3?
We mentioned the DApp Browser as a Web3 Browser. What does that mean? Web3 or Web 3.0 is the next iteration of the World Wide Web. Web 1.0 is all about the initial days of those Static HTML Web Pages. With Web 2.0, the number of content creators has increased significantly. Also, the emergence of social media, E-Commerce, Media Sharing, etc. along with the availability of cheaper internet made the internet more approachable. Coming to Web 3.0, it incorporates new concepts of decentralization and blockchain technologies. Due to this, Web3 has the potential to provide data security and user privacy.
How To Enable DApp Browser On Trust Wallet?
Now that we have seen some basics of Trust Browser and DApp Browser, let us now see how to enable DApp Browser on Trust Wallet. We are assuming that you already downloaded and installed the Trust Wallet app on your Smartphone. If not, go to the App Store (in case of iOS) or Play Store (in case of Android), search for Trust Wallet, and install it. Log in to the Trust Wallet with your credentials. Create an account if necessary.
a. In Android
Let us start the actual procedure now. Open the Trust Wallet app. You can see the “Settings” option in the bottom right corner. Tap on it. In the Settings page, look for “Preferences” and tap on it. You will get two options: Currency and DApp Browser. You might have guessed which one to select. Tap on the “DApp Browser” option. Now, you will get two options “Enable” and “Clear browser cache”. Tap on the “Enable” option and toggle to enable the DApp Browser on the Trust Wallet app. Once this is done, you can see the DApp Browser on the dashboard of the Trust Wallet app.
b. In iOS
Things are slightly different in iOS. This is because Trust Wallet removed (or rather was forced to remove) the DApp Browser in 2021 due to the App Store policies. So, if you are an iOS user, you cannot go into the Trust Wallet app and directly enable the DApp Browser just by toggling a button. Then, how to enable DApp Browser on Trust Wallet on iOS devices? There are two ways you can do this. Let us see them now. Here also, we are assuming that you already installed the Trust Wallet app on your iOS device and logged in with your credentials. Open Safari Browser on your iOS Device. In the URL bar, type “trust://browser_enable” and hit enter. Double-check the URL. As soon as you hit enter, you will get a pop-up message saying “Open this page on Trust?” Tap on “Open”. Open the Trust wallet app and you can see the DApp Browser labeled as “Browser” at the bottom. There is another way you can enable DApp Browser on Trust Wallet. For this, you can use any DApp and link the browser from that app. For this, we will use the Pancake Swap. It is a decentralized exchange (DEXe) app to trade, earn, and win cryptocurrency. Open any browser on your iOS device (Chrome or Safari) and open Pancake Swap’s You can see a “Connect Wallet” option on the home page. Tap on it. Now, you will see a pop-up with a bunch of wallets for you to connect. Tap on the “Trust Wallet” option. If you already installed it on your iOS device, this will open it and you will now have access to DApp Browser. Some users reported that when they click/tap on “Trust Wallet” in the previous step, they got an error. They were able to successfully enable DApp Browser by tapping on the “Wallet Connect” option and then looking for Trust Wallet. At the time of writing this guide, this method was not fruitful. We used “Pancake Swap” in the previous step as it is one of the popular DApps out there. You can use any other DApp if you prefer. Uniswap is another popular DApp.
Conclusion
With more and more people starting their journey with cryptocurrency, a safe and secure “wallet” is necessary to hold different types of cryptocurrencies. The Trust Wallet is a popular choice for this purpose. While you can easily store your crypto and NFTs in this wallet, there is a special feature in Trust Wallet that allows users to connect with different DApps or Decentralized Applications. But to access them, you need to enable DApp Browser on Trust Wallet. In this guide, we saw the basics of Trust Wallet, DApp Browser, and Web3 (Web 3.0). After that, we saw how to enable DApp Browser on Trust Wallet. It was a very straightforward method in the case of Android Smartphones. But on iOS devices, you need to go through a special URL “trust://browser_enable” in order to enable it. We mentioned a couple of simple ways to enable the DApp Browser on different devices. If you feel we might have missed some methods, please let us know in the comments section. It will be helpful to us as well as other readers. Comment * Name * Email * Website
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