Masks Community has launched a buying and selling widget permitting Twitter customers to entry market knowledge and commerce Ethereum-based crypto belongings with out leaving the platform.

Powered by Uniswap and CoinMarketCap, the brand new Masks widget brings up a window that includes market knowledge and an interface for buying and selling on Uniswap when customers hover the mouse pointer over crypto asset tickers in posts.

In a Tweet thread saying the brand new widget on September 24, Masks Community (previously referred to as Maskbook) mentioned it hopes to develop the service to different fashionable social media websites reminiscent of Fb in addition to different protocols within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Masks has come a good distance since its preliminary launch in July 2019. Again then its widget was designed to allow Twitter and Fb customers to encrypt posts on the platforms. 

Masks has since developed plenty of ‘applets,’ together with a function that detects all tweets containing a Gitcoin URL to allow readers to make direct deposits to a grant marketing campaign in a single click on with out leaving Twitter.

A brand new model of Masks is slated for launch in 45 days, bringing a yield aggregator, portfolio evaluation, and ‘Preliminary Twitter Providing’ options to the widget. They’re but to clarify what that’s.

There are additionally plans for the widget to supply peer-to-peer funds, token issuance, and decentralized storage performance to Net 2 customers. The group can be eying the e-commerce sector, predicting that future variations of the widget will facilitate a booming marketplace for social content material within the type of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).