Opera have said from the beginning that they are dropping Presto and switching to the chromium toolkit. New Opera is effectively a thick skin on top of Chromium

Opera have said from the beginning that they are dropping Presto and switching to the chromium toolkit. New Opera is effectively a thick skin on top of Chromium. The world miss reported it as them switching to WebKit, which is true but not the layer they are taking it at. It's no surprise that they are following google with Blink.