Unconfirmed: How MetaMask Grew Its Monthly Active Users By 5X in the Last 6 Months - Ep.233

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dan Finlay, co-founder of MetaMask, talks about the meteoric growth of monthly active users of the crypto wallet, which has quintupled in the past seven months. In this episode, he discusses: which crypto use case drove MetaMask’s active user base to grow 5x in under a year what types of scaling solutions are drawing users to MetaMask how MetaMask works what kind of customers are using MetaMask how MetaMask has grown without targeted marketing whether the type of crypto usage in developing nations differed from developed nations which feature MetaMask released in 2020 that is bringing in revenue what pivotal moments in crypto over the past six years have brought new users to MetaMask why scalability and security are the most important challenges facing MetaMask in the short term how MetaMask is trying to make online wallets more secure how much volume users have traded via MetaMask's new swap feature what new features are coming up for MetaMask wallets Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com: https://crypto.onelink.me/J9Lg/unchainedcardearnfeb2021 InterPop: https://hellointerpop.io/?utm_source=Unchained&utm_medium=episode-sponsorship&utm_campaign=interpop-launch&utm_content=interpop NEAR: https://near.org Episode Links MetaMask Dan Finlay: https://twitter.com/danfinlay MetaMask: https://metamask.io/ $5 Million Monthly Active Users: https://consensys.net/blog/metamask/metamask-surpasses-5-million-monthly-active-users/ MetaMask in Emerging Markets: https://twitter.com/MetaMask/status/1387114770923466755 Filecoin in MetaMask: https://medium.com/metamask/developer-preview-metamask-snap-for-filecoin-c28b01dfdcb Miscellaneous Robbie Ferguson on Unchained: https://unchainedpodcast.com/this-layer-2-solution-processed-more-nft-trades-in-24-hours-than-ethereum-did-in-1-week/ Marguerite deCourcelle on Unchained: https://unchainedpodcast.com/all-the-ways-crypto-can-make-gaming-more-fun/ Charles Cascarilla + Vlad Tenev conversation: https://t.co/2AG0y5j36B?amp=1 Link to the Crypto News Recap: https://unchainedpodcast.com/a-bitcoin-standard/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome to Unconfirmed.
0:06.2	The show that reveals how the marquee names in crypto are reacting to the week's top
0:09.8	headlines, you can see insights given what they see in the horizon.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Laura Shin, a journalist with over two decades of experience.
0:17.2	I started covering crypto over five years ago and as the senior editor at Forbes was the
0:21.8	first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time.
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0:53.8	Mirror is an open source platform that accelerates the development of decentralized applications.
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1:04.7	blockchain protocol.
1:06.5	Learn more at NEAR.org
1:11.0	Today's guest is Dan Finley, co-founder at Metamask.
1:14.1	Welcome Dan.
1:15.1	Hey, thanks for having me on, Laura.
1:17.4	Metamask just passed a big milestone, 5 million monthly active users.
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