In Brief:
- MetaMask marked its 10th anniversary July 14 and named Gal Eldar chief product officer to lead Open Money, a plan to fold payments, savings, investing and digital assets into one self-custodial platform.
- The Consensys-built wallet has passed 100 million downloads and is building an Agent Wallet that gives AI agents full DeFi access with default security on every transaction.
- MetaMask said its protections blocked more than 6.5 million malicious website visits and stopped nearly 150,000 malicious transactions in 2025, sparing users over $500 million in losses.
MetaMask is moving past the browser wallet that made its name. On its 10th anniversary the company named Gal Eldar chief product officer and laid out a plan it calls Open Money, an effort to pull payments, savings, investing and digital assets into a single self-custodial platform.
Eldar will run that strategy as MetaMask tries to become an everyday finance product rather than a place to sign transactions.
“People don’t think about wallets or blockchains. They think about what they want to do with their money. And where you’re born shouldn’t decide what you can do with the money you earn,” Eldar said.
Betting on AI agents
MetaMask is also building an Agent Wallet, which gives AI agents full DeFi access with default security on every transaction. It’s the company’s move at automated onchain activity, and it keeps the security check in the loop rather than handing agents unrestricted signing power.
Security is where MetaMask spent much of its pitch. The company said its protections blocked more than 6.5 million malicious website visits in 2025 and prevented nearly 150,000 malicious transactions, helping users avoid over $500 million in losses.
A busy year of shipping
The anniversary caps a year of product releases. MetaMask added multichain support for Bitcoin, Solana, Sei and Monad, and it rolled out perpetual futures and prediction markets. It also launched the MetaMask Rewards program, the MetaMask Card for in-person spending, the mUSD stablecoin and a feature called Transaction Shield.
To mark the milestone, MetaMask released a feature that walks users through their onchain history and ends with an Onchain Persona Card assigning each one a custom class and level.
The wallet has crossed 100 million downloads and trillions of dollars in cumulative transaction volume, the company said.
From 598 lines of code
MetaMask, developed by Consensys, was founded in 2016 by the developer known as Kumavis and Dan Finlay. It started as one of the first self-custodial Ethereum browser wallets and later grew to support Bitcoin, Solana and hundreds of networks.
The origin is smaller than the numbers now attached to it. One developer pushed 598 lines of code the day after Ethereum went live, on the bet that people should be able to hold and use their money directly. A decade later the company frames Open Money as the same bet, extended.
“MetaMask spent its first decade redefining what it means to control your own money, helping millions of people access the onchain economy directly and permissionlessly. The next chapter is Open Money, how money works on the internet,” said Joe Lubin, CEO of Consensys.
Finlay, one of the two co-founders, recently announced his departure from Consensys after a decade with the company.
Eldar tied the next 10 years back to the first line of that original bet. “Success won’t be measured by how many people use blockchain,” he said. “It will be measured by how many people benefit from it without ever having to think about the technology underneath.”
