In Brief:
- Celebrating its 10th birthday on July 14, MetaMask appointed Gal Eldar as chief product officer to steer Open Money, an initiative that aims to combine payments, savings, investing and digital assets within a single self-custodial platform.
- The Consensys-built wallet has surpassed 100 million downloads and is developing an Agent Wallet that grants AI agents complete DeFi access while applying default security to each transaction.
- According to MetaMask, its safeguards blocked over 6.5 million malicious website visits and halted almost 150,000 malicious transactions during 2025, saving users more than $500 million in losses.
MetaMask is stepping beyond the browser wallet that first made it famous. Marking its 10th anniversary, the company appointed Gal Eldar as chief product officer and unveiled an initiative it calls Open Money, which seeks to unite payments, savings, investing and digital assets under one self-custodial platform.
Eldar will lead that effort as MetaMask works to reposition itself as an everyday finance product instead of merely a tool for signing 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
The company is also developing an Agent Wallet that hands AI agents full DeFi access with default security applied to every transaction. It marks MetaMask’s push into automated onchain activity, keeping a security checkpoint in place rather than granting agents unchecked signing authority.
Much of MetaMask’s messaging centered on security. The company reported that its protections stopped more than 6.5 million malicious website visits throughout 2025 and blocked nearly 150,000 malicious transactions, sparing users over $500 million in losses.
A busy year of shipping
The anniversary rounds off a year packed with product launches. MetaMask introduced multichain support for Bitcoin, Solana, Sei and Monad, and brought out perpetual futures and prediction markets. It additionally debuted the MetaMask Rewards program, the MetaMask Card for in-person purchases, the mUSD stablecoin, and a tool called Transaction Shield.
To commemorate the occasion, MetaMask rolled out a feature that guides users through their onchain history, concluding with an Onchain Persona Card that hands each person a custom class and level.
The company said the wallet has now surpassed 100 million downloads and trillions of dollars in total transaction volume.
From 598 lines of code
Built by Consensys, MetaMask was founded in 2016 by Dan Finlay and a developer known as Kumavis. It began as one of the earliest self-custodial Ethereum browser wallets before expanding to support Bitcoin, Solana and hundreds of networks.
Its beginnings were far more modest than today’s figures suggest. A single developer committed 598 lines of code the day after Ethereum launched, wagering that people ought to be able to hold and use their money directly. Ten years on, the company presents Open Money as that same wager, taken further.
“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 company’s two co-founders, recently revealed that he is leaving Consensys after a decade there.
Eldar connected the coming 10 years back to the opening line of that original wager. “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.”