MetaMask

The world's most widely used self-custodial crypto wallet with 30M+ monthly active users, supporting Ethereum and L2s with built-in swaps, bridging, and fiat on-ramps. Built by Consensys. 30M+ MAU. Integrated fiat on-ramps and stablecoin payments. Supports multiple L2s.

MetaMask is the default consumer gateway to Web3—its 30M+ MAU and integration of stablecoin payments make it the most important wallet UI for programmable money adoption.

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At a glance

Total raised

$715M

last round series d

Headcount

51-200

approximate · public range

Headquarters

Brooklyn

United States

Founded

2016

10 years active

Status

Private

Consumer Wallets

Latest valuation

$7B

Series D · 2022

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Funding history

Total raised

$715M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series D

Latest valuation

$7B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Mar 15, 2022	Series D	$450M	$7B	ParaFi Capital
Nov 17, 2021	Series C	$200M	$3.2B	HSBC, Coinbase Ventures, Marshall Wace, Third Point, ParaFi Capital
Apr 13, 2021	Convertible	$65M	—	J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, UBS

Founder backgrounds

Aaron Davis

Co-founder

A software engineer who was part of the early ConsenSys ecosystem, Davis created the original MetaMask browser extension alongside Dan Finlay. The project began as an internal ConsenSys initiative before launching publicly in 2016, eventually becoming the dominant self-custodial Ethereum wallet with over 30 million monthly active users. Davis and Finlay built MetaMask to solve a fundamental UX problem: giving everyday web browsers access to distributed applications on Ethereum without running a full node. His background prior to ConsenSys and MetaMask includes work in software engineering and product development.

Dan Finlay

Co-founder (formerly Group Manager at MetaMask, departed 2025)

Co-founded MetaMask alongside Aaron Davis ("kumavis") in 2016, initially incubated inside Consensys. Before MetaMask, worked as a software developer on web and early-stage Ethereum projects, bringing a product-design sensibility to what was then a developer-dominated space. He authored EIP-1193, the Ethereum Provider JavaScript API standard that became the foundational protocol for dapp-to-wallet communication across the ecosystem. He served as Group Manager at Consensys, overseeing MetaMask's product direction and UX philosophy for years before departing in early 2025. Known for an uncommonly principled stance on user sovereignty, he has written and spoken extensively about designing self-custodial interfaces that prioritize agency over extraction — a posture that shaped MetaMask's widely adopted progressive-disclosure approach to security and permissions.

AI bull / bear

Bull case

MetaMask sits at the center of a multi-sided network that would take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to replicate. With 30 million monthly active users, it commands distribution no other self-custodial wallet approaches, making it the default on-ramp for every new Ethereum user and the cheapest customer-acquisition channel for any L2, DeFi protocol, or stablecoin issuer. The $715 million in total funding—including a $450 million Series D led by ParaFi—gives Consensys a balance sheet to weather downturns and invest in the vertical stack: swaps, bridging, staking, and fiat on-ramps, all of which generate fee revenue directly inside the wallet. The stablecoin payments integration is the underappreciated catalyst. As regulatory frameworks for stablecoins solidify, MetaMask becomes the interface through which millions of users move dollars on-chain without touching a centralized exchange. Multi-L2 support means it captures value regardless of which rollup wins—Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, or zkSync—while the Consensys-owned Infura and Linea stack creates margin defensibility that standalone wallet competitors lack. In a world where every fintech app scrambles to add crypto rails, MetaMask already owns the terminal.

Bear case

MetaMask's $7 billion peak valuation was set in March 2022, near the top of the last cycle. Its fee-driven revenue model—primarily swap fees and in-wallet transaction routing—faces structural compression from DEX aggregators, MEV-aware order flow auctions, and L2-native fee environments where a 0.875% swap fee looks indefensible against a Uniswap frontend charging zero. The wallet's core browser-extension architecture predates account abstraction; smart-contract wallets and embedded-wallet SDKs like Privy and Dynamic are already peeling off developers who want invisible onboarding rather than a 12-word seed phrase. Regulatory exposure is real and unresolved: the SEC sued Consensys over MetaMask's swap and staking products, and even a settled case could force product concessions that gut the revenue engine. Meanwhile, competitors like Phantom expand across chains with a mobile-native experience and token-driven growth loops that MetaMask cannot match absent its own token. The wallet wars are shifting from browser extensions to operating-system-level payments—Apple and Google hold the rails, and 30 million MAU means little if the next hundred million users onboard through a tap-to-pay interface that bypasses MetaMask entirely.

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Leadership

Dan Finlay

Co-founder (formerly Group Manager at MetaMask, departed 2025)

Aaron Davis

Co-founder

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Products

MetaMask Wallet (Browser Extension & Mobile App)
The flagship self-custodial crypto wallet that serves as a gateway to Ethereum and EVM-compatible blockchains. Installed as a browser extension or mobile app, it lets users store, send, and receive tokens, connect to decentralized applications (dApps), and manage their on-chain identity. With built-in token swapping, fiat on-ramps, and support for multiple networks, it is the most widely used Web3 wallet with over 30 million monthly active users.
MetaMask Portfolio
A web-based dashboard that aggregates a user's entire on-chain portfolio across multiple addresses and networks. It provides real-time balance tracking, transaction history, and tax reporting integrations. Users can swap tokens, bridge assets across chains, stake ETH, and cash out to fiat — all from a single interface. It is designed to give users a comprehensive view of their digital wealth without leaving the MetaMask ecosystem.
MetaMask Snaps
An extensibility framework that allows third-party developers to build plug-in modules (Snaps) that enhance MetaMask's functionality. Snaps can add support for non-EVM blockchains (e.g., Bitcoin, Solana), integrate new security features, enable custom transaction insights, or connect to social platforms. This opens up MetaMask to become a composable platform rather than a fixed-feature wallet, enabling users to tailor their experience.
MetaMask Swap & Bridge
An in-wallet token exchange and cross-chain bridging service that aggregates quotes from multiple decentralized exchanges and bridges to find the best rates. Users can swap tokens within the same chain or move assets across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BNB Chain, and more. The feature abstracts away the complexity of manual DEX routing and bridge selection, making multi-chain DeFi accessible to mainstream users.

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