FROM 598 LINES OF CODE TO 10 YEARS ONCHAIN: MetaMask Celebrates A Decade Of Self Custody!

Ten years of self custody is something worth celebrating!

From 598 lines of code to ten years of fun! MetaMask is celebrated a decade onchain with a fun new way to look back at your wallet's history and a sneak peek at what's ahead.

“Before there was an ecosystem, before there was an industry, before there was anything to compete over, someone was already building the thing that would let ordinary people use it,” Metamask Chief Product Officer Gal Eldar wrote in a blog post today. “MetaMask is, almost to the day, as old as Ethereum itself.  A year of building later, on July 14, 2016, the first version shipped to the world. That makes today our tenth birthday.”

 

Over the years, crypto has survived countless metas, multiple political administrations, and more FUD than anyone can count. But through it all, the Fox has stayed the course, kept users' funds safe, and grown into one of the most trusted and widely used wallets in all of crypto.

“MetaMask was the doorway to the ICO era, to DeFi Summer, to NFTs, through two brutal winters and back,” Eldar wrote. “It started as a transaction signer, became the default wallet of an entire ecosystem, and grew into a platform with more than 100 million downloads across nearly every country on Earth, with trillions of dollars in cumulative volume moved.”

 

To celebrate the milestone, MetaMask is giving crypto users everywhere the chance to reflect on their time onchain with its new Onchain Persona dApp, which analyzes your wallet's history, grades your degeneracy, and assigns you a crypto archetype. Be warned, though: if you were around during the NFT bull market, the results might make you a little nostalgic, or a little sick.

 

Find out yours here: https://ten.metamask.io/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cmp-173614558-afbf08

 

Along with looking back at the past ten years, the Fox also shared its vision for the decade ahead. While MetaMask didn't announce a token or an airdrop, Eldar outlined a future where nearly every aspect of your financial life happens onchain, opening the door to a more accessible and open financial system.

“MetaMask's next chapter is to become the place where your whole financial life runs: getting paid, saving, spending, investing, sending, all stitched together in one place,” he wrote. “Get your salary into MetaMask and it starts earning yield the moment it lands. Buy a stock. Pay for groceries with the card. Send dollars to your family for a few cents. And underneath, something no bank and no fintech can offer: because it's built on open rails, you get access to everything anyone in the world builds, not just what one company's product team ships. A neobank offers you what its team can build. We offer you what all the world's teams build.”

 

It's remarkable to think that what started as just 598 lines of code has become one of the most widely used pieces of software in crypto, helping millions of people take custody of their digital assets over the past decade.

 

The Gazette wishes MetaMask a happy belated 10th birthday and looks forward to covering the wallet's next ten years. Stay tuned for updates!