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Origins of Metamask’s 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay
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Origins of Metamask’s 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay

Origins of Metamask’s 20 million Web3 users, with co-founder Dan Finlay

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·Dec. 3, 2021·1 min read

In this conversation, we chat with Daniel Finlay – a former Apple software developer, co-founder and co-lead developer on MetaMask – a non-custodial Ethereum wallet, allowing users to store Ether and other ERC-20 tokens and make transactions. Further. With the growth of DeFi and NFTs over the past year, MetaMask has increased in prominence as an entry point for novice users. So much so that its user base is now over 20 million monthly active users.

More specifically, we touch on how Dan went from teaching kids to code to having an app rejected by the Apple App Store to MetaMask, the philosophy behind e-government, questioning the role and job of software engineers, how crypto wallets compare to neobanks, and so so much more!

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