Gate News message, April 23 — Dan Finlay, co-founder and longtime developer of MetaMask, announced on Wednesday that he is departing from Consensys, effective immediately. In a post on social media platform X, Finlay cited burnout after spending a decade building the crypto wallet and said he plans to spend time with his family. “Wishing the team the best — they have an amazing road ahead of them,” Finlay wrote.
MetaMask, created in 2016 by Finlay and Aaron Davis under Consensys, quickly became a prominent Ethereum-based crypto wallet accessible through desktop browsers and mobile devices. The platform has since expanded to non-EVM-compatible networks such as Bitcoin and Tron, integrated prediction markets and tokenized stocks, and launched its own payment card through a partnership with Mastercard, which rewards users with cashback paid out in native mUSD stablecoin.
In a follow-up post, Finlay highlighted the launch of Advanced Permissions (ERC-7715), a new feature allowing dApps to request fine-grained permissions from MetaMask users to execute transactions on their behalf, eliminating the need for users to approve every transaction. For example, users can grant a dApp permission to spend 10 USDC per day to buy ETH over the course of a month. Roman Storm, Tornado Cash co-founder, responded that this feature is “extremely important,” noting that “finally, the crypto market can offer something everyone has envied about Visa and Mastercard — recurring payment systems, which crypto hasn’t had.”
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