Gate News message, April 23 — Dan Finlay, co-founder and longtime developer of MetaMask, announced Wednesday that he is departing Consensys, citing burnout after a decade building the crypto wallet. Finlay said he plans to spend time with his family and wished the team well on their future path.
MetaMask was created in 2016 by Finlay and Aaron Davis as an Ethereum-based crypto wallet accessible via desktop browsers and mobile devices. The platform has since expanded to non-EVM-compatible networks including Bitcoin and Tron, integrated prediction markets and tokenized stocks, and launched a payment card through a partnership with Mastercard that offers cashback rewards in mUSD stablecoin.
In a follow-up post, Finlay highlighted the launch of Advanced Permissions (ERC-7715), a feature allowing dApps to request fine-grained permissions from users to execute transactions on their behalf without requiring approval for every transaction. For example, a user can grant a dApp permission to spend 10 USDC per day to purchase ETH over the course of a month, after which the dApp can execute these transactions directly. Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm commented that this feature is “extremely important,” noting that crypto can now offer recurring payment systems comparable to Visa and Mastercard.
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