What is MetaMask? Really… What is it?

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Sean Choi
6 min readJul 15, 2018

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MetaMask is a bridge that allows you to visit the distributed web of tomorrow in your browser today. It allows you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser without running a full Ethereum node.

… is what they say in their official website https://metamask.io/. However, to understand what this statement really means, you need to first understand what each of these words mean. I…

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Sean Choi

Stanford, SF, SV-based educator & researcher & engineer writing about interesting technical things. seanschoi.com