MetaMask Monthly: October 2021 ✉️
Token Detection, Ledger Changes Coming Soon, Extension’s Button Makeover and Watch Out For New Scams! 🕵️️
This month we met some of you in Lisbon, we gave our Extension buttons a makeover and made it easier to detect tokens you may be missing in your wallet. On the topic of missing things, watch our new video about how to find missing accounts. Finally, keep an eye out for Ledger integration improvements, coming soon.
Oh and no, we didn’t change our name to FACE.
BE AWARE: we identified a new email scam (read below for more information). Scamming activity continues to evolve. Keep this in mind when you receive emails, messages, or any other type of communication asking you to click links or share sensitive information.
Ledger Users: We Are Making Your Life Easier
🛠 Hardware Wallets
Our improved Ledger support is rolling out gradually to Extension users now! We are migrating away from the previous approach of bridging to the Ledger Live app, and instead are creating a new direct integration between Ledger and MetaMask. We hope this removes the frustration we heard from you since the Chrome changes earlier this year. Additionally, Ledger users can be confident that the teams will be collaborating closely to ensure a great user experience moving forward. Keep an eye out on our Twitter account for more information, which is coming soon.
NEW: Improved Token Detection Feature
🦊 Product
With the roll out of our new Extension (10.3.0) and App (3.4.1) release, you will find a new feature: improved token detection! This feature improves our auto-detection of your owned tokens without having to import them manually. Note: currently, this is an experimental opt-in feature and only available on Ethereum Mainnet. You can enable it by going into the “Experimental” section of Settings now! Please stay safe and operate with caution, do your due diligence and don’t interact with unfamiliar tokens.
Extension Button Change
🧩 Extension
Extension’s button style has been given a makeover! It was inconsistent and not in parity with mobile’s button design. Below the big reveal about how we changed our Extension button in v10.3.0. So not to stress if you notice the difference, it’s still us. More information in this Tweet.
New Scam Alert: Phishing Emails
🕵️ Scams
Some of our users have received emails coming from “noreply@metamask.io” asking them to verify their MetaMask wallet. This is a scam!
We don’t ask for your email address when you create a MetaMask wallet, so we would never be able to ask you to verify it.
Lisbon 2021
📍 Events
We had so much fun joining the crowd in Lisbon where we hosted events with our awesome MetaMask panel for Q&A, we handed out swag and met a lot of new people. Missed us? Don’t worry, our next stop is NFT.NYC. We look forward to seeing you in The Big Apple.
Updates to Buy ETH with MetaMask
🛒 Onramps
- For our U.S. users: Wyre is rolling out ACH (🇺🇸 bank transfers) this week! Extension users will be able to select this when buying ETH through MetaMask. Currently, the default is set to “Credit/Debit”, but when you click “edit” you can now select “ACH Transfer”. ACH allows for a higher purchase limit and lower fees.
- Transak added support for 15 new currencies. See here for the full list.
New Extension and App Releases
📲#What’s New
The Fox doesn’t sleep. Want to know what we’ve been working on? Check out some of our updates from the new releases we launched this month:
Extension
v10.3.0:
- We’ve changed the style of our buttons to be friendlier! Don’t be alarmed when you see rounded edges on our buttons.
V10.4.0
- #12400: Add text to Restore Account screen noting current wallet replacement
- #12420: Fix missing conversion rates in Swaps token dropdown
- #12403: Fix incorrect default locale used during onboarding
- #12484: Prevent occasional incorrect “No Quotes Found” result in Swaps
- #12550: Prevent occasional ‘BigNumber’ error on the confirm screen when sending tokens
V10.5.0
- #12411: Add support for connecting Ledger devices to MetaMask via WebHID
Mobile App
V3.4.0 & V3.4.1:
- We soft-launched our improved token detection as an opt-in experimental feature on Ethereum Mainnet, and needs to be toggled ON in “Settings”. Try it out and give feedback to help us balance security & usability. Soon to come on some custom networks.
- We enhanced transaction stability on the app, and will continue to iterate in future updates.
- Bug fixes.
- V3.3.0 release note: we said we support the “switch_Ethereum” method. This is incorrect — we support the “wallet_switchEthereumChain” method.
V3.5.0:
- Technical improvements to help reduce the occurrence of ‘Storage Limit’ error.
- Tokens now support IPFS linked images.
- Bug fixes 🐜
Learn
🎬[Video] How to find your missing account
If you’ve recovered a MetaMask wallet, you may have noticed one or more accounts missing. This video will help you understand six possible reasons for this and how to restore your accounts in your MetaMask wallet.
New Custodian Integrations for MetaMask Institutional
The Blue Fox
This month, MetaMask Institutional announced partnerships with BitGo, Cactus Custody, and Qredo to provide small and large organizations with access to DeFi that fulfills institution-required security, operational efficiency, and compliance needs.
Want to Build Web3.0? Join the MetaMask team
🤝 #Hiring
We’re hiring!
- Agile Project Manager
- Product Manager
- Mobile Engineers Web 3
- Senior Mobile Software Engineer React Native
- Product Managers (here and here)
- Product Marketing Manager
- And more…
This is just a snapshot of what roles we’re looking to hire for. Make sure you check out all the open MetaMask roles and Marketing roles we’re hiring for at the moment.
Keep on exploring! Remember, if you ever need a little help, head to our Community Support Channel or jump into the MetaMask Discord to connect with the team.
Team MetaMask 🦊
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