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Ethereum’s most popular wallet will soon be integrating Bitcoin and its universe of layer 2s and metaprotocols. Is this the beginning of a cycle-defining vibe shift, or simply MetaMask reacting to a trend that has been long in the making?

Bitcoin is coming to MetaMask

Ethereum’s most popular browser wallet is bending the knee to King BTC.

Per a Consensys job posting, the MetaMask team is searching for a product manager to oversee a Bitcoin integration for the wallet. MetaMask, which is owned by Ethereum incubation company Consensys, rose to pre-eminence in the DeFi summer of 2020 as the go-to wallet to store Ethereum tokens and interoperate with DeFi exchanges like Uniswap. It is arguably the most popular Ethereum wallet available with a self-reported 30 million monthly active userbase.

At one point in the not-so-distant past, it would have been laughable to suggest that the wallet would integrate Bitcoin. Well, goodbye to all that. 

“MetaMask is expanding beyond Ethereum,” the job posting reads. “You will be responsible for the end-to-end Bitcoin experience: onboarding users to Bitcoin accounts (SegWit, Taproot, etc), supporting different types of transactions, enabling dapps to connect to MetaMask, and connecting with hardware wallets.”

The posting continues to say that experience working with “Bitcoin wallets and dapps … [the] Lightning network, runes, ordinals, BRC-20s, layer-2 networks like Stacks, Rootstock, and Spiderchain” would be a bonus.

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