Ethereum’s Metamask Browser Hits One Million Users

Ethereum’s Metamask browser has just surpassed one million users on its Google Chrome extension and the milestone came right when the ETH prices hit a seven month high so let’s read more about what is ethereum going to do with it all in the ETH news today.

The new milestone arrived with an increase in Ethereum transactions which have doubled from 400K to 800K in just a month according to the analysis by Trustnodes. The report shows that Gas had surged to the highest level since September 2019 while the transaction fees are still low. The network fundamentals are also improving and the hash rate is climbing again to a two-month high of 175 TH/s so the surge in network activity has been catalyzed by an increase in momentum on the markets as the ETH price goes towards the $300 price level.

A week ago, the world’s second-largest crypto asset by market cap also made an additional 28% and the market cap is now back to the position of $30 billion and the Bitcoin dominance is dropping as a result. All of this increases the usage of the browser-based blockchain tools such as Ethereum’s metamask which lets the users run dapps within the browser without having to run a full Ethereum node. The increase in the DeFi markets is also quite bullish for Ethereum because it is a standard monetary unit in this part of the financial landscape.

Metamask can be used to get closer to the DeFi platforms such as Compound or Oasis and can easily transfer and set up smart contracts for earning interest rates in just a few minutes. The goal is to simplify the usage of Ethereum and to bring it to the wider public by integrating the blockchain into the browser. There are also other extensions for Firefox, Opera and the Brave browser. The Metamask team now works on developing Snaps which will allow developers to build plugins that can extend the functionality of Metamask.

Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of Consensys, along with Eric Voorhees the Shapeshift founder will attend a blockchain even this weekend. Also as per the recent ethereum news, the energy giant BP will be adding its name to the sponsors’ list for the event that shows that the interest for Ethereum is growing.