{"id":588260,"date":"2026-04-23T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/metamask-co-founder-dan-finlay-leaves-consensys-after-10-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:55:00","slug":"metamask-co-founder-dan-finlay-leaves-consensys-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/metamask-co-founder-dan-finlay-leaves-consensys-after-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay leaves Consensys after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MetaMask<\/p>\n

MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay is stepping down from ConsenSys citing burnout, as long-time crypto figures such as Bitcoin advocate Preston Pysh also pull back from public roles.<\/p>\n

MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay is stepping down from ConsenSys after more than a decade working on the popular self-custody wallet, citing burnout and a desire to spend more time with his family.<\/p>\n

In a Thursday post on X, Finlay announced<\/a> his decision and said that he wishes the MetaMask team \u201cthe best,\u201d and believes they \u201chave an amazing road ahead of them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finlay has been one of the most visible faces of MetaMask since its early days as a browser extension in the 2010s, helping the wallet grow into a default gateway to Ethereum (ETH<\/a>) and other Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible networks.<\/p>\n

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MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay is stepping down from ConsenSys citing burnout, as long-time crypto figures such as Bitcoin advocate Preston Pysh also pull back from public roles. MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay is stepping down from ConsenSys after more than a decade working on the popular self-custody wallet, citing burnout and a desire to spend more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-588260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}