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Lots happened this month! We grew our family by welcoming the MyCrypto team, met our community at ETHDenver, provided new features to MetaMask to make it easier to buy tokens, enhanced our gas UI on Extension, and delivered the ability to turn your phone into a hardware wallet with AirGap. Read on to learn more!

Growing the Family: MyCrypto joins MetaMask 🦊💙

This month, we were joined by MyCrypto. MyCrypto is an Ethereum interface that was initially established back in 2015. We’ve been close to the team for a long time and couldn’t be more excited to join forces to create a more extensive and secure experience across our products. Read more about the acquisition here.

What's New In MetaMask

Buy Crypto Across More Networks Using MetaMask

To make it easier to fund your MetaMask wallet, in addition to buying ETH on Ethereum, you can now buy assets that are native to Polygon, Avalanche, Binance Smart Chain, Fantom and Celo as well as a variety of stable coins across these networks.

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Fantom and Celo are currently only available on Extension, but will be rolled out across the Mobile App soon.

Binance Smart Chain, Polygon and Celo are currently not available in the U.S., but Polygon and Celo will be available to purchase in the U.S. soon.

Speaking of buying crypto, some exciting news for our users in India: buying crypto with Transak in India is re-enabled!

Enhanced Gas UI for EIP-1559

After we supported EIP-1559 at launch in August of last year, we listened to feedback and had a look at how we could improve the experience of setting gas fees. And with that, we have now launched the an enhanced gas UI which includes the following changes:

You will now be in the company of 🐢, 🦊 and 🦍 which represent the low, market and aggressive gas estimation settings respectively.
We simplified how to customize the Max Base Fee and the Priority Fee. No more math required to calculate the Max Fee. Hooray! 🥳
You can now set “Advanced gas fee” as your default option and it remembers your last set values to better support users who want to use their custom gas strategy. This means you can strategize for an incoming gas war and approve with a single click.

Note: The enhanced gas UI features are currently available on Extension only (coming to Mobile App soon) and is off by default for now. You can toggle it on in “Settings > Experimental”.

AirGap Wallet Integration

Turn your (old) phone into a hardware wallet. Using AirGap, you can now link the AirGap Vault to MetaMask and use it to:

Check your balance for all tokens
Sign transactions
Interact with dapps
Buy, sell, and mint NFTs

If you want to learn more about MetaMask’s hardware wallet integrations, make sure you read this.

Our Knowledge Base Got A Refresh

Our Knowledge Base just got a fresh look. We will continue to improve the looks, format and content. So expect some changes in what it looks like, but continue to check your URL to make sure you’re in the right place (bookmark it to be safe). Learn more about the makeover here.

🦊 Community

ETHDenver

How amazing was ETHDenver! We loved meeting and getting to know our community. Thanks if you were there and stopped by our booth, got your MetaMask caffeine, got some swag, or used MetaMask to buy food at the food trucks. We hope you managed to pick up some MetaMask socks as well 🧦

Make sure you check out the inspiring talks from Taylor Monahan about “The Wonderful World of Web3 Wallets” and Erik Marks teaching you “How to Revolutionize Web3 Development in 20 Minutes”.

Missed us? Don’t worry, in March you can find us at ETHRio, ETHDubai and NFTLA.

🔒 Security and Scamming PSAs

Watch out for Twitter Lists

Phishers have figured out that Twitter lists allow them to reach out to users in a way where there is no way to report it for phishing. Do not interact when you’re targeted by this. They ask for your keys pretending it’s for a giveaway. Remember: we will NEVER ask you for your keys or any other personal information.

Stay safe out there.

Learn

🎬 Watch

Bankless Episode about “the biggest wallet merge ever”
Infura’s Community Call featuring our own Erik Marks talking about Snaps.
Our Operations Lead Jacob talks about Snaps, gas fees and where Web3 is going at ETHDenver.
The first episode of “MetaFox Talks” with @dustyweb of ActivityPub and @spritelyproject who spoke about a futuristic kind of programming called Propagators.

📖 Read

🎧 Listen

Twitter Spaces with MetaMask and MyCrypto

Want to Build Web3.0? Join the MetaMask team

🤝 #Hiring

We’re hiring!

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.

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