MetaMask Token Launch Imminent? Inside the Rumors Shaking Up Crypto

Rumors are swirling that MetaMask—the world''s most popular crypto wallet—could finally drop its long-awaited native token. Insiders whisper this could be the play to dominate Web3''s wallet wars.

Why now? With 30M+ monthly active users, MetaMask''s parent company ConsenSys has been quietly building an empire. A token would turbocharge their ecosystem—think staking, governance, and those sweet, sweet airdrops.

But here''s the kicker: Unlike some *cough* meme coins *cough*, MetaMask''s token would enter a market starving for utility—not just another speculative asset for degens to pump and dump.

One hedge fund manager quipped: ''If they time this right before the next bull run, even Wall Street might FOMO in—after they finish shorting it, of course.''

Lubin’s comments renew community hopes

Sharplink Gaming (SBET), famously introduced as the Microstrategy of $ETH, tanked 75% overnight after a few crypto news sites and KOLs shared an SEC filing and claimed the whole cap table sold 100% of their shares.

This had investors spooked and resulted in the stock falling by about 75% in after-hours trading. Apparently, these people did not really dump their shares as the sites suggested, and Lubin was one of those who clarified the situation.

Lubin also engaged a thread from another user breaking down how users could take advantage of the fall. That was when someone charged Lubin to tokenize $SBET so it could be available for purchase on-chain.

In his response, Lubin sounded positive and hinted at the potential of $SBET and many more protocols getting tokenized. It was under that response that one user took the opportunity to ask about MetaMask getting an airdrop.

“You’re probably so tired of this question, but will there every be a meta mask token?” The user asked. “Not a governance token, even a meme token WOULD do. I can understand the difficulty of making it fair. Wallet age and consistency of use would be a great metric for an airdrop.”

We have a short and medium term plan/strategy. It involves protocolization of our current products and other initiatives. And Web3 protocols need tokens. First out of the gate will be LINEA. Soon. More to come on this. And they will all be synergistic with one another.

— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) June 14, 2025

In response, Lubin pointed out that there is a “short and medium term plan/strategy” in place that “involves protocolization of our current products and other initiatives.”

“And Web3 protocols need tokens,” he wrote before adding that the “first out of the gate” will be LINEA and that the tokens will all be “synergistic with one another.”

Lubin on the next protocol to get a token after LINEA

After Lubin revealed LINEA as the first protocol to get a token, some users started speculating on the next protocol to get a similar treatment. One user suggested it would be Infura, but Lubin chipped in to say the answer to the question is most likely the Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN).

“DIN will probably be the next one. But don’t hold me to that,” he wrote.

DIN will probably be the next one, but don''t hold me to that. DIN is the Decentralized Infrastructure Network, an expansion of Infura. DIN is dial tone for the decentralized protocol ecosystem. Infura is working with many partners already from superscalers to niche service…

— Joseph Lubin (@ethereumJoseph) June 14, 2025

Lubin described the Decentralized Infrastructure Network as an expansion of Infura, calling it a dial tone for the decentralized protocol ecosystem.

“Infura is working with many partners already from superscalers to niche service providers to enable them to respond to requests on DIN with acceptable and monitored performance, based on Infura standards,” Lubin wrote. “DIN is an important service for MetaMask to enable it to scale more rapidly to cover the entire decentralized protocol ecosystem, because Infura provides highest performance but only on a small set of protocols.”

Lubin believes DIN is game-changing and powerful because it can enable Web3 to broadly own its own infrastructure.

“Imagine if the Web1 and Web2 builders and users could own a tokenized implementation of TCP/IP and HTTP.  DIN will enable this community ownership of the DEEP infrastructure,” Lubin shared.

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