Description: MetaMask used to be a serious wallet. Now it feels like a gambling app.
Purpose: Marketing team needs to calm down
I’ve been using MetaMask for 6–7 years. For most of that time, it has been my default wallet: reliable, neutral, and focused on one thing only — being a secure interface to Web3.
The recent integration of prediction markets changes that character completely.
What used to be a sober infrastructure tool now feels increasingly like a consumer gambling app. This is not why many of us chose MetaMask in the first place. A wallet should be boring, predictable, and restrained — not nudging users toward speculative side-products embedded directly in the core UX.
Beyond aesthetics and principle, there is also a security concern.
MetaMask is no longer just a wallet UI. It now embeds a growing number of integrations, web-based surfaces, and third-party content inside the app itself. At some point, it becomes impossible for an end user to meaningfully distinguish between:
*the wallet’s own trusted execution and permission model, and
*externally sourced interfaces rendered inside the same application shell.
Even if everything is technically sandboxed, the cognitive security boundary is eroded. When more and more interactive, promotional, or speculative features are presented as first-party experiences, the risk of user confusion increases — and confusion is where real-world security failures tend to start.
I have no objection to prediction markets existing. I object to them being surfaced inside a wallet that many of us rely on as critical financial infrastructure.
There is an important difference between:
*a neutral tool that lets users interact with protocols deliberately and explicitly, and
*a platform that increasingly blends infrastructure, content, and speculation into a single experience.
For long-time users who value separation, minimalism, and trust, this direction is deeply concerning.
Unless MetaMask rethinks this path — or at least offers a genuinely minimal, opt-outable mode — I will seriously consider migrating to a more conservative wallet alternative.
It’s disappointing to say this after many years of satisfaction, but at some point, enough is enough.