{"id":86438,"date":"2023-10-31T20:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=86438"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:39:00","slug":"metamask-adds-security-alerts-to-web3-wallet-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/metamask-adds-security-alerts-to-web3-wallet-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaMask adds security alerts to Web3 wallet extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MetaMask team, in partnership with Blockaid, has introduced security alerts in the browser extension <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-wallet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">MetaMask and Blockaid collaborate to introduce native security alerts in wallet extension <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/5IG5jmeMae\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/5IG5jmeMae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Block (@TheBlock__) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBlock__\/status\/1719349946774585763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The feature is designed to proactively prevent malicious transactions, protecting users from scams, phishing and hacking attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives of the companies expect that security alerts will help protect users&#8217; crypto assets from theft.<\/p>\n<p>In the desktop version of the app, users can already enable the solution through &#8216;experimental settings&#8217;, but the official launch of the new feature is planned for November.<\/p>\n<p>MetaMask <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coingecko-ranks-the-most-popular-non-custodial-wallets\">has more than 20 million active users<\/a> per month, making the cryptocurrency wallet the most popular in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Blockaid, the startup founded by former members of the Israeli army&#8217;s cyber-intelligence division, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blockaid-metamask-security-partner-raises-33-million\">closed a $33 million Series A funding round<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the MetaMask team <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-adds-option-to-buy-cryptocurrency-with-fiat\">added<\/a> an option to purchase cryptocurrency with fiat.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the developers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-adds-fiat-withdrawal-feature\">added the ability<\/a> to cash out digital assets to a bank card or PayPal account.<\/p>\n<p>In the same month <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/metamask-launches-open-beta-of-cross-chain-snaps\">began<\/a> open beta testing of the cross-chain protocol Snaps, aimed at expanding the app beyond <span data-descr=\\\"Ethereum Virtual Machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">EVM<\/span>-networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MetaMask team, in partnership with Blockaid, has introduced security alerts in the Web3-wallet browser extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,1287,57],"class_list":["post-86438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-metamask","tag-wallets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86440,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86438\/revisions\/86440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}