MetaMask’s drop-down now lists Sei, sending the wallet’s massive user base straight onto the speed-demon chain.
MetaMask just rolled out the welcome mat for Sei (SEI), plugging one of the fastest layer-1s straight into the go-to wallet for everyone from normies to market-making bots.
The integration is simple: fire up MetaMask, pick Sei from the dropdown, and send tokens across without juggling bridges or custom RPC copy-paste rituals. For Sei, that instant distribution could be a stress test disguised as a gift. Behind that clean flow lurk big numbers – daily actives on the chain ballooned from 1,300 to almost 900,000 since V2, transactions sprint past 1.6 million each day, and TVL hit $687 million before this hookup even landed.
Now the wallet’s 100-million user funnel can slam into that liquidity, giving DEXes the kind of order books that make market makers purr. Developers grin because they keep EVM tooling, institutions eye the low-latency finality, and retail traders finally get speed without roulette-style gas fees.
Critics will gripe it is just another cash grab, but the faster confirmation times make arbitrage loops feel like cheating, so usage will test the claim in real time. If the launch holds up under load, liquidity migrates, token incentives spike, and rival layer-ones will bribe MetaMask engineers for weekend support.
If it crumbles, armchair auditors will tweet threads about rushed code and side quests until the firmware update drops. Either way, the wallet hit its third cameo, so the keyword police can relax while users decide whether swapping through a browser extension beats waiting an hour on a bridge. Under the hood, the integration relies on the network’s Nitro upgrade, aligning RPC endpoints with familiar tooling and letting hardhat scripts deploy without rewriting configs.
That smoothness matters when every hackathon kid copies boilerplate repos hunting the next yield farm. Support channels are bracing for a flood of ‘why are my txs pending’ posts, but engineers insist finality will hover under half a second even during the rush. If the claim sticks, bridges may see a traffic slump as users simply tap, swap, and move on.
Meanwhile, analytics desks will dissect on-chain flows to gauge whether fresh capital stays put or round-trips to Ethereum for memecoin roulette. Either way, metrics will scream within hours, leaving no room for marketing spin. Detractors of monolithic architectures may sneer, but if gas stays low during crunch time, the silence will be louder than any press release.
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