MetaMask attracts users from all over the blockchain space — developers, token traders, first-time dapp users who don’t even know what Ethereum is, and everything in between.

It’s a wide range for a single product, and we’re amazed at the many use cases and insights that come from these different user personas.

We’ve long relied on qualitative feedback from support, Github and around the community to inform product development. But in early March, we rolled out an opt-in metrics system to provide some quantitative insight on how people are really using MetaMask.

Two months later, we can see trends and high-level volume that highlight the incredible amount of dapp activity and development happening across the ecosystem. We’re excited to share.

Overview

At the beginning of March, we asked all users if they were willing to allow their extension to report basic UI metrics. New users saw an additional screen during their onboarding flow, and existing users saw the same screen the next time they opened the extension.

From the time this metrics system launched in March, we’ve had 275k users opt-in and 104k users decide to opt-out. That means that the data shown here only reflect 72.6% of our user base.

The data reported below are either shown “As measured” or “Estimated actual.”

“ As measured ” is the raw number we recorded for the users who opted in.

” is the raw number we recorded for the users who opted in. “Estimated actual” is the projected total if all behavior were consistent across those users who opted out.

As a reminder, we’ll never collect keys, addresses, transaction details, account balances, full IP addresses, account nicknames, or any data from outside the extension. Users are free to opt-out from metrics with the click of a button (Settings –> Security & Privacy). And we’ll never sell your data for profit!

MAU, Growth, and Onboarding

In the past two months, we’ve seen 89k new wallets and 53k imported wallets.

Week-over-week new user growth for this time period is 1.1%, but doesn’t track a straight line: we’ve found that new user growth is often tied to ecosystem-wide events like the price of ETH, a good press cycle, or a trending game. Still, the overall trend continues to bend upwards.

Users complete the new wallet onboarding flow 79% of the time, which reflects what we know about the challenges of putting new users in control of their own keys. We’ll continue to iterate on onboarding UX without compromising the core tenets of security & privacy that we hold paramount.

April measured 192k MAU and 65k WAU, which we can adjust proportionally for the chunk of our userbase who did not opt-in to metrics: