{"id":92239,"date":"2025-12-16T09:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92239"},"modified":"2025-12-16T18:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:22","slug":"metamask-introduces-bitcoin-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/metamask-introduces-bitcoin-support\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaMask Introduces Bitcoin Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a> wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-metamask\">MetaMask<\/a> has announced full integration of the first cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BITCOIN HAS ENTERED THE CHAT<\/p>\n<p>MetaMask now supports BTC. \ud83d\udfe0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S6ZdDStnct\">pic.twitter.com\/S6ZdDStnct<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MetaMask.eth \ud83e\udd8a (@MetaMask) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MetaMask\/status\/2000614577575428200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Developers first <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/metamask-to-introduce-direct-support-for-bitcoin-and-solana\">announced<\/a> plans to add Bitcoin in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Users can now perform all major operations with digital gold in the MetaMask interface: buying, exchanging for other coins, sending, and receiving. Previously, the asset was available to clients only through <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-wrapped-token\">wrapped<\/a> alternatives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-erc-20-tokens\">ERC-20<\/a> standard.<\/p>\n<p>The latest version of the wallet will initially support <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-segregated-witness\">SegWit<\/a> addresses. <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-taproot\">Taproot<\/a> will be added &#8220;soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Points are awarded for each exchange of the first cryptocurrency within MetaMask, the project team emphasized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cAny Bitcoin transactions will appear in your asset list after confirmation. Remember: transactions are usually slower than in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-ethereum-virtual-machine-evm\"><em>EVM<\/em><\/a><em> or Solana networks,\u201d the developers also warned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond Ethereum<\/h2>\n<p>MetaMask is steadily implementing a strategy to transform from a wallet for Ethereum and EVM blockchains into a multichain hub. The transformation began with the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/metamask-expands-to-support-solana\">integration of Solana<\/a> in May.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/metamask-integrates-parallelized-l1-network-sei\">support for Sei<\/a> was introduced, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/how-monad-works-an-ethereum-and-solana-rival-with-10000-tps\">Monad<\/a> in November. An expansion of the list of available networks is expected next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October, MetaMask <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/metamask-simplifies-multi-blockchain-address-management\">simplified<\/a> address management across multiple blockchains. Users gained the ability to manage addresses in different networks from a single account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the same month, the wallet <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/metamask-introduces-perpetual-contract-trading-via-hyperliquid\">launched<\/a> perpetual contract trading via <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/the-price-of-popularity-and-a-lesson-for-all-hyperliquid\">Hyperliquid<\/a> in the mobile app. Simultaneously, developers announced integration with the prediction platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polymarket\">Polymarket<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetaMask, the popular Web3 wallet, has announced full integration of the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"MetaMask announces full Bitcoin integration.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1287],"class_list":["post-92239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-metamask"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"192","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"MetaMask announces full Bitcoin integration.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92241,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92239\/revisions\/92241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}