MetaMask announces the new roadmap for 2025: new features coming

MetaMask, the famous non-custodial crypto-wallet, has shared its 2025 roadmap, announcing the new features on the way. Among the main goals, MetaMask aims to simplify and enhance the user experience of its wallet.

MetaMask: new features to improve UX and UI in the 2025 roadmap

MetaMask, the famous self-custodial crypto-wallet, has revealed the milestones of its 2025 roadmap, full of new features coming soon.

In first position, among the new features of the new MetaMask 2025 roadmap is the revision of the crypto-wallet user interface. The goal is to simplify and improve the user experience in MetaMask. 

To achieve this goal, MetaMask stated that it will make transactions smarter and simpler, abstracting from networks and gas. 

These are the “intelligent transactions” (or Smart Transactions) that had already been introduced by the crypto-wallet last May 2024. This update has implemented private transaction channels, which keep transaction details hidden from the public mempool until they are ready to be processed. MetaMask’s “intelligent transactions” combat the widespread problem of front-running on the Ethereum network. 

Not only that, to further improve the user experience, MetaMask has also introduced new features to eliminate transaction gas for its users. For example, with swaps with gas included, users can exchange two tokens without needing to have ETH in their account: the gas is included in the swap quote and is paid in the token being exchanged.

For the month of March, MetaMask plans to generalize this system to all transactions, allowing interaction with dapps or sending tokens, paying the gas in any token held.

MetaMask roadmap 2025: the new native support for Bitcoin and Solana

Other important features of the MetaMask 2025 roadmap will be the introduction of new native support for Bitcoin and Solana. Here is what the crypto-wallet for the Ethereum network writes in its announcement: 

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“Hello, Bitcoin. In the third quarter of this year, full support for bitcoin will arrive: users will no longer need a separate wallet or wrapped tokens to hold bitcoin. Solana is coming. In May, we will add native support for Solana to MetaMask, the first non-EVM chain to be supported immediately. All MetaMask users will be able to buy, sell, swap, and interact with the dapps of the entire Solana ecosystem. Existing Solana users will have access to the same security, reliability, and feature richness of MetaMask, in addition to access to all the chains used today with MetaMask.”

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In practice, MetaMask will fully support Bitcoin (BTC) starting from the third quarter of 2025. By doing so, users will no longer need to use other separate wallets or other tokens wrapped to BTC for their transactions. 

The support for the Solana ecosystem, on the other hand, will arrive in MetaMask starting from next May 2025. Solana is the first non-EVM chain to be embraced by the crypto-wallet. 

The news of MetaMask’s support for Bitcoin had already started circulating last May 2024. At that time, the rumors claimed that the crypto-wallet was working on the new access to BTC.

The MetaMask Card

Another feature to allow users to spend their crypto in the real world is the new MetaMask Card. 

In practice, last August 2024, MetaMask had entered into a partnership with the payment giant Mastercard, to launch the debit card initiative to spend crypto.

As of today, the MetaMask Card has been outlined to connect the self-custody crypto-wallet with millions of vendors worldwide that accept the Mastercard network. 

Not only that, with MetaMask Card, users can earn rewards or yields on their favorite protocol with their favorite tokens and have those funds available to spend anywhere Mastercard is accepted with a simple tap. 

The virtual card is available immediately in eligible countries, while the physical Metal card will be available in some selected territories in April 2025.