METAMASK

DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS

"Dan Finlay is a decentralized web developer at ConsenSys working on MetaMask as the lead developer, with a background in comedy, writing, and teaching."

"No, I didn't post a solana coin this morning. Do you people seriously act off unverifiable screenshots?"

"That's a fake screenshot. Check your sources."

MetaMask posted on X: “This morning, our co-founder Dan Finlay's Farcaster account was compromised and used to promote a memecoin. We are in touch with the Farcaster team to help investigate the incident."

"This morning, our co-founder Dan Finlay's Farcaster account was compromised and used to promote a memecoin. We are in touch with the Farcaster team to help investigate the incident. Bad actors want to take advantage of your FOMO - please verify anything and everything, and don't take action because of that FOMO."

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Dan Finlay is a decentralized web developer and the lead developer of MetaMask at ConsenSys, with a diverse background in comedy, writing, and teaching. Recently, a controversy arose when his Farcaster account was compromised, leading to the promotion of a fake token, $FINN, which was initially believed to be linked to him. Finlay denied any involvement, stating the screenshot circulating was false. MetaMask publicly acknowledged the incident, however no assistance has been available for anyone affected. Months later in March, Dan Finlay describes launching a (presumably different) test memecoin on pump.fun, then quickly abandoned it.

@evilcos Twitter (Mar 11)
What is Farcaster? A Beginner's Guide (2024) (Mar 11)
4chanintern - "@danfinlay you made FINN coin on pumpfun or hacked ?" - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
fatedotsol - "You should check your warpcast account @danfinlay it's probably hacked and they are launching pumpfun tokens. but if it's you pls confirm here so we can ape thx." - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
GonzoApe - "$finn MM "test token"" - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
hawaiianft - "@danfinlay were you hacked or did you really launch another memecoin?" - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
Reko Trades - "Co founder of metamask just made a memecoin,Don't know it's legit or not,insiders and snipers holding alot of supply" - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
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MetaMask - "That's a fake screenshot. Check your sources." - Twitter/X (Mar 11)
MetaMask - "This morning, our co-founder Dan Finlay's Farcaster account was compromised and used to promote a memecoin. We are in touch with the Farcaster team to help investigate the incident. Bad actors want to take advantage of your FOMO - plea...ter/X (Mar 11)
Dan Finlay - "No, I didn't post a solana coin this morning. Do you people seriously act off unverifiable screenshots?" - Twitter/X DM (Mar 11)
Who is Dan Finlay? - CoinMarketCap (Mar 11)
Dan Finlay - Medium PRofile (Mar 11)
Insightful Lessons Learned From Dan Finlay's Memecoin Experiment - Mindplex (Mar 11)
Dan Finlay explains how MetaMask will become the Google of Web 3 - YouTube (Mar 11)
Fireside short with Dan Finlay and Aaron Davis (short version) - YouTube (Mar 11)
Dan Finlay - Twitter/X Profile (Mar 11)

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