MetaMask is a well-known wallet from Ethereum, but it has multicadena capacity, which means that the new login function is activated. This optional function allows you to create, backup and restore cryptocurrency wallets using your Google or Apple account.
When using Gmail or Apple to create a wallet using social features, users must also provide a password to help open the session. Metamask makes it clear that seed phrases do not disappear through new methods, It is automatically generated in the background. You will only need an email and a previously configured password to access it.
That phrase recovery seed (SRP) is generated internally and can be recovered later using the same social account and password used to configure the wallet.
The data below, according to Metamk’s blog post,Loss of password Being associated with accounts created in a social way leads to a critical loss in the wallet. This is a strange decision taking into account that the loss of traditional seed phrases has the same consequences.
In this sense, Metamask appears to facilitate the management and process of wallet creation and recovery, but does not change the irreversibility of losing a key. Perhaps as a conscious measure of the company To avoid storing user passwords on non-local servers such as the cloudwith security issues. This storage method is practiced through services such as Ledger Recover, where market launches have been engulfed in criticism and controversy.
Metamuk clarifies the point of irreversible loss of credentials in the same post.
Even metamasks cannot access all the data needed to recover SRP. Therefore, the wallet cannot be maintained independent. In combination with a unique password, only social qualifications can unlock SRP on local devices.
Metamask brought many novelties to its ecosystem last month. In addition to the integration of Tron Network into wallets, Consensus MUSD has announced the native Metamask Stablin.