MetaMask has no confirmed token. Consensys CEO Joe Lubin said on September 19, 2025 that a MASK token was coming. MetaMask's own Rewards help page now says there are no plans for $MASK, and on September 30, 2026 Lubin said there are no immediate plans. We moved this entry from confirmed to speculative.
Correction, October 7, 2026 The earlier version of this page kept the status at confirmed and said Rewards Season 2 was running. MetaMask's help page says Season 1 has ended with no concrete plans for another season, and that it has no plans for a MASK token. We changed the status and removed the Season 2 claim, along with unsourced claims about token transferability and claim geography.
Where it stands
MetaMask's statements about the token have moved in one direction over a year.
| Date | Source | What it said |
|---|---|---|
| Sept 19, 2025 | Lubin, The Block podcast | The MASK token is coming and may arrive sooner than expected. |
| Oct 2025 | MetaMask, via The Block | Rewards Season 1 would distribute over $30 million in LINEA and have meaningful ties to the future token. |
| Jan 23, 2026 | MetaMask Rewards | Season 1 ended. |
| Aug 2026, unchanged Oct 7 | MetaMask help page | Rewards is not MASK. There are no plans for $MASK and no concrete plans for another season. |
| Sept 9, 2026 | Consensys | The company splits in two. The announcement does not mention a token. |
| Sept 30, 2026 | Lubin, Korea Blockchain Week (reported) | Evaluating several viable pathways. No immediate plans to launch MASK. |
The 2025 promise was specific. Lubin told The Block's podcast that "The MASK token is coming," and tied it to decentralizing parts of the wallet. In October 2025 MetaMask said Rewards would have meaningful connections to the future token. The current help page says Rewards is not the same thing as MASK and that there are no plans for $MASK at this time.
The help page also says Season 1 has ended and there are no concrete plans for future seasons. Rewards now runs as separate campaigns, each with its own rules and prizes, and users opt in to each one. Whether past campaign participation counts later is left open.
On September 9, Consensys announced that it will split into two companies by the end of 2026. The existing company becomes MetaMask, a consumer platform with Lubin as chairman and CEO, and Linea moves to a new Consensys. CoinDesk reported that MetaMask is expanding into payments, savings and investing, and recently launched a Money Account built around its mUSD stablecoin. KuCoin News and ChainCatcher reported Lubin's Korea Blockchain Week remarks on September 30. We found no transcript or video of them.
What it means for Rewards farming
Season 1 paid LINEA, not MASK. MetaMask lists swaps, perps trading, prediction markets and card spending as ways to earn points. Nothing it has published ties any of them to a token.
MetaMask Swaps adds a 0.875 percent fee on top of network gas. On a $1,000 swap that is $8.75. The fee costs nothing extra on trades a user would route through the wallet anyway. Volume added only for points is a fee paid toward a token that MetaMask says it has no plans for.
The decision rule from our farming guide still holds. Multiply organic monthly swap volume by the fee premium over the usual venue, and compare the result with a prize that has no published size. For users who already live in the wallet, that cost rounds to zero.
Risks and open questions
The wallet's brand makes it a phishing target. MetaMask says it has no plans for the token, so any MASK claim page, snapshot checker or support message is fake by construction. No claim exists anywhere, inside or outside the product.
The open question is whether the split changes the odds. The announcement says nothing about tokens, and Lubin describes the path as under evaluation. We have no evidence either way. We label the entry speculative because the only on-record commitment, from September 2025, has since been softened by MetaMask's own help page and by Lubin's September 30 comments. If MetaMask restates a plan, the status moves back. OpenSea's SEA delay is the nearest comparison, a confirmed token that still has no date.
What to watch:
- Any change to the Rewards help page.
- The Consensys split, due by the end of 2026.
- A campaign that names a token reward.
How to position yourself
- Treat MetaMask Rewards as a campaign program, not a token qualifier. Join only campaigns whose stated rewards you want, because MetaMask says past campaign participation may or may not count later.
- Route trades through MetaMask Swaps only if the 0.875 percent fee suits you anyway. Do not add volume to chase points.
- Earn points only from activity you already do, such as swaps, perps trading or card spending. MetaMask lists these as ways to earn points but ties none of them to a token.
- Ignore any site offering a MASK claim, snapshot or eligibility check. MetaMask says it has no plans for the token, so no legitimate claim page can exist.
Reality check None of these steps guarantee an allocation. Teams change criteria late, add anti-sybil filters, and sometimes never ship a token. Only spend time and gas you are fine writing off.
