---
title: "Is metamask.io Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "metamask.io"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is metamask.io Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
trust_score: 90
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/metamask.io
assessed: 2026-08-13
---

# Is metamask.io legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 90/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 90/100.** metamask.io appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Safe for Login, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-13 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Marketing and product landing page for a widely-used cryptocurrency wallet offering buy/sell, swaps, margin/perps, tokenized assets, a money account with yield, a card product, and developer integrations. |

## Evidence status and limitations


Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN

- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.

## At a glance

The checks that decide most of this verdict.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archived (No public history of this site) | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


No screenshot is retained for this report.

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.

## Full analysis


### What this website is

a MetaMask-branded cryptocurrency wallet and financial-services platform presenting visitors with crypto purchases and sales, token swaps, perpetual trading, tokenized assets, a card, an interest-bearing money account, and developer integrations.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, malicious-reputation, or conflicting-identity indicators. The homepage presents a coherent wallet and exchange business model, including token swaps, perpetual positions with up to 50x leverage, prediction-market functionality, tokenized stocks and ETFs, a card, and an account offering earning features. These are legitimate-looking financial products but involve material market, counterparty, and loss exposure; the site’s apparent legitimacy should therefore remain distinct from the suitability or safety of any individual transaction. The homepage also showed no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet-drainer activity, clipboard hijacking, or suspicious inline script.


Evidence:
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2015-07-02 and an age of 11.12 years.
- The homepage identifies the MetaMask wallet product and describes buying, selling, swaps, perps, tokenized assets, prediction features, card services, and developer tools.
- Behavioral inspection recorded 0 wallet-connect runs, 0 wallet-sensitive runs, 0 wallet-drainer runs, 0 clipboard-write detections, and 0 hidden forms.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no blacklist hit and 0 abuse reports.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The registration record names ConsenSys Software Inc.; that record is a useful identity signal, not proof that the website is operated by that entity. The supplied homepage content does not display a licensing authority or license number, so licensing and jurisdictional permissions for the financial services described remain a transparency and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual support only and not a regulatory determination.


Evidence:
- The domain is registered through Cloudflare, Inc.; the registration record lists ConsenSys Software Inc. and an expiration date of 2027-07-02.
- The site is served through AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is issued by WE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-26.
- The homepage content contains no displayed license authority or license number.

### What to Verify Next

Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the legal entity responsible for the relevant service, the applicable licensing position in the user’s jurisdiction, the governing terms, and available payment-protection or recovery mechanisms. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on links or addresses presented on the site.


Evidence:
- The homepage provides product and support navigation but does not, in the supplied content, establish independently verified operator identity.
- The homepage describes financial services whose licensing and jurisdictional availability should be checked against the relevant official registry.
- The supplied page analysis found no sensitive forms, so identity and payment checks should be completed before moving from the landing page to account or transaction workflows.

### Summary Verdict

This is a **high-trust, low-risk website posture** supported by an established digital footprint, clean external reputation, coherent product content, and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The site is apparently legitimate and suitable for ordinary consideration, subject to the stated qualification that its real-world operator identity has not been independently verified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The website is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN and WAF, with traffic observed through Cloudflare edge infrastructure and a potential origin candidate. This architecture reduces direct exposure of the service infrastructure and is a mitigating security signal, but it is not independently proof of operator legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

Proceed with ordinary independent merchant-identity, licensing, terms, and payment-protection checks before submitting credentials or making payments; after those checks, interaction may be considered proportionate to the site’s established trust posture.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |

- No on-site identity signals detected

_Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence._

## What TrustSniffer observed

First-party facts recorded during the assessment of metamask.io.

- The request stayed on metamask.io. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under Cloudflare, Inc. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-02. (Noted)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Cloudflare, Inc |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a06:98c1:310d::6812:284b |
| Name servers | langston.ns.cloudflare.com, adelaide.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | 11.12 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-02 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about metamask.io at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.

TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/metamask.io) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/metamask.io · assessed 2026-08-13.*