Metamask is the veritable Swiss army-knife of the Ethereum ecosystem, cementing its place as the most popular wallet interface in crypto in recent years. Despite this, the app still lacks some basic features including the ability to display Ethereum tokens (aka ERC-20 tokens) by default. For newer users in particular this is often cause for confusion - as evidenced by the amount of posts on r/ethereumnoobies regarding tokens the user fears they have lost. Given the frequency of such posts, I ...

Metamask is the veritable Swiss army-knife of the Ethereum ecosystem, cementing its place as the most popular wallet interface in crypto in recent years. Despite this, the app still lacks some basic features including the ability to display Ethereum tokens (aka ERC-20 tokens) by default. For newer users in particular this is often cause for confusion - as evidenced by the amount of posts on r/ethereumnoobies regarding tokens the user fears they have lost. Given the frequency of such posts, I ...