Crypto is EARLY. Painfully early. If you’ve ever used any of the types of applications I talk about in this newsletter then you know the user experience is usually terrible. If you make a careless error you might lose all your money. If you pick a token at random it’s more likely a scam or shitcoin than anything legitimate.

It is evident that the current consumer facing crypto business models do not work. Arguments can be made on several vectors to defend the lack of adoption of current consumer facing products: users are priced out, users are not crypto native, lack of security… the list goes on. While I do agree that these common arguments have some merit, I also... See more

Delivering real utility outside the crypto bubble means matching the user experience consumers and businesses already get from traditional solutions. And yes, that requires building a bridge between old and new rails—often through compromises that look downright irrational to crypto purists.