theDesignIconoclast

I analyzed 6 epochs of @OctantApp data (Jan 2024-Jan 2025) to understand why 75% of stakers claim rewards instead of donating them - even with an 18x matching multiplier. Here's what the data actually shows.

@0xDipo Yes, love that you use “intent”. That’s what we’re missing right now: products with intent!

@theDesignMojo Now you finally see what I saw. We have to be intentional in building products in web3.

Web3 doesn’t have a marketing problem. It has a communication problem.

@0xDipo Totally agree. These products don’t solve anything valuable enough to get adopted.

@theDesignMojo I clearly got your point, but if you look at web3/crypto, you’d realize we’ve got arrays of products that either nobody asked for or no one actually uses.

@ViktorBunin Agreed. Without TradFi, there would be no DeFi to correct its worst features

With respect to Don, I don't think we should be holding up tradfi markets as paragons to emulate. They're even more extractive, except the extraction is gated and opaque rather than being permissionless and transparent on blockchains.

@rauchg From CLI to UI back to CLI. Designers, it’s time we invested a new paradigm.

1961: We should ship a CLI 2026: We should ship a CLI

@serpinxbt Not sure if following VC money has ever been an indication of anything

crypto VCs seem to be deploying more capital into pure gambling apps lately not sure what part of the cycle this is

@0xNairolf People hate complexity and uncertainty more than they love yield. Crypto’s issue at the core.

people love yield crypto can give instant yield on almost anything so???

@azeemk Ironically, it proves the tech is censorship resistant indeed

It’s honestly a miracle that ETH is successful in spite of the leadership. If anything, we should be grateful at how ineffective the EF is. Because if they were more effective, it would probably more negatively impact things.

@lou3ee Disagree. The lack of product thinking is still the main issue of the industry, not the tech or the hype around it. Products that normal people want to use.

hot take: if we had crypto creators 10 years ago we’d be fully mainstream

@Govindtwtt Not sure even frontend engineers can

AI sucks at frontend, it's so bad frontend engineers ain't losing their jobs any time soon no AI can do 1-1 match with figma design

@dberenzon Bold. Use cases are marginal but we will get there

I still believe in NFTs

@OctantApp Ooooh yeah!

We’re so ready for Cannes 🇫🇷💝

@eas_eth @BitsaveProtocol @base Nice, real use case!

Builder Highlight! @BitsaveProtocol has tokenized over 60+ real world businesses onchain across Africa. They attest to valid business registrations which enable the tokenized businesses to become a yield bearing asset on @base. Congrats on the progress!!

@SaulWgmi Maybe Web3 as it is needs to burn down. The utter disregard for end users has a price. Make unusable products? Fail. Make irrelevant products? Fail. We have the most advanced infrastructure but but the worst products. That’s the problem.

WARNING: Vitalik says if crypto keeps revolving around pure gambling with zero real-world use, the whole industry could burn out fast.

@StarknetEco Keeping the flame alive! Thanks

STRK is down 98% from its all-time high. and the devs on Starknet are shipping the most advanced privacy protocol in crypto, a provable programming language, and a prover that runs on your phone. right now. in this market. that tells you everything about who's here and why.

@OctantApp @ShutterNetwork Awesome! This yield-for-good proposition is fire

[BREAKING NEWS] Shutter DAO 0x36 @ShutterNetwork has deployed 1.2M USDC to Octant vaults for powering ecosystem growth (you'll want sound on for this one)

@sodofi_ @orishim Yes!! But pushing for more human centred design in crypto is like shouting in the void. Design is not meant to be at the end of the production line. It should be at the start, when one decides what to build…

big thanks to @orishim and the EF use case lab for pushing us to be human-centered product builders building for real people is how we ensure crypto isn't just a solution looking for a problem

today's design thinking workshop was one of my faves now that you can build anything with a few good prompts, the question is no longer about how to build, but rather what you should build design thinking is how you identify what problems are worth solving

@petergyang @figma It allowed me to bring consensus around a product direction when there was none. No tool did it well before then. Kudos.

Screw the haters, I am long @figma

@pmddomingos The damage is real though: how many jobs and contracts lost in anticipation of this « prediction »?

AI moves so fast. Barely a month and he’s already been sidelined.

@thejustinwelsh A definition of freedom

The most successful solopreneurs aren't scaling to $10M. They're simply making more than they did at their job, minus the boss, meetings, and headaches.