Itay Malinger

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Itay Malinger

@ItayMalinger

Building the infrastructure edge for global markets | Co-founder | Prev: PayPal & Curv

Katılım Ağustos 2025

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·31 Ara

1/ When this photo was taken in 2021, @danyadlin and I had just sold Curv to @PayPal, and Michael was taking @FireblocksHQ through a phase of hypergrowth. While the tech implementation differed, both our companies were fundamentally solving for the biggest issue in crypto at that time - security, scalability, and a much more efficient operational workflow that would enable the seamless movement of crypto & digital assets to happen 24/7.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·17 Şub

Web3 products often treat users like engineers. Here is your gas estimate. Here are 10 pop-ups to make you connect your wallet. Here are 5 things you need to sign before you continue. Good luck. The best products treat users like guests. Everything they need is already prepared. We’re building for a future where using Web3 products is inviting, not discouraging.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·16 Şub

Complexity should live in the system, not in the interface. Every technical detail exposed to users is a confession: we could not figure out how to handle this ourselves.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·13 Şub

Most products add features. Great products subtract decisions. Every fork in the road is a moment where users might turn back. How many unnecessary forks does your product have? Something to think about.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·12 Şub

The next billion users will not know they are using blockchain. Just like they do not know they are using TCP/IP. Infrastructure wins when it becomes invisible. We are not there yet, but closer than most realize.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·11 Şub

A random thought that just crossed my mind: the undo button is underrated. When users can reverse any action, they explore with confidence. When they cannot, they hesitate at every step. Fear is friction. Reversibility is freedom. What other designs do you think are underrated? Keen to hear thoughts.

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Ofir Zohar@zohar_ofir·10 Şub

It’s hard to predict exactly how AI will evolve. But one thing is clear: it will be everywhere. In an AI-driven world, blockchains matter for far more than cheaper or faster settlement. They make information use and transactions transparent, verifiable, and rule-based. Without that, we risk a digital world dominated by a few centralized operators, each gaming the system. Blockchains can radically change how the value created by AI is distributed between users and operators. So you tell me: What’s the fair outcome? What’s the right outcome?

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·10 Şub

@Adv_Elite94 Web3 UX needs to get to the point where users stop realizing they’re using crypto.

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Elite94@Adv_Elite94·2 Şub

GM We will go hard this week cause we touched wild grass yesterday. 🤣 Btw, I was thinking about all of your experience around Web3 and dApps. Means as a newbie if you use apps recently you are using it that feels complicated to navigate? I all mean About UX / UI of your apps are those really simple for anyone to use? 🤨

Elite94@Adv_Elite94

GM Happy Sunday As for the condition of the market and airdrops these days there's something you need from your favourite DeFi 👀 If any DeFi accepts this from me to reward their users on their usage there will be good for both hehe. I was just thinking bro there's no one going to take it seriously so you know any better AI DeFi yet? That gives peace of mind while we put our bags part in. ( Not possible in crypto side but with AI you know. Note : Don't forget to touch grass.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·10 Şub

@Manny_Medici A big fan of simplifying wallet connections. I think about it from the perspective of a new user. Seeing your wallet pop up, having to sign multiple transactions… the list goes on. It’s added friction, and quite overwhelming.

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BatManny 🦇@BatMannyXBT·9 Şub

5 Ways we can Improve Web3 UX: - Simplify wallet connections. - Use clear transaction previews. - Add progress indicators. - Incorporate error handling. - Test on multiple chains. I'd do a proper breakdown of this later tonight

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·10 Şub

@Pulkit05_ Once Web3 doesn’t "feel" like Web3, we’ve won.

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Pulkit@Pulkit05_·10 Şub

Web3 wallets don’t need to feel like rocket science if we want everyone onboarded, the UX has to feel invisible, period.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·10 Şub

@0xnesyA Spot on. I think the current UX of a lot of dApps make people think and second guess too much. The experience should just guide the user, without any friction.

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Nesya@0xnesyA·10 Şub

web3’s biggest mistake is assuming everyone understands crypto. adoption doesn’t start with ideology, it starts with ux. specie simplifies complex processes instead of educating users, it adapts to them

Specie@speciefinance

One of the most important parts of building @speciefinance is designing for non-crypto natives. 70%+ of our users have never touched stablecoins. They’re the future of money movement, but the workflow has to meet users where they are.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·7 Şub

What’s one Web3 or crypto application you’ve used that ‘just works’? I’ve been seeing a lot of praise for applications like @HyperliquidX and @Polymarket - curious to see what else people are impressed by.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·4 Şub

Altcoins will make a comeback this year, according to @OneMorePeter at yesterday's panel session at @OndoFinance Summit. Discuss.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·3 Şub

@daKriptologist Curious how they're discovering new systems and platforms without reading the docs.

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Kriptologist@daKriptologist·2 Şub

@ItayMalinger i dont think many users are reading the docs

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·2 Şub

A useful test I keep coming back to: If you removed all tooltips and docs, would the product still make sense? If not, something’s off.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·3 Şub

@ustyianskyi Can you share what your usual flow looks like when building and interacting with a new system?

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Nazar@ustyianskyi·2 Şub

@ItayMalinger I have never read docs at first

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·2 Şub

@ZeusRWA And that's how we know that tradfi and defi have converged. It's no longer "the future". It's NOW. We're living it.

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Zeus 🇬🇧@ZeusRWA·2 Şub

Banks don’t hire quietly when something is a fad. Over the last 6–12 months, every major bank has been stacking digital asset hires, heads of crypto, tokenization leads, onchain strategy, compliance, custody, payments. This is operational buildout. They’re doing it because they know how the next version of finance is going to be run.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·2 Şub

And that's how we know that tradfi and defi have converged. It's no longer "the future". It's NOW. We're living it.

Zeus 🇬🇧@ZeusRWA

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·2 Şub

@0xNairolf Crypto tech as we know it has hit a wall though. We need a breakthrough for it to become mainstream.

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nairolf@0xNairolf·2 Şub

i dont know who needs to hear this but crypto will win and is already winning on many fronts: - payments - stablecoins - DeFi - tokenization it is not the time to leave

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·1 Şub

@Miraletofdefi What are some products that you've seen do this well?

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MARIAM ✨@Miraletofdefi·30 Oca

@ItayMalinger The product that guide the people to the right outcome without difficulty. We don't see that often.

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Itay Malinger@ItayMalinger·30 Oca

The hardest part of building products isn’t adding functionality. It’s deciding what the user should never have to think about. Every choice you expose creates friction, and every default you set creates momentum. The products that scale aren’t the most flexible ones, but the ones that quietly guide people toward the right outcome without asking them to do it. That kind of simplicity isn’t accidental, it’s designed.

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@Adv_Elite94 @Manny_Medici @Pulkit05_ @0xnesyA @HyperliquidX @Polymarket @OneMorePeter @OndoFinance