Web3 · 2017–2020 · Acquired by Metallicus
Lynx Wallet
Founding designer of the consumer wallet that brought blockchain to humans.
Acquired by Metallicus, 2020 · ~4-year continuous arc
The case study is in progress.
This page is a stub while I write the full narrative. The short version:
A pre-pivot team-collaboration tool got buried by a saturated category. Three of us (myself, the lead developer, and the owner) spent a weekend brainstorming what a consumer-friendly crypto wallet could look like, because EOS's onboarding required you to know someone with an existing account just to create your own. We built Lynx Wallet: a non-custodial wallet that took crypto setup from twenty developer-friendly steps to three human-usable ones, with @-names instead of long hash addresses.
Thousands of downloads followed. YouTube tutorials sprung up: "How to use EOS = use Lynx." We solved a major dApp security problem by inventing a 2FA-style QR code transaction signing pattern. Keys never left the phone, transactions were signed via push notifications. Then we put the dApp browser inside the wallet itself, so decentralized apps could be discovered and used directly from a phone with on-device signing. Coinbase later adopted the same pattern.
Metallicus acquired the team in 2020 specifically for our ability to translate blockchain technology into consumer UX. I stayed on for the ~12-month integration.