Product

There's still a wide gap between slick consumer crypto UX prototype and day-to-day practicality.

e.g. Passkeys — amazing when they work on the happy path, but plenty of instances where they don't sync, don't work cross platform

Optimistic that the underlying infrastructure will continue to improve in the next 12-18 months. Hopefully in apps and well-tested by the next cycle.

Related: the single biggest UX blocker for most consumer apps that are hoping to "onboard normies" in the upcoming cycle is fiat-to-crypto onramp.

In-app purchases work for small $ and targeted use cases, but getting $100 in a wallet that's deeply integrated with the apps driving the core onchain behaviors is the actual hard thing.

On-ramps require KYC, which is a huge source of drop-off. Why Coinbase has such a big advantage with 100M+ KYC'd accounts.

@base builder #001; onchain cities w/ OAK & city3

i gotta believe cb will figure out way to have kyc integrated into cb pay api and make it mobile friendly (with no need to download coinbase app separately), as a way to get more funds directly onto base without needing to open a cb account in another app first - cb wallet good place to start, expand to base consumer apps from there

cc @jessepollak 🙏