Facebook, purely from a business perspective, is an amazing example of how we’ll onboard the next billion users; just build UX that’s easy enough for your grandpa to use

I have a friend who’s been sending money to his parents for the last 15 years over Western Union, this man could’ve bought a house with the money he spent on fees. Every time I do a transaction on Tron or Polygon or any other insanely cheap chain I send him a screenshot to convince him to switch to the dark side.

But I haven’t been able to, for one major issue: his dad cannot handle a Trust Wallet, yet alone a MetaMask account. How are you going to explain to your 74-year-old dad that he needs to change his RPC settings cause you sent him money on the wrong chain? It’s not easy, and it’s not nice, but yet it’s so much tempting, why not make a product that’s easy on the eyes as it is on the wallet?

I’ve seen Facebook’s user base explode as their UI/UX got simpler. Early adopters weren’t too happy with it, but the early adopters would be selfish to destroy the future of the service for the benefit of their own coziness. When someone tells you the current dApps are as fine as they could be, don’t take the BS and keep demanding better products, that’s how you get more people into the space, that’s how you generationally secure the bag.

I would be a liar however if I didn’t give credit where it’s due, there are teams that are working tirelessly to make crypto and DeFi as a whole look as easy as your bank account. The team at Fluid Finance is trying to simulate a seamless banking experience for the average crypto user, while one of the teams at Polygon is looking to solve crypto’s UX woes in collaboration with Cope, an amazing deep-tech studio. And as much as I hate to say it, I have to thank the team at Robinhood for making a lot of people in the US get into crypto easily.

The future looks bright, but only if we keep tirelessly exercising our right to demand better. Projects are getting 10-million-dollar funding by the pop, and their teams should code like 10 million dollars.