Your Wallet Should Excite You 🤩
Do you remember the first time you used a web browser? The first time you created something on the Internet? The first time you used iPhone? The first time you downloaded an app? The first dapp?
I will never forget the magical moments I have had with technology:
🖥 Uploading my first index.html to a web server with the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) in 2001.
📱 Swiping a web page on iPhone 1 in 2007 using mobile networks and the Internet Protocol (IP).
📍 Downloading the first apps onto my iPhone 3Gs in 2008, including a location-based art game that allowed you to publish graffiti to a digital world.
🏦 My first profitable month for hoodeasy—my custom apparel company—was in 2009. Getting paid on the Internet changed my relationship with reality forever. I have been financially free from employment for over 15 years.
💻 Opening the MacBook Air—my first Apple Computer—in 2009 absolutely shook me to my core. I had been abused by Windows for so long.
💎 Learning how to write Ruby from Jim Weirich in 2010 changed the way I saw the world. Going from creating passive web sites to active web apps was the most empowering thing I ever did. He gave me the gift of creation.
🪙 Buying Bitcoin on Coinbase in 2013 gave me access to the BTC protocol.
🕋 Hearing about Ethereum in 2014 opened my mind to the idea that a blockchain can be used for more things than just sending a few coins.
🍏 Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in 2015 made me want to make a contribution to the ecosystem. Tom, the youngest developer there, and I met with Craig Federighi—AKA Hair Force One—who was so kind to us.
🚘 Taking my hand off the wheel of the Tesla in 2016 was a life-changing experience. At that moment, I felt the spirit of Elon Musk taking care of me.
💵 Connecting to my bank account with Plaid in 2016 felt like a huge step forward in financial technology infrastructure. I could read my Wells Fargo statements using the terminal of my MacBook!
🔌 Using WalletConnect in 2018 felt like a huge improvement in how dapps and mobile apps could interact. Pedro Gomes, the inventor of the system, used to work at Balance as our web engineer.
🤑 Taking a huge loan out using MakerDAO in 2019 saved me, financially. All I had left was my Ether. I used that to fund a gigantic Collateralised Debt Position and draw out $DAI to live my life.
📊 Seeing Decentralised Finance (DeFi) explode in 2020 was a true pleasure. We had been predicting it for years. But it was so gratifying to actually be there to witness it!
🔐 Using 1Password’s Safari iOS Extension on Tuesday September 28th, 2021 got me back into the wallet game. After ~5 years of wondering: how do you build a great mobile wallet for Ethereum? I finally had an answer: Extensions
I want my children to experience Ethereum’s magic
When will the kids today start experiencing the magic of Ethereum’s dapp ecosystem?
When it is affordable, accessible, and simple enough for them to get excited!
I am designing a wallet for the children of our future. I am designing to delight them and their parents. I am designing this magic with an incredible community of contributors. We are going to blow you all away in 2022.
Want to help create magic? 🪄
We are searching for help with engineering, designing, organising & testing.
