Asked my newbie crypto friend to swap 100 USDC from Polygon to Arbitrum.

45 minutes.

$23 in fees.

3 different wallets.

2 bridge failures.

1 very frustrated human who now thinks crypto is a scam.

He's not wrong.

Spent 5 years in this space as a marketer and recently a dev – building dapps. It is absolutely difficult to consume from a user experience point of view.

All the different chains, L2s add more confusment to the users. I even get stuck sometimes. Although there are projects that are trying to simplify the UX experience, we still need more to go.

Urgent changes needed:

1- Interop mass adoption

2- Intent based wallets – with AI

3- EVM to catch SOL on stock trading ( have you seen that yesterday? its crazy?

Huge shoutout to some teams actually tackling these problems in EVM:

Interop/Execution: Biconomy, LayerZero_Labs, xelarnetwork, chainlink

Intent-based UX: CowSwap, 1inch, IntentX, anoma

AI/Education: askgina_ai, rabbithole_gg, thirdweb, alchemy

But we need 100x more innovation in these areas.

What other projects are you bullish on for solving real UX problems?

I'm going ALL IN on teams that prioritize user experience over token pumps for the next 6 months. Because if we don't fix this, Web3 will remain a playground for degens instead of the financial revolution it was meant to be..