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No one expected MetaMask's userbase to grow from 300k to over 30 million during this last bull run. It was an incredibly optimistic time filled with boundless creativity but it was also a chaotic time that led to many having a negative experience with web3.
With the market cooling and the merge complete, let's look at how the early choices at the protocol layer shaped the user experience today and identify what's worth changing for the user experience tomorrow.
Speaker(s): Taylor Monahan
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Track: UX & Design
Keywords: wallet,user experience,web3
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A
A
For
those
that
don't
know,
I'm
Taylor
Monahan
I'm
going
to
be
talking
about
the
original
sin,
basically,
some
of
our
early
choices
and
how
they've
shaped
this
ecosystem
and,
more
importantly,
how
can
we
make
better
choices
so
that
the
world
is
better
tomorrow?
A
little
bit
about
me
again?
My
name
is
Taylor
Monahan
I've
been
in
the
space
since
2013.
I
got
in
right
before
the
mount
gox
crash,
I've
been
building
wallets.
Since
2015.
I
started
my
ether
wallet.
A
A
So
I
have
a
four-year-old
now-
and
this
is
one
of
our
favorite
books-
and
it's
like
quite
ironic,
because
it's
basically
the
Story
of
My
Life
when
I
first
started
out
I
was
just
building.
I
was
building
something
amazing
and
I.
Think
a
lot
of
you
here
are
probably
in
the
same
boat,
right
you're.
In
the
early
days,
you're
in
the
early
stages,
you're
building
something
inspirational
right,
that's
going
to
change
the
world.
It's
going
to
make
people's
lives
better.
A
It's
going
to
make
Society
better
and
I
hope
that
you're
really
proud
of
what
you're
building
right.
Like
you,
you,
you
create
something.
You
brought
something
new
into
this
world,
and
this
space
specifically
is
like
truly
remarkable.
It
is
next
level
in
terms
of
like
what
we
are
actually
doing
and
the
impact
that
our
products
can
have.
A
A
The
second
that
everything
starts
to
line
up
and
you
feel
like
you
might
have
a
grasp
on
it.
It
really
does
seem
that
then
out
of
nowhere,
everything
keeps
crashing
crashing
down,
because
building
shift
is
really
really
hard
and
especially
when
you're
a
wallet-
and
you
know
you're
the
product
that
people
are
are
using
to
access
and
manage
all
of
their
digital
assets.
A
It
also
means
that
sometimes
you
have
to
face
the
reality
that
our
world
is
one
where,
like
this
is
money.
This
is
people's
livelihoods.
This
is
their
financial
well-beings.
This
is
their
families,
their
mortgages,
their
children's
colleges
and
this
ecosystem.
Specifically,
the
entire
ecosystem
from
the
get-go
has
really
been
built.
A
On
top
of
these
public-private
key
pairs,
like
every
single
thing
that
we
do
traces
back
to
the
private
key
and
that
private
key
is
just
like
a
single
string
of
characters
and
it's
so
important
that
I've
spent
countless
hours
trying
to
educate
people
about
the
importance
of
this
private
key
I
worked
with
metamask
years
ago
to
rename
it
now.
We
call
it
a
secret
recovery
phrase
so
that
we
can
like,
hopefully
have
people
understand
the
importance
of
it
and
the
secretness
of
it
earlier.
A
But
the
reality
is
like
the
products
that
I've
built
are
responsible
for
a
lot
of
money
getting
lost,
and
if
we
don't
get
significantly
better
and
make
web
3
significantly
easier
to
access
in
the
coming
years,
it
means
that
the
products
I
build
and
we
build
are
going
to
be
responsible
for
billions,
more
dollars
lost
and
that's
like
a
hard
thing
to
wrap
your
brain
around.
It's
not
super
Pleasant
I
would
say
it's
pretty
up
and
it's
been
pretty
for
a
while.
Actually,
this
is
a
comment
I
made
in
2018..
A
One
of
the
earliest
mistakes
I
ever
made
was
when
we
created
my
ether
wallet.
We
didn't
really
understand
why
you
shouldn't
let
people
enter
their
private
keys
in
the
browser
on
a
website,
and
so
we
did
exactly
that.
You
would
generate
your
private
key.
You
would
enter
it
on
the
website
and
that's
how
you
access
all
of
your
money.
A
That
was
a
terrible
idea.
Don't
do
that
seriously?
Don't
do
that.
This
is
this
is
Dan.
Dan
is
one
of
the
founders
of
metamask
and
he
has
a
bit
more
optimistic.
Take
right
the
way
he
kind
of
looks
at
the
world
around
us
and
the
things
that
we're
building
is
he
phrases
at
us
we're
basically
at
the
eating
poisonous
mushrooms
phase
of
product
development,
and
we
are
all
just
leaping
we're
taking
the
leap
of
faith.
A
We
are
creating
entire
new
systems,
we're
creating
new
tech
systems,
recruiting
new
social
systems,
Financial
systems.
Everything
is
brand
new.
Unfortunately,
sometimes
these
new
paradigms,
just
you
know
they
come
with
some
struggles
and
I.
Think
one
thing
that
it
took
me
years
to
really
comprehend
and
really
grock
was
the
fact
that
there
is
such
a
huge
incentive
for
Bad
actors
to
get
your
private
key
to
get
your
secret
recovery
phrase
like
it
is
so
huge
that
I
don't
know.
Hundreds
of
thousands
of
like
random
scammers
around
the
world.
A
A
There's
almost
nothing
in
the
traditional
world
where,
if
you
lose
it
like
that's
game
over
and
there's
no
like
path
to
recourse
like
that,
doesn't
exist,
we
have
so
many
layers
to
protect
people
and
in
crypto
we
just
don't
have
those
yet
and
the
hardest
thing
about.
This
is
the
reality
that
truly
people
don't
understand
that
this,
like
this
string
of
characters,
these
like
random
numbers
and
letters,
or
these
words
like
if
they
lose
that
or
if
it's
stolen.
A
It's
game
over
and
increasingly
especially
with
this
last
Bull
Run,
it's
not
just
their
eth
right,
it's
their
tokens,
it's
their
nfts,
it's
their
Collectibles.
It's
their
soul,
bound
tokens,
it's
access
to
communities
and
games.
It's
it's
everything
right!
It's
like
basically,
turning
into
their
identity,
like
we're
getting
dangerously
close
to.
Turning
that
key,
that
that
that
string
character
is
that
nobody
really
understands
into
people's
identity
and
I.
Think
that
we
think
a
lot
about
education.
We
think
a
lot
about
ux.
We
think
a
lot
about
the
UI.
A
We
think
a
lot
about
the
things
that
we
can
do
to
fix.
It
I've,
given
probably
like
15
talks
covering
how
you
should
educate
people
more
and
fix
your
uis,
and
it's
had
some
impact,
but
not
enough,
and
the
thing
is,
is
that
the
people
in
this
ecosystem
are
creating
real
value
and
they're,
creating
it
so
quickly
that
I'm
not
sure
that,
just
like
you
know,
updating
some
copy
is
going
to
cut
it
because,
again,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
the
whole
entire
ecosystem
is
relying
on
these
freaking
characters.
Right
this.
A
A
A
We
talk
about
Game
Theory.
We
talk
about
incentives.
We
talk
about
the
economics
we
talk
about
so
many
different
things,
and
yet
somehow
we
haven't
really
been
able
to
come
to
the
conclusion
that,
like
maybe
we
should
focus
for
a
second
on.
How
do
we
actually
improve
users
lives
on
the
whole,
at
the
core
protocol
layer
right
we're
like
solving
scalability
resolving.
We
have
thousands
of
VIPs
that
are
solving
every
single
thing.
A
A
A
A
It's
punishing
those
people,
because
when
something
happens
which
it
will
they
are
the
ones
who
have
to
spend
the
most
amount
of
time
and
the
most
amount
of
real
money
to
move
their
assets.
And
frankly,
it
should
not
be
like
this,
because
we
can
do
better,
because
this
entire
ecosystem
builds
magical
all
day.
Every
day
we
literally
create
billions
of
dollars
out
of
thin
air
like
nothing.
A
A
We
need
to
understand
collectively
whether
you're
building
wallets,
whether
you're
building
smart,
wallets,
dumb,
wallets,
whether
you're
building
jobs,
whatever
you're
doing
whatever
layer
you're
stuck
you're
in
we
are
responsible
for
what
we
create
we're
responsible
for
how
that
impacts.
People's
lives.
A
A
A
Social
problems
we're
trying
to
improve
how
people
can
coordinate
with
one
another
we're
trying
to
allow
people
to
take
control
over
their
lives
and
their
futures
and
not
be
restricted
by
some
government,
some
State
some
Corporation,
and
in
order
to
do
that,
like
we
really
need
to
Value
people,
and
we
should
be
putting
people
and
the
problems
that
people
are
are
encountering
every
single
day
sort
of
front
and
center
like
what
are
we
doing
to
fix
that
and
our
products
are
a
mechanism
that
we
use.
The
technology
is,
is
the
tool,
but
the
choices.
A
Those
are
ours
and
those
have
to
be
about
people,
and
they
cannot
shy
away
from
the
hard
things.
This
book
is
really
real,
guys,
I
highly
recommend
it
all
right
so
new
paradigms.
This
is
a
new
world.
We
are
actually
successfully
creating
a
new
world.
We
have
successfully
onwarded
a
remarkable
millions
and
millions
and
millions
of
millions
of
people
into
this
new
world.
We
have
successfully
just
intermediated
a
ton
of
things
we've
given
people
control
full
control,
where
nothing
can
stop
them.
A
What
we
need
to
be
heading
towards
is
saying
that
this
stuff,
this
key,
this
whatever
you
want
to
call
it
right,
whatever
it
turns
into
tangibly.
This
is
mine
right
when
we
talk
about
identity.
When
we
talk
about
our
things,
it's
mine,
what
we
should
be
striving
for
is
it
cannot
be
hacked
or
stolen,
because
it's
mine,
I
have
full
control
over
it.
I
can
use
it.
I
can
access
it.
A
A
Because,
ultimately,
we
all
need
to
choose
how
we
interact
with
the
world
and
also
how
we
impact
the
world,
because
it's
our
choices
that
shape
this
world
every
single
choice
that
we
make
so
they're.
Sorry
there
are,
there
are
a
couple
eips
out
there
that
are
trying
to
tackle
this
problem.
I
am
not
going
to
say,
which
one
is
best.
I
think
that
the
solution
is
probably
not
one
of
these.
It's
probably
a
few
more
conversations,
some
online
debates
and
whatever
evolves
from
that
I
trust,
the
big
brains
to
figure
it
out.
A
A
A
Then
you
have
3074.
This
is
the
one
that
if
you
have
an
account
right,
you
have
a
private
key
right.
Now
you
can
delegate
control,
that's
like
sort
of
one
half
of
it
right
like
when
we
talk
about
key
rotation
or
key,
revocation
or
key
recovery.
It's
you
know
you
have
to
like
assign
that
Authority
somewhere
else
and
then
the
original
thing
you
want
to
like
revoke
The
Authority
3074
is
the
one
where
you
can
like
it's
the
rules
for
how
to
delegate
and
then
erp5003
is
a
new
one.
A
A
but,
most
importantly,
there's
a
lot
of
mechanisms
and
a
lot
of
things.
We
can
learn
from
all
the
history
and
all
the
research
that's
been
done.
The
conversations
that
have
happened
around
these
and
we
can
talk
and
discuss
and
put
our
big
brains
together
to
hopefully
come
up
with
a
really
strong,
powerful
solution
that
will
actually
serve
real
people
because
that's
the
goal
we
can
do
anything
we
want,
and
the
most
important
thing
that
we
do
is
continue
to
dream,
don't
be
limited
by
some
I.
A
A
All
right
I
also
have
to
show
some
stuff.
Okay.
So
for
those
that
don't
know,
I'm
at
venomous,
metamouse
is
part
of
consensus.
Consensus
has
a
ton
of
amazing
things
going
on.
One
of
them
is
Village
doll.
So
remember
I
was
talking
about,
like
you
know,
incentives
and
getting
people
working
together
and
collaborating
so
that,
like
everyone,
can
be
better
and
more
empowered
village.
Now
is
one
of
our
various
attempts
to
do
this.
It's
really
really
exciting,
whereas
is
villaged
out
in
the
house.
Make
some
noise
find
them.
A
They're,
freaking
cool,
they'll,
explain
everything
to
you.
It's
a
really!
It's
it's!
It's
such
a
cool
initiative
and
yeah
I'm
so
excited
okay.
Next
infuria,
you
know
that
evil
centralized
thing
that
the
whole
ecosystem
is
relying
on
and
it's
gonna
be
our
deaf
yeah.
No,
it's
well
on
its
way
to
being
decentralized.
We
could
not
be
more
excited.
Eg
and
the
team
have
been
working
on
this
for
God.
As
long
as
I've
known
him
and
I've
known
him
since,
like
2016.,
it's
been
crazy,
but
we
are
actually
making
moves
there.
A
That's
a
QR
code,
I,
don't
know
where
that
QR
code
goes
to,
but
I
assume
it'll,
give
you
more
information,
or
maybe
a
party
favor
I,
don't
know,
find
out,
isn't
Vera
in
the
house.
It's
Patrick
here!
Oh
okay,
okay,
they'll,
explain
to
you,
but
all
I
want
to
say
is
that
we
are
committed
to
building
a
decentralized
world
right.
We
really
are,
and
last
but
not
least,
wear
snaps.
A
A
A
And
then
I
tell
people
to
fix
it
and
then,
like
I
yell
at
metamask,
more
I
know
that
you've
all
been
in
this
boat
with
me.
Metamask
is
actually
the
solution
now,
because
we
can't
keep
making
metamask
bigger.
We
can't
keep
running
around
like
doing
whatever
Taylor
says
to
do
and
I
think
that's
not
scalable.
We
are
building
for
billions
of
people.
A
We
we
can
grow
our
team,
bigger
and
bigger
and
bigger,
and
we
still
won't
be
able
to
keep
up,
because
the
Innovation
that
is
happening
in
this
ecosystem
is
so
so
remarkable
and
that's
what
snaps
aims
to
do.
It
aims
to
give
everyone
the
builders,
the
smart,
big
brains
in
the
room,
the
power
to
make
metamask
work
better
for
you,
like
you,
heard
earlier,
there's
a
bunch
of
snaps
people
here.
A
B
A
C
C
Yes,
yeah,
for
example,
on
what
thing
can
we
back
the
user's
information
so
right
now
we
in
the
physical
world
we
back
up
with
the
people's
bodies.
I
know
that
person,
because
I
see
that
person
physically
beside
me,
so
I
will
need
something
something
based
on
the
physicality
of
the
person
or
something
like
a
second
like
a
second
degree.
Second
Factor
authentication,
but
then.
A
A
It
has
so
many
goals
at
this
point,
but
the
thing
that
I'm
most
focused
on
is
like
I
think
we
need
to
provide
a
migration
path
for
users
that
is
as
cheap
as
possible,
so
not
migrating
on
their
assets,
but
going
from
whatever
this
old
way
of
doing
things
to
the
new
way
of
doing
things
has
of
a
low
cost.
Secondly,
I
think
that
people
should
be
able
to
like
revoke
whether
that's
like
permissions
or
their
entire
key
or
whatever
it
may
be.
A
They
should
be
able
to
say
like
no,
that's
not
valid
anymore.
That's
not
me
anymore
and
then
I
think
that
obviously
there's
in
order
to
make
those
two
happen.
There
has
to
be
some
delegation,
some
permissioning
system,
something
where
because
like.
If
you
revoke
all
the
permissions,
then
you
don't
have
any.
You
can't
do
anything,
so
you
have
to
like
give
them
somewhere
else
and
there's
there's
a
ton
of
people
that
have
been
doing
a
ton
of
work
on
this
over
the
years.
The
ethereum
account
interaction.
A
Research
is
in
conversations
like
those
that's
one
thing,
but
if
you
look
at
decentralized
identity,
which
has
been
a
decades-long
effort
by
some
remarkable
organizations
around
the
world
that
really
focused
on
this,
that's
like
a
whole.
Another
rabbit
hole
that
you
can
go
down
and
I
will
not
pretend
to
think
that,
like
I,
I,
deeply
understand
the
this
design
space
as
much
as
I'm.