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Wallets like MetaMask need to become more user-friendly

Published 09/16/2022, 06:03 PM
Updated 09/18/2022, 08:40 PM
Wallets like MetaMask need to become more user-friendly

After Ethereum’s long-awaited Merge, it’s an ideal time to think about how we can also improve smart contracts. Essentially apps that run on blockchains, smart contracts are a vital component of our Web3 applications. But interacting with them remains quite dangerous, especially for non-developers. Many of the incidents where users lose their crypto assets are caused by buggy or malicious smart contracts.

As a Web3 app developer, this is a challenge I think about often, especially as waves of new users keep onboarding into various blockchain applications. To fully trust a smart contract, a consumer needs to know exactly what it’s going to do when they make a transaction — because unlike in the Web2 world, there’s no customer support hotline to call and recover funds if something goes wrong. But currently, it’s nearly impossible to know if a smart contract is safe or trustworthy.

Devin Abbott (@dvnabbott) is the founder of Deco, a startup acquired by Airbnb. He specializes in design and development tools, React and Web3 applications, most recently with The Graph.

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Why on GOD'S GREEN EARTH, Would Anyone want a Wallet. Asking for it to be Stolen; That's if the Company doesn't disappear W./ everything like has happened So many times recently/in the Past
Yeah, but What about when your Company Steals all your money like Celsius
MetaMask needs to be more secure
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