Web3 is THE place to be if you’re a frontend/UI/UX dev.
There are now hundreds of permissionless web3 protocols and smart contract backends just waiting to have amazing, user-friendly UIs built for them.
HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Svelte/Vue/React folks – what are y’all waiting for?!
Personal update: I've joined the team at
@ritualnet
!
Many of the core internet primitives we take for granted are open, decentralized, permissionless protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, Ethereum smart contracts and more.
I believe AI compute deserves to be among them.
For three years, I’ve been an indie dev on the side, bouncing from hackathon to hackathon, building and iterating on a universal web3 interface
@0xBlockhead
as a passion project with no obvious business model.
For once, it’s great not to be recognized for what hackathon sponsors
Just migrated the
@0xBlockhead
codebase from SvelteKit 1.0 to 2.0 in five seconds with just a single CLI command.
Packages bumped, functions renamed, logs justifying each step with links to relevant sections in their blog post!
The
@SvelteJS
developer experience is unmatched 🤯
My time as a frontend hedgineer at
@dYdX
as come to a close. 👨🏻💻🦔
Grateful to have contributed to the exchange's decentralization roadmap over the past two years as the team scaled from 19 to 40+ people!
Some highlights from the projects I worked on (+ shoutouts at the end!) 🧵
Wow
@puruvjdev
@Rich_Harris
, the new $confetti() rune in Svelte 5 looks pretty insane.
@SvelteJS
truly is the JavaScript framework most optimized for vibes 😎🎊
gm DeFi friends!
Excited to be building the website for
@HedgiesOfficial
, an NFT profile picture collection created by
@dYdXProtocol
and brought to life by the incredibly talented
@kajdax
and
@anna_paschenko
!
Just look at these adorable lil' leverage-trading spikeballs! 😍🙌🦔
For
@ETHGlobal
Scaling Ethereum 2024, I built an interactive explorer for
@ethsign
's attestation graph!
Accounts and Schemas are nodes, and each Attestation is a set of directed edges.
Stack:
•
@sigmajs
+ Graphology
• SvelteKit +
@SvelteJS
5 beta
• TypeScript
• vanilla CSS
EIP-6963 has been finalized!
Now you can install as many browser extension wallets as you want, and dapps will let you choose which one you want to use with perfect accuracy 🕵️
No more fighting to define window.ethereum 🤝
No more wallets disguising themselves as a fox 🦊🥸
@SvelteJS
5 is absolutely wild
Just write JavaScript
Sprinkle in a few $runes
Mutate variables, arrays & DEEPLY-NESTED OBJECT PROPERTIES
No hooks
No dependency arrays
No setter functions
No copy-spreading immutable data structures
Fine-grained reactivity that just works™️
pretty jazzed about this — not just the thing itself, which is absolute bliss to write code with, but also the fact that it's the result of feedback from early adopters poking holes in the Svelte 5 preview, which is exactly how OSS should work
i guess we're the deep $state now
Just applied to Optimism’s
@RetroPGF
Round 3 with my open-source project
@0xBlockhead
.
It’s a universal web3 interface I’ve been building over the last 3 years, including a portfolio tracker and block explorer for Ethereum and OP-Stack chains
@optimismFND
@BuildOnBase
@ourZORA
.
Have you done work which has increased the number of active users in the Optimism ecosystem?
If so, you could be eligible for some of the 30,000,000 OP being allocated in RetroPGF 3!
Sign up now (deadline to do so is October 23rd):
My second time as an
@ETHGlobal
hackathon finalist – unreal!
Shout out to
@janeyang0515
for the initial product direction and
@0xLJ_eth
from
@ethsign
for posing the challenge.
Expect to see more graph visualizations for web3 protocols coming to
@0xBlockhead
in the near future!
I’m co-hosting the /frontend channel on
@farcaster_xyz
along with
@sdv_eth
!
Come join a community of 10,000+ builders discussing the wonderful tools and technologies we use to render HTML, share data between servers and clients, and create awesome web-based apps and experiences!
New feature for channels on Warpcast
Co-hosts
- Add up to 25 co-hosts for your channel
- They have full permissions to boost, hide, edit and add/remove other co-hosts (including you; so make sure you trust them)
Today we are releasing , a browser-based REPL that allows developers to write ZK circuits in Javascript.
halo2-repl packages circuit generation and proving in a really easy-to-use way:
* abstracts away the hard details of using a ZK proving library:
@nadertheory
@desoprotocol
A big challenge in web3 is teaching users how new login paradigms work without overwhelming or misguiding them.
Pasting seed phrases is a misguided UX tradeoff that trains users to be prone to phishing attacks.
It’s trivial to replicate this popup in CSS—including the URL bar!
Looking for a fellow frontend dev to help me build buttery-smooth UI/UX for
@dYdX
, the
#1
decentralized crypto exchange 🦔
If you’re interested in web3/DeFi/NFTs, have strong HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills, and can model data & components with React/Svelte/TypeScript, let me know 👇
I’m Darryl, a front-end/UI/UX dev specializing in Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, browser standards and web3 infrastructure.
Follow me for curated tweets/lists on web3, crypto, DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and the future of finance, music, art, UX, social media and human coordination.
PSA: Don’t just refer to something as “web3” – disambiguate by mentioning a specific blockchain, protocol, tech stack, incentive system, use case or community.
The term is becoming increasingly overloaded and we’re starting to confuse people who aren’t familiar with the space.
Added the ability to query blocks, txs and smart contract source code via
@blockscoutcom
in
@0xBlockhead
.
Pleasantly surprised to see support for REST, GraphQL, Ethereum JSON-RPC AND
@etherscan
-compatible APIs in one place. Very handy.
Open-source Ethereum infra for the win. 🛠️
Just found out that in the last 18 months
@blockscoutcom
has grown to a 40+ team, refactored their entire codebase, AND kept their Open Source nature
They support 85 chains in a hosted version, but there are over 1000 live instances, run by other teams 🤯
Next time you hear
Excited to share that my project
@0xBlockhead
is live on
@Gitcoin
Grants Beta! 🎉
Lots of awesome initiatives here – web3 infra, open source software, ReFi, DeSci & more. Please consider donating 🙏
Every $1 sent through Gitcoin’s Quadratic Funding protocol makes a HUGE impact!
gm crypto/web3 frens ☀️
Blockhead is participating in the Gitcoin Grants Beta Rounds… and needs YOUR support!
Learn about some of the amazing web3 projects & public good initiatives Blockhead supports, and how YOU can contribute via
@Gitcoin
's new Quadratic Funding protocol 🧵
@dabit3
The
@ETHGlobal
team for consistently hosting amazing online hackathons and developer education events! ETHOnline 2020 in particular was the push that inspired me to drop out of my (expensive, boring) computer science degree and start applying my frontend skills to the web3 space.
Shoutout to
@BuidlGuidl
for setting up a dedicated
@Gitcoin
Grants round!
You can now support my project
@0xBlockhead
as well as dozens of awesome Ethereum builders during
#GG19
via OP Mainnet 👇
Good news,
@Gitcoin
Grants 19 contributors — you can now support Blockhead on OP Mainnet from now through December 6th!
Huge thanks to
@BuidlGuidl
for setting this up 🛠️
Add Blockhead to your cart here, and support some other builders while you’re at it:
“There’s this meme of the ‘Linux/Android curse’ — that openness is bad because it means there will be like twenty distros that have different standards and don’t talk to each other.”
“I think Ethereum as a community — we should declare WAR against this phenomenon and we should
@Cooopahtroopa
@jack
@cdixon
ALL web3 projects start out centralized. Bitcoin, Ethereum, crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, NFT collections, naming systems, oracle networks and DAOs are no exception.
GOOD web3 projects become decentralized over time by maintaining a community with well-aligned incentives.
@regannotraygan
Talking about or referring to something as “web3” without disambiguating the specific blockchain, use case, technology layer, incentive system or community.
The term is becoming increasingly overloaded and we’re thoroughly confusing people who aren’t familiar with the space.
@artnet
Needs disambiguation.
NFTs are a software pattern in smart contracts that ensures a piece of data is associated with one account at any given time. “NFT art” is a common use case of NFT technology.
The data associated with an NFT can be anything—not necessarily a digital image.
@layer3xyz
A DAO is a group of people from anywhere around the world using special computer networks to keep financial records, make complex decisions, pay for services, get paid for their work, organize money and things toward a project or cause, and make the world a better, fairer place!
Did I hear… smooth web apps?
Here’s the NFT minting experience I made for (
@HedgiesOfficial
) using CSS keyframes and the `transition` directive from
@SvelteJS
:
The real cypherpunks are building open-source public internet goods to last for generations to come with funding from
@BuidlGuidl
streams 🛠️
Building something, anon? Come join us!
🏰 BuidlGuidl is punk af 🧑🎤 👨🎤 👩🎤
🌎 we stream ETH to open source devs all over the world
⚙️ we do this fully onchain using custom smart contracts
🔥 in '23 we funded more than 150 builders!!!!
🧑🏫 and we aren’t just funding, we are also educating…
RIP. They're shutting the whole thing down in six months.
For a moment it seemed
@skiffprivacy
was shaping up to be a serious rival to the
@ProtonPrivacy
ecosystem.
Skiff is joining
@NotionHQ
🎉
We're excited to accelerate Skiff's mission by joining Notion. The world needs tools that empower people and put their interests first.
We're in a better position than ever to deliver this change.
Read more on👇
While you're waiting… feel free to right-click save this precious lil' baghodler and help cement its presence on the decentralized web. 🧢💰
If it doesn't get enough right-click saves, it might just curl into a ball and skitter away from its non-fungible habitat… forever 🥺💔
@seldo
Laurie, curious to know your thoughts on
@Gitcoin
’s efforts to bridge the gaps in open source software funding and other public goods through their quadratic funding mechanism.
Blockhead has been invited to participate in the “Ethereum Core Infrastructure, Research, and Development” quadratic funding round during
@Gitcoin
Grants 19! 🎉
Support Blockhead’s open-source portfolio tracking and explorer tools by donating $MATIC or $USDC on
@0xPolygon
PoS 💜
v4 Testnet is officially live 🚀🚀
Here are all the links you may need for easy access!
Public Testnet:
Testnet Status Page:
v4 Documentation:
Feedback and Block Explorer links👇
Blockhead is an open-source interface for web3 that lets you:
📊 track your crypto assets, DeFi positions and NFTs
📜 explore addresses, blocks, transactions and smart contracts from
@Optimism
and other EVM chains
🧭 browse decentralized apps and protocols like
@IPFS
,
At the
@Permissionless
II hackathon, I attempted to use
@FireblocksHQ
’s brand-new Non-Custodial Wallet (NCW) infrastructure to issue MPC wallets.
Here are code snippets from my (unfinished) implementation using SvelteKit (
@sveltejs
), EdgeDB (
@edgedatabase
) and tRPC (
@trpcio
)! 🧵
Eth Denver was great this year! We had a lot of amazing residents with
@wehack247
this year. I’m so glad to call you all my friends. So bullish on the future we are all building ❤️
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃
Grateful for the 364 people who vote-donated for my open-source project
@0xBlockhead
and the other Ethereum Infrastructure projects so far during
@Gitcoin
Grants 19 💝
Last weekend at
@ETHGlobal
Singapore, I teamed up with
@FlyingNobita
and
@permaintern
to build “Watering Hole”, a privacy-preserving matchmaking app using
@OasisProtocol
Sapphire’s trusted execution environment.
You answer a series of binary questions according to your
@dabit3
Web2 isn’t all bad—we now have lots of programming languages, libraries, hardware, cloud infrastructure and free communication channels to kickstart and advertise our web3 projects
Merry Christmas to all the web2 devs who got us to this point in spite of misaligned incentives 🙏
@seldo
@ratherironic
Good point, figuring out the right set of incentives to keep a project sustainable is a major problem the web3 community has yet to solve.
Have a look at what
@Radicle
and
@Gitcoin
are up to and let me know what you think.
v4 Testnet is officially live 🚀🚀
Here are all the links you may need for easy access!
Public Testnet:
Testnet Status Page:
v4 Documentation:
Feedback and Block Explorer links👇