Crypto closed just 81 seed deals in H1 2026, down 88% from 2022, while fintech wrote bigger checks to a quarter fewer companies. What that reordering actually means if you're founding something in iGaming, Web3 or fintech.
In-chat AI checkout stalled in 2026 – Walmart measured it converting about three times worse than its own site. The payment rails are fine; what broke is the design of the moment money moves.
We designed a US sweepstakes casino, then found no standard for how the category should look. What I learned building the Sweeps style for Aduarius.
Brazil's regulated betting market hit ~US$7B in its first year. Here's why I built a dedicated Brazil visual style into Aduarius – reading a market as product.
I've briefed thousands of ad banners across iGaming and Web3, so I built Aduarius – an AI tool that turns a brief into on-brand creative in 8 seconds.
Kalshi is pulling ahead of Polymarket partly because it onboards like a brokerage, not a crypto app. A product breakdown of why the deposit screen, not the odds, is the moat in prediction markets right now.
The 2026 US crackdown on sweepstakes casinos doesn't just target operators – it names the payment processors, geolocation providers and designers who build them. I've shipped one of these platforms; here's what's changing and how to design for what's next.
The way I take a high-stakes iGaming or Web3 product from a one-line brief to a launched, on-brand product – and where most builds quietly go wrong.
In regulated, money-moving products, trust is a design material. Here's how I build it into Web3 and fintech UI – from the first screen to the moment money moves.
