Wallets like MetaMask need to become more user-friendly

Most wallets look like they were created for developers. This becomes a bigger issue in terms of practicality and security as the adoption of cryptography increases.

After the long-awaited Ethereum merger, it's a great time to think about how we can improve smart contracts as well. Essentially applications that run on blockchains, smart contracts are an essential part of our Web3 applications. But interacting with them is still quite dangerous, especially for non-developers. Many incidents where users lose their crypto assets are caused by buggy or malicious smart contracts.

As a Web3 application developer, this is a challenge I often think about, especially as waves of new users continue to integrate into various blockchain applications. To fully trust a smart contract, a consumer must know exactly what they are going to do when making a transaction, because unlike the world of Web2, there is no hotline to call and recover funds in case of problems. not going well. But currently, it is almost impossible to know whether a smart contract is safe or trustworthy.

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One solution is to make wallets themselves smarter. For example, what if wallets could tell us if it's safe to interact with a smart contract? It's probably impossible to know with 100% certainty, but wallets could, at a minimum, aggregate and display many of the signals that developers are already looking for. This would make the process easier and safer, especially for non-developers.

Here's a deeper look at the pros and cons of smart contracts, why they now look like the Wild West, and how we could improve the UX for using them.

For developers, using a smart contract as a backend for their application has enormous potential. It also increases the potential for bugs and exploits. It's great that smart contracts can be created by developers without asking anyone's permission, but it can also put users at considerable risk. We now have apps trading hundreds of millions of dollars without any security guarantees. As things stand now, we just have to...