How Dynamic Replaced a Full-Time Developer, Saving Defi App 40+ Hours a Week and the Cost of a Salary

Crypto has a Fragmentation Problem

Ask anyone who’s tried to use more than one DeFi protocol in a day: the crypto experience is still deeply fragmented. Each chain is its own island with siloed liquidity and users are forced to manage and switch between multiple wallets. It’s no wonder new users drop off before ever making their first transaction.

On top of this, onboarding remains one of the biggest pain points. Storing seed phrases is intimidating. Learning the crypto language presents a steep learning curve. Users are expected to understand bridges, gas fees, and private keys before they can even swap a token. This isn’t just a user problem. It creates a scalability problem.

Every confusing wallet flow, every technical term, every extra step creates drop-off. The result is a funnel that filters out the very audiences crypto needs to grow: casual users and newcomers. Until onboarding feels as intuitive as any Web2 app, crypto adoption will remain niche.
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Super-apps: Unifying the Crypto Experience

Super-apps have already reshaped consumer apps in the Web2 world. In Asia, WeChat bundles payments, messaging, commerce, and identity into a single experience. In the U.S., Cash App makes it easy to send money, buy stocks, or file taxes without ever switching apps. Crypto is ready for its super-app moment.

A crypto super-app unifies Defi offerings like swaps, perps, staking, governance, and lending into a unified platform. Rather than navigating multiple tabs and interfaces, users log in once and stay inside a single environment that has everything they need.

To build this kind of product, teams need infrastructure that makes complexity invisible while preserving decentralization. They need tools that let users log in via email or social, but still retain private key ownership. They need wallets that act like the traditional account experience. And they need to support multiple chains, without additional dev work. This is the foundation Defi App is building on.
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Meet Defi App: A Super-app Simplifying Crypto for Everyone

Defi App takes all the complicated parts of crypto and blends them into one easy, all-in-one experience. Their core philosophy? “Come as you are.” Whether you're a crypto native who already has a wallet or a newcomer who’s never touched a blockchain, Defi App lets you get started with ease in minutes.

Just sign up with an email or social account and you’ll see for yourself.

Instantly, you're issued secure embedded wallets on both Solana and EVM. From there, you can start trading, staking, and earning with no seed phrases, chain-switching, or friction. And while the experience feels like using a modern fintech app, everything under the hood remains fully decentralized. Users retain complete control of their wallets and keys, with the ability to export and self-custody at any time.

In the words of Dan Greer, the founder of Defi App:

“We’ve basically created an account experience that feels like a centralized exchange, but the user is still in control. That wouldn’t be possible without Dynamic.”

What Stood Between Defi App and the Super-app Vision

Building a crypto super-app sounds great in theory. But in practice, it produces a series of daunting challenges for builders:

1. Creating a frictionless onboarding experience: Defi App needed a way to offer sign-in flows that felt as familiar as any Web2 product, while still giving users full ownership of their wallets. The goal was simple: make onboarding so smooth and intuitive that users wouldn’t even realize they were interacting with blockchain infrastructure.
2. Ensuring cross-chain interoperability: Defi App needed to abstract away the differences between Solana and EVM so users could move across ecosystems effortlessly. Achieving this unified experience wasn’t just a technical hurdle, it was essential to delivering the super-app experience they envisioned.
3. Scaling infrastructure during traffic surges: Defi App needed a way to prepare for a large influx of users at once. The system had to be able to scale fast, and the experience had to stay smooth under pressure.
4. Releasing features at the speed of development: Defi App’s product roadmap moves fast. Without the right infrastructure in place, these moving parts would take up weeks of development time. To keep up with their pace, they needed tooling that moved as fast as they did.
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How Dynamic Helped Turn Complexity into Simplicity

Behind the scenes of Defi App’s cohesive experience is Dynamic: powering login, wallets, and identity so their team can focus on building. Here’s what Dynamic handled so Defi App didn’t have to:

1. Fast and simple user onboarding. Dynamic made it possible for Defi App users to sign in via email or social login, instantly generating embedded wallets for Solana and EVM. The result is an account-like experience where users engage with crypto without needing to think about wallets, keys, or chains.
2. Extensive multi-chain support. Dynamic has enabled Defi App to instantly support all EVM chains, SVM chains and many more. This gives Defi App the flexibility to expand its offerings while fully abstracting the underlying chains from the end user. Specifically, they were able to add support for Sonic in less than 3 days, including implementation and testing.
3. A simple and mobile-first integration: Defi App estimates they saved the time and cost equivalent of one full-time developer (40 hours/week) by integrating Dynamic. Alongside the quick setup, Defi App has leveraged Dynamic’s robust feature set, including React Native SDKs that made it easy to support their mobile launch.
4. White-glove support for all of their needs. The Defi App team emphasized that Dynamic has been a true partner, readily available through private channels with our engineers and team. Beyond quick responses, Dynamic also played a strategic role in helping Defi App align their build with long-term goals.
5. Handling scale without stress. After Defi App opened with their Beta and 15,000 users signed up in minutes, Dynamic’s infrastructure scaled without issue. This kind of dependability is essential as Defi App prepares for a TGE and future feature rollouts expected to drive heavy usage.

Summing up the value of the partnership, Dan Greer, Founder and CEO of Defi App, said:

“We didn’t want to think about the wallet infrastructure again. Dynamic was our set and forgot integration. Dynamic also felt like an extension of our team. If we requested a feature, you added it to the roadmap and built it.”

Looking Ahead

Defi App has an ambitious roadmap packed with new features and activations. With Dynamic as a core infrastructure partner, here’s what’s coming next to their platform:

• Mobile app: A mobile app experience built with Dynamic’s React Native SDKs, offering the same wallet abstraction and onboarding flow users love on the web app. Defi App aims to be mobile-first in the future.
• TGE and staking: Defi App’s Season 1 will wrap with a highly anticipated token generation event (TGE), followed by in-app staking directly from the same interface.
• Season 2 of the Degen Arena: With new XP mechanics, Battle Royale-style competitions, and referral flywheels, Season 2 is gearing up to be even more exciting.
• Perps, lending, and other DeFi activities: Defi App is expanding access to on-chain trading with integrations like Hyperliquid, providing users with ways to trade beyond traditional swaps.‍
• Native Bitcoin support: The team is eager to bring native BTC into a user-controlled, unified experience—something that today is largely only possible through centralized exchanges.