DeFi

CoinTracker co-founder Chandan Lodha describes how the company navigated crypto market boom and bust cycles, including a near shutdown in 2020. He says a long-term mission, honest communication, and a strong co-founder and team helped them persist through crypto winter. After rapid growth exposed gaps in support for newer DeFi activity, CoinTracker paused other work to improve product quality and put user feedback at the center of decisions. Lodha’s advice is to stay humble during booms, keep building through downturns, and pair a long-term view with a bias to ship.

Thiago explains how he moved from React Native development into Web3 and describes his work on an NFT fashion project. The talk introduces DeFi, GameFi, and the challenges that scams and difficult onboarding create for newcomers. It outlines a React Native Web3 stack: a low-level blockchain library such as viem, a wallet connection kit, and hooks such as wagmi. Thiago explains why browser-focused tooling often requires polyfills in React Native and discusses efforts to make Web3 apps and cross-platform development easier.