I’m trying to collect real examples of crypto products that a regular person can onboard into without the usual friction. No seed phrases up front, no “go buy ETH first,” no confusing wallet setup before you can even try the thing.
Ideally it feels like signing up for a completely normal website/platform, then you realize later there are crypto rails under the hood.
Two examples already given to me:
- NBA Top Shot -mainstream-style onboarding and payments
- Immutable (gaming) – universal gamer profile with email auth + gasless transactions and automated wallet creation
What are other ones you’ve personally used that felt genuinely smooth enough for a complete normie? And what made it smooth (email login, paying with a card, didn’t have to think about gas, good account recovery, etc.)?
What’s the most “normie-friendly” crypto product you’ve used?
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Crypto ETF with very low fees.
Polymarket is by far the best normie product, it’s why it’s as big as it is. NBA Top Shot is a shitty experience because it’s built on Flow, not a great protocol and so simple actions have transaction lag, so you absolutely know crypto is under the hood because it’s so clunky.
coinbase is the obvious one but honestly? robinhood crypto. my non-crypto friends already had robinhood for stocks so adding BTC was literally just tapping a button. zero friction because they were already in the app
Sunflower Land is disgustingly normie now. When it first launched on Polygon PoS 5 years ago, it nearly took down the whole chain with its massive numbers of transactions.
Over the years, it has reduced on-chain requirement, and now you can just play it with a Google account without touching any blockchain. All its SFTs exist on-chain, but it’s much easier to trade them in-app without touching its smart contracts.
I’m about the quit because it’s turning into just another normie game.
The bitter truth is crypto is actually not solving any real life problems this is one of the reasons you don’t actually see any ground breaking application even after being here for more than a decade.
Whatever else people come up with this and that..it’s just made up issues that crypto is trying to solve.
Probably Photofinish, because it’s not really actually on chain and obfuscated on a website, which gets rid of all that pesky “having to actually know things”.
You put money into the swapper, you get credits, you play game. Doesn’t get more normie friendly than that. More or less like an online casino.
Atm?
There is a reason virtually no one interacts with crypto other than price speculation. They’re all solutions in search of problems. The people involved are some combination of incompetent and con men. With how much real money has been thrown at them, they haven’t done shit with it.
Brave browser
My IPTV provider takes crypto. But I send DOGE coin instead of BTC ect.
Well crypto exchanges like coinbase count and is something that people use daily. This is a product that I’ve personally used for years on end.
Polymarket
Google always tells me NBA Topshot is a scam when they give me the emails (even though the mail is legit )