Squad is a crypto wallet with frens: a mobile-first group wallet where a squad forms, pools funds, and makes collective decisions: token transfers, NFT group-buys, all voted on together. A client approached me in April 2022 to design it. Think Gnosis Safe, but mobile-only and built on Polygon for negligible fees.
Problem statement
- How do we enable a group of frens to form a squad and degen together?
- How do we ensure a frictionless experience while sticking to minimum fees?
Approach
Onboarding. Google login sits next to WalletConnect, because the seed-phrase ritual is where traditional wallets lose normal people. New users get an account in seconds; crypto-natives connect what they already have (address or ENS).
Squad creation. Name your squad, add members by public address or ENS (invitees get a notification), then set the approval limit: the number of votes needed to pass a decision. Ten members with a 50% limit means five votes pass the block.
Decisions as blocks. Every group decision is a "block" that members validate, a deliberate echo of how the chain itself works. The interface is a swipe: accept or reject, WAGMI or NGMI. Governance disguised as a game.
Status
Unreleased: the team pivoted to explore other ideas. The design remains a complete blueprint for consumer-grade multisig: the hardest crypto primitive to explain, packaged as something you'd swipe through with friends.
