Vaulta

Crypto design usually comes in two moods: a casino or a bank vault. We wanted neither. The logo is a keyhole held inside a soft, folded ring, and the palette keeps the dark of a trading screen but lets the color in: Volt green for anything you can act on, Orchid for selling, Cobalt for Ethereum, all on a near-black called Night. Cards are frosted glass with a thin edge in the color of the coin they hold, so you can tell ETH from USDC before you read a word.

Before a single screen, we drew the map. Onboarding leads to one home, and from there, five directions: Exchange, Market, Earn, Wallet and the NFT market, with settings and the profile behind them. Every flow had to end somewhere useful within a few taps, and every dead end got a way out. The map stayed on the wall for the whole project, which is the only reason forty-six screens still agree with each other.

Connecting a wallet is where most crypto apps lose people, so we made it a conversation instead of a form. The button asks before it acts. Four ways in, each with its own illustration: a keyless wallet tied to your account, a seed phrase, a hardware wallet over Bluetooth, or a private key. Pairing happens up in the Dynamic Island while you keep working, and the button turns Volt only when it can actually do something.

Exchange is one screen with two jobs. Convert & Link swaps one coin for another now; Limit order waits for your price, and the screen turns Orchid so you always know when you're selling. Tap the pair and the market slides up, drawn live, from an hour to a year. An order can expire in ten minutes or three months, chosen from one short list.

Crypto never sleeps, so the app shouldn't need you to keep checking it. Price alerts arrive on the lock screen in plain language, and deposits land in the Dynamic Island with the amount and a check mark, nothing more. You find out what happened without opening anything.

The wallet is where it all adds up: a stack of glass cards with the balance, four quick actions, and the people you pay most, drawn as faces instead of addresses. Swipe through them, open the full list, or dig through the history and filter it down to last week's transfers. Every piece of it, from the coin colors to the sheets that slide up, lives in a design system, so the next screen doesn't have to start from scratch.