Unifying DeFi: Chris from Curvance on Building a Seamless Web3 Experience

Building the everything app for DeFi is more than a tagline—it’s a necessity.
In this episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani, I sat down with Chris, founder of Curvance, to unpack how his team is confronting one of decentralized finance’s biggest challenges: fragmentation.

Chris didn’t start in DeFi. He mined Bitcoin as early as 2012, moved into traditional finance, and eventually transitioned full-time into Web3. That trajectory gave him a unique perspective: the user experience in DeFi is unnecessarily complex, especially when interacting with multiple protocols across different chains.

That’s the problem Curvance is built to solve.

Why Curvance?

The average DeFi user today juggles different apps for lending, swapping, staking, and portfolio management—each often confined to a single chain. This siloed experience leads to inefficiencies, poor UX, and lost capital opportunities.

Curvance offers a different path:

• Unified liquidity across chains
• Composability that makes multi-chain strategies viable
• UX design tailored for both crypto natives and newer institutional players

The goal? A single interface where users can deploy complex strategies, borrow, lend, and manage assets—all without bouncing between fragmented protocols.

The Design Dilemma: Crypto Natives vs Institutions

Chris is intentional about who Curvance is built for—and when.

Right now, the focus is on crypto-native users. These are the power users who care about capital efficiency, composability, and multi-chain capability. But the roadmap also includes building a parallel interface for non-native users and institutional partners—interfaces that simplify without dumbing down.

It’s a two-lane highway: serve the experts, but clear a path for the rest.

Challenges Behind the Curtain

Building Curvance hasn’t been without roadblocks. Chris notes that managing alignment across multiple chains, protocols, and user segments is no easy feat.

Each integration involves technical, regulatory, and UX considerations. The team has had to make hard decisions about which chains to support first (Curvance launches on 8 blockchains, supporting dozens of assets), and how to balance composability with performance.

Where DeFi is Going (And How Curvance Fits)

Chris sees the future of DeFi in modularity and collaboration, not just more protocols.

He’s concerned about the tribalism in Web3 that slows progress. Instead of competing in silos, he believes the next big wins will come from unifying tools that reduce complexity—allowing users to focus on strategy instead of logistics.

Curvance isn’t just a protocol—it’s infrastructure for a more interoperable, user-friendly DeFi future.

The Testnet is Live. The Future is Collaborative.

If you’re curious, the public testnet is already live. Feedback is shaping the final version.

Chris and his team want the community involved. Whether you’re testing onchain strategies or just poking around the UX, every interaction helps define what a unified DeFi experience could look like.

This isn’t about building another DEX.
It’s about rethinking how we interact with finance.

Links & Resources

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