Moralis.com

The Ultimate DEX Terminal for wild degens

COMPANY

Moralis Web3

ROLE

Lead Designer

EXPERTISE

UX/UI Design

YEAR

2024

Overview

Fueled by my dream of a permissionless future and my inner degen instincts and needs, I joined Moralis to shape and elevate the Moralis platform — a high-speed DEX terminal, with real-time on-chain data, built for those hunting alpha in the trenches 24/7.

Role

I lead the end-to-end design of the platform — improving existing user journeys and crafting new industry-defining features.

Impact

My impact until now can be measured by in multiple improvements to the platform’s KPIs, most notably, a 3x increase in monthly active users, reaching over 600,000.

Token Data

The Token Page is the core of the product. It delivers real-time snapshot of any token's market activity and on-chain stats. It serves as the trader's cockpit, intentionally high in data density, giving degens, researchers, and alpha-hunters the context they need to make fast and accurate trading decisions. This is why I prioritized its redesign as a strategic move for the products success.

Token Page Redesign

Most of Moralis' website traffic came through organic Google searches for token tickers, making the Token Page the primary entry point for new users. While analyzing ways to increase user retention and deliver more value within the platform, I uncovered a key behavioral insight


All users followed a fragmented workflow across multiple tools to go from token discovery to actual trading:

  • Moralis for token discovery

  • Holderscan for holders data trends

  • Bubble Maps for token distribution

  • Dexscreener for accessing data about trading pair's volume, liquidity and Transactions

  • Jupiter or Phantom Wallet for executing the trade

This insight made it clear: the more of these data points we could offer within the product, the stronger the incentive not to leave our platform users would have.

My findings didn't just inform UX priorities — they also shaped the roadmap for our API team, triggering a major push to build out infrastructure for live holders data, transaction feeds, liquidity metrics, and whales and top traders identification.

Taking into account the insights I gathered, I redesigned the Token Page to be a single source of truth for all token data, using our enhanced Moralis APIs. It now includes:

Strategy Builder


The Strategy Builder is the OG feature of the platform — the one that started it all. It's the core tool built for degens who are sniffing out alpha before it pumps. It allows traders to scan the market based on key on-chain indicators like buy pressure, market cap, hype score, and more. This tool lets you build your own custom strategy for finding low-cap to mid-cap gems.

Strategy Builder Redesign

The Strategy Builder quickly became a benchmark feature at Moralis for alpha-hunting degens. However, as the platform grew, we noticed that while power users thrived with it, newcomers struggled to build strategies due to the dense and technical interface. Basically as the daily active users were growing, we noticed a drop in user retention on this page.

To address this issue, I conducted user interviews with both veteran and newly onboarded community members. A key insight emerged: the UI needed to feel more intuitive and familiar — closer to the filtering experience found in e-commerce platforms. After all, we were essentially offering a "shopping" interface for crypto tokens. Inspired by that model, I redesigned the tool to let users scan the market more naturally — applying filters and criteria in a way that mirrored how they already search for products online.

The new Strategy Builder has been a huge success, with users reporting that it's much easier to use and more powerful than the old version.


Portfolio

The Portfolio Tracker is a must-have in every degen's toolkit. It lets users monitor both their own and other whales' wallets in real time — unlocking deep insight into wallet performance, token holdings, and DeFi positions across multiple chains.

The page follows a pretty standard UI pattern breaking down wallet content by token and chain allocation, providing a visual overview of what kind of assets are held and where. It also highlights open positions across different DeFi protocols, making it easy to track engagement in staking, farming, and liquidity pools.

In addition, the portfolio view offers full trading stats such as total trade volume, realized profit/loss, and PnL trends over time. When available, wallet metadata (like social links and ENS info) helps users identify who the wallet belongs. It is built entirely using our Moralis APIs.


DEX Terminal

As the platform matured, it needed to evolve beyond a degen-only look and feel. To support this shift, we designed a proper landing page that functioned as a DEX terminal — showcasing top-performing tokens, trending narratives, and leading chains by volume and daily active users. This new homepage gave Moralis a sharper, more credible first impression, positioning it to compete in the highly competitive landscape of token discovery platforms.

DEX Feed

The DEX Feed is an experimental feature that is slowly gaining traction. Built like a social feed but loaded with real-time, on-chain updates for the tokens you've watchlisted, it surfaces key events such as price, volume, and holder changes — combined with whale and top trader buys and sells — especially across low-cap tokens, so you can track what matters as it happens.

Designed for degens who want to quickly scan the market, the feed turns raw blockchain noise into a signal-rich stream for spotting early moves and trends.


Results

User engagement

Increased session duration by 25% to around 2m 04s due to improved existing user journeys and newly developed unique features.

Growing User Base

The platform is gaining more traction among crypto users worldwide, with a 3x increase in monthly active users, reaching over 600,000.

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Conclusion

Moralis has been a fun, fast-paced, and constantly evolving product, full of experiments, learnings, and failures that feel like a natural part of every degen's daily grind. It's a space where shipping fast and breaking things isn't a motto — it's a lifestyle. This project reignited my passion for building and pushed me to go beyond design — leading me to actively contribute to the platform's codebase alongside my design work.

Watching the product grow and serve the next wave of crypto-native traders has been a strong enough to keep me up late, and inspiring enough to make every long day feel worth it.