Over the past few months, we have been experience great exuberance in the cryptocurrency market. The adoption of Ethereum smart contracts gave us the power to launch our own blockchain-backed totally-not-security (wink) tokens by changing a few lines of code in a turnkey template. Suddenly, everyone and their Shiba dog is a blockchain startup founder. The floodgates are open and nothing can stop the tide of ICOs. In this cesspool of obvious scams and Ponzi schemes, how can a serious sophisticated Web 3.0 developer differentiate themselves from the common street hustler?
The answer, it seems, is really cool web animations.
We have the fancy loading spinners,
The inexplicable fox,
Socially awkward balloons,
The crowd-sourced plan for world domination,
The Miyazaki crypto-wonderland,
The UX designer’s recurring nightmare,
Connected nodes being ripped apart by the gravitational pull of a blackhole,
The post-Newtonian starscape,
And not quite in the same category but brilliant nonetheless, the sorry-but-no-refund apology message,
It appears that at least 20% of the engineering time at any self-respecting modern-day cryptocurrency startup must be dedicated towards creating futuristic animations, preferably using web standards like Web Canvas and SVG.
I look forward to the groundbreaking innovation in web animation technology that the next decade of cryptocurrency will surely bring.