Platform build · product design & growth Web3 / DeFi comparison platform — an earlier Coyote Concepts venture

A Web3 comparison engine, built, launched and grown from a blank tab.

Before Coyote Concepts was a web studio, it was the team behind Ponder — Selim co-founded it alongside Moe, Talha and U-FAI Lim. "Don't wonder, Ponder" was a comparison engine for Web3: one AI-driven, plain-English interface — "I want to swap 10 USDC on Ethereum for USDC.e on Arbitrum" — to find the best rate across swaps, bridges, lending, staking and restaking on 20+ chains and 30+ protocols. We designed and built the platform end to end, then ran everything around it ourselves — the X and Medium accounts, the content calendar, an Ambassador Program, and community competitions including a $15,000 Community Race Airdrop split across five partner teams. It's an in-house build, not a client project, which is exactly why it shows the full range of what we do: product, brand and growth under one roof.

Platform — landing page
$15,000Community Race Airdrop pool
20+chains compared
30+protocols integrated
5partner teams in the race
What we built

One platform, three jobs to do.

Platform

The comparison engine itself — a plain-English, "Mad-Libs" sentence builder for swap, bridge, lend and restake routes, scored by an off-chain AI model (Llama3- and Mistral-based) across 20+ EVM and non-EVM chains, stateless by design so no wallet data is ever stored.

Growth campaigns

The Community Race Airdrop: a $15,000 prize pool split across five partner teams (Lumia, Swing, Quickswap, Hybrid, Everclear), with a live leaderboard, daily streak bonuses and a "Refer a Fren" program to drive it.

Content & community

An Ambassador Program to build a core group of advocates, plus a running Medium series explaining the platform in plain terms — decentralised exchanges, account abstraction, and why liquidity fragmentation is the problem worth solving.

Social

Daily presence on X: product updates, partner-integration announcements and competition pushes, all in the same visual system as the platform itself.

The screens

From first search to first day live.

UI/UX notes

What makes it work.

01

One engine, every chain

The pitch was simple to say and hard to build: read EVM and non-EVM liquidity through one model, so a fragmented market stops meaning a fragmented decision for the person trying to swap or bridge.

02

A sentence instead of a form

"I want to swap 10 USDC on Ethereum for USDC.e on Arbitrum" reads like a sentence, not a wall of dropdowns — the signature piece of the product's UX.

03

A competition with a real prize pool, not a gimmick

The Community Race Airdrop put actual money — $15,000 — behind team-based competition, which is what took it from a launch announcement to a running community.

04

Referral and streak mechanics that compound

"Refer a Fren" and a daily check-in streak gave people a reason to come back the next day, not just once for the airdrop.

05

Brand carried from the app into the posts

The same violet-and-gold palette and layered logo mark ran through the product UI, the giveaway graphics and the Medium covers, so nothing looked like a separate marketing layer bolted on afterwards.

06

Stateless, on purpose

No custody, no stored wallet data — the platform compares rates, it doesn't hold funds, which was a deliberate trust decision for a product asking people to connect a wallet.

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