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Centra
I led design on a consumer layer for an entire blockchain network — four products behind one interface.
Canton is a permissioned network built for institutional finance — strong infrastructure, but no single place where people learn it, talk about it, and actually use it. Centra is the consumer layer on top: Academy to learn it, Lens to talk about it, Threads to transact across it, and an onboarding leg for institutions. I led design with my design partner, and we built it with AI in the loop.
- Year
- 2026
- Role
- Design lead, with a design partner
- Type
- Consumer layer · Canton Network
- Status
- Launching soon
Canton had the rails. It needed a consumer layer.
Canton has the institutional infrastructure: a validator network, regulatory-grade privacy, and a growing set of protocols. What it lacked was a front door for people — educated holders, one surface for the whole ecosystem, and a way in for the buy-side. Centra is built to be that layer: four products behind one interface, sequenced so each one feeds the next.
Learning that proves people understand what they hold.
Comprehension-tested courses on a laddered path — Canton Fundamentals through to Certified Canton Expert — with XP, certificates, and partner-curated tracks. The goal is educated holders, not click-through airdrops: people who can actually represent the network.
A curated narrative surface, not a forum.
A feed for Canton insight where every post is tone- and fact-checked before it publishes, and contributors graduate into credible, verified voices. It’s where the network’s story gets made — and carried out to the places Canton itself can’t reach.
One conversational surface for the whole ecosystem.
Describe what you want in plain language; Centra routes it across Canton’s protocols and your own wallet signs. Every action is approval-gated — Centra never holds keys or funds. It removes the “learn twelve different UIs” tax that caps what retail can do today.
Status: designed and built across Academy, Lens, and Threads, with an institutional onboarding leg on top — launching soon on Canton. Built design-led with my partner, Figma to code with AI in the loop. No public users yet.
Design lead — led design with my design partner across the whole product. We built it with AI in the loop: Figma to Claude Code, with a developer handling integrations and refactoring.
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