Building In the Open

Beta at Breakneck Speed

The idea of “building in the open” sounds noble. Transparent. Based. A uniquely masochistic ode to community input and rapid iteration. And it is all those things—but it’s also chaotic, demanding, and thrilling in ways that we at Warden are only just beginning to appreciate.

Since Warden launched its this Beta, we’ve been racing through growth, experimentation, and sometimes, fire drills. But through it all, one thing is becoming clear: crypto needs a better interface with the world - and Warden is shaping up to be that interface.

The Opportunity (and the Onslaught)

Here’s the reality. We are in scale-up mode, much earlier than we ever anticipated.

Our first product, Warden, your crypto co-pilot and AI Everything App, has - at warp speed - moved from a prototype to a product people love. What started as an experiment in making crypto more human is now serving millions of users weekly. And the core reason is simple: Warden makes crypto feel like it always should have—easy and intuitive.

That’s thanks to the AI agents powering the experience. They handle the thinking and problem-solving for you: routing trades, answering questions, helping you manage assets across chains. No manuals, no complex dashboards— just getting shit done.

At Warden, we believe every major application will integrate AI. But most of the tooling to support that simply doesn’t exist yet. We’re still at the very beginning of this new design space—and so we’ve made it our mission to own as much of it as we can by building an end-to-end stack for AI-integrated applications.

That’s why going from one chain to three wasn’t just an expansion—it was a statement. With Base, Ethereum, and Solana now live, Warden is well on its way to becoming a universal front-end to Web3. And the market is responding.

Just a few weeks ago, we launched our “Swap Till You Drop” campaign. We expected traction. We didn’t expect 150,000+ swaps a day, or the deluge of traffic that followed. Our backend, and third-party APIs have all been stress-tested — sometimes to their breaking point. But users kept showing up, and kept swapping.

Warden by the Numbers

• 5 million+ users and growing

• 700,000 Weekly Active Users

• Average session time well over 5 minutes

• A truly global user base, spanning nearly every country

• 150,000+ swaps a day

We’re humbled—and a bit astonished—by this level of adoption. But it also brings new challenges.

The Challenges We’re Facing

Let’s talk about the hard parts.

First, the bots. As expected, Sybil farmers have massed—creating fake accounts, running scripts, and trying to game the system. But if you think you can script your way to rewards, you’re mistaken. We’re actively rolling out protections, filters, and heuristics to ensure that real users benefit—not farm armies.

Second, the stack itself. Our infra depends on multiple third-party services—indexers, RPC nodes, and APIs—and many of them were never built to handle the kind of traffic we’re now throwing at them. We’ve hit rate limits. We’ve been throttled. We’ve seen service degradation. In some cases, we’ve had to re-architect core flows to keep things alive.

But that’s part of what building in the open looks like. You move fast, you learn in public, and you fix things as you go.

Where We’re Headed

Beta isn’t just about proving Warden works. It’s about proving it scales—and that it matters.

We’re building more than just a Web3 app. We’re creating a new interface layer for crypto, powered by AI, and designed to be radically simple. The early traction shows it’s working. Now the hard part is turning this into infrastructure that lasts.

To the millions of users who’ve shown up early: thank you. To the builders watching from the sidelines: come build with us. And to the bots—nice try.

And to you - thank you. Warden is just getting started.