Wallet onboarding, line by line
We ran the same first-time flow through five popular wallets with people who had never held crypto. Nobody finished without help. Here is where they stopped.
Drop-off one: the choice screen
Asking a new user to pick between create, import, hardware, and watch-only on screen one is asking a question they cannot answer yet.
Default to the common path and put the other options behind a quiet secondary link.
Drop-off two: the network picker
Chain names are internal plumbing. A user who wants to send twenty dollars to a friend does not have an opinion about which rollup that happens on.
Route it for them, show the fee in local currency, and let advanced users override it in settings.
Drop-off three: the first transaction
The confirmation sheet is where jargon peaks: nonce, gas limit, calldata, allowance. Every one of those is a reason to close the app.
Show what leaves, what arrives, and what it costs. Everything else goes behind a details toggle.
The three screens that fix it
One: a single-tap account creation with no choices. Two: a funding step that accepts a card and a bank, not just an incoming transfer. Three: a plain-language confirmation with a real-money total.
In our tests those three changes took completion from roughly one in five to four in five.