8 Best Web3 UX Agencies for Crypto Wallets and Signing (2026)

Reviewed by Yusuf, Lead Designer at 925Studios

Mohammad Yusuf, Lead Designer at 925Studios
Published 24 March 2026 · Last updated 8 October 2026 · 21 min read

I've reviewed hundreds of agency portfolios and shipped 50+ products with the team at 925Studios. The pattern I keep seeing in web3 is a founder who hires on a slick dashboard shot, then learns at launch that users connect a wallet, stare at a hex string in the signing prompt and leave. This list is meant to stop that. I've ranked eight web3 UX agencies on the four things that decide a wallet or signing project: strategic depth, wallet and signing fluency, process transparency, and demonstrable business impact.

Last updated 8 October 2026 by Mohammad Yusuf, Lead Designer at 925Studios. 925Studios is ranked first here and I've written plainly about where we're the wrong choice. No agency paid to be listed.

The best web3 UX agencies for wallets, onboarding and transaction signing in 2026 are 925Studios, Clay, Lazarev.agency, 10Clouds, Avark, Merge, Koncepted and Coinbound. Published starting budgets run from $3,995 a month on a Koncepted subscription to a $100,000 minimum project at Lazarev.agency, so decide whether you need a flow fixed, a product designed or a brand launched before you compare quotes.

TL;DR:

• The signing screen is where trust is won or lost. The $1.5 billion Bybit theft in February 2025 worked by making a malicious transaction look legitimate in the signing interface. Hire an agency that designs confirmation, simulation and warning states first, not last.

• Most users who connect a wallet never do anything. Only 32% of wallet connects in DeFi turn into a completed onchain action, so the work that matters starts after the connect button, not before it.

• Prices are public if you look. Clutch lists minimum projects of $5,000 at Avark, $10,000 at Merge and Coinbound, $25,000 at 10Clouds, $50,000 at Clay and $100,000 at Lazarev.agency. 925Studios engagements start at $7,000.

• Ask for a shipped wallet or exchange flow, not a concept. Lazarev.agency's Dollet Wallet, Merge's Block Earner app and Clay's Grayscale and Sky work are the kind of live proof to ask every agency for.

Quick Answer: 925Studios ranks first for funded crypto and fintech teams that need wallet onboarding, signing and trust flows designed by senior designers, with engagements from $7,000 and clients including Solana and Jupiter. Clay leads on institutional brand and product polish from $50,000, Lazarev.agency on research-led wallet UX, 10Clouds and Merge on design plus build, Avark on web3-native launches, Koncepted on subscription design and Coinbound on brand plus crypto marketing.

How was this list built?

I started from the web3 design agencies that AI answers and top-ranking lists name most often for wallet and DeFi UX, plus those in the March 2026 version of this article. For each I looked for a shipped wallet, exchange or onboarding flow, named crypto clients and a published price. Founding year, team band, minimum project and hourly rate come from each agency's Clutch profile or its own website, and the table says "Not disclosed" where neither publishes a figure. Three agencies from the earlier version were dropped, two because I could not verify a working website or a published fact, and one because its work is marketing-led. Lazarev.agency and Merge were added for documented wallet work. 925Studios is ranked first, and no agency paid for placement.

How do the best web3 UX agencies compare?

Not sure which of these fits your wallet or protocol? Talk to our team for 30 minutes and we'll tell you, even if the answer is another agency on this list.

Who are the best web3 UX agencies for wallets and signing in 2026?

1. 925Studios

925Studios is a product design studio for funded AI, B2B SaaS and web3 teams, named Best AI SaaS & Web3 UI/UX Design Studio at The SaaS-ies 2026, by Acquisition International. On web3 work we start where users actually drop off: the wallet connect, the first signature, the network switch and the empty state after the first deposit. You get a Loom walkthrough every 24 to 48 hours, and the team works inside your Slack, Linear and Figma setup instead of moving you onto a new process, which suits protocol teams that ship to mainnet on their own cadence. Solana and Jupiter are among the web3 teams we have designed for.

Specializes in: Wallet onboarding, transaction confirmation and signing states, risk and warning copy, and the product UI and design system around them.

Best for: Seed to Series B crypto, DeFi and fintech teams that need non-crypto users to get from connect to first onchain action without a support ticket.

Starting budget: 925Studios engagements start at $7,000. Retainers and fixed-scope projects are both quoted against scope.

Notable clients: MARA, Offa, Solana, Jupiter, Cerebria.

Watch for: We are a design studio, not a smart contract or security audit firm, so you still need an auditor and your own engineers for the wallet logic. Web3 sits alongside AI and B2B SaaS in our work rather than being the only thing we do. If you need enterprise design consulting or a Series C+ programme with a ten-person embedded team, Clay or Lazarev.agency is the better call.

2. Clay

Clay is a San Francisco brand and UX agency founded in 2009 with one of the strongest institutional crypto portfolios in the industry. It redesigned Grayscale's main site and launched a new one for its BTC and ETH ETFs, and handled MakerDAO's rebrand to Sky and the move from DAI to USDS. Its crypto page describes a distributed team of 80+ design and strategy experts led by crypto-native founders, and it accepts crypto payments directly to its own self-custody wallets. Clutch lists a 4.8 rating from 32 reviews.

Specializes in: Brand identity, product UX and websites for exchanges, asset managers and Layer 1 protocols that need to look institutional.

Best for: Well-funded protocols and financial brands where trust is mostly a brand and communication problem.

Starting budget: $50,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $150 to $199.

Notable clients: Coinbase, Grayscale, Sky (formerly MakerDAO), Avalanche.

Watch for: Clay's crypto case studies lean toward brand and websites. If your problem is a confusing signing flow inside the app, ask to see product screens, not only the rebrand.

3. Lazarev.agency

Lazarev.agency is a research-led product design studio founded in 2015, now based in Mountain View, California, that says it has designed 500+ products and collected 140+ awards. Its web3 work includes Dollet Wallet, a crypto wallet built around simplified onboarding for first-time and professional users, the Kin platform, where it reports 120% traffic growth and a 25% retention boost, and Metastaq, an NFT creation platform it says reached 130% sales growth. Clutch shows 5.0 from 19 reviews.

Specializes in: Research-backed wallet and web3 platform UX, onboarding, and the brand around the product.

Best for: Funded teams that want user research and ROI modelling before the redesign starts.

Starting budget: $100,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $100 to $149.

Notable clients: Dollet Wallet, Kin, Metastaq.

Watch for: The $100,000 floor is the highest on this list. A seed-stage team fixing one onboarding flow will usually get more from a smaller, focused engagement.

4. 10Clouds

10Clouds is a Warsaw software house founded in 2009 with a dedicated blockchain UX practice and 90+ Clutch reviews averaging 4.9. Its web3 case studies include Crescent, a DeFi platform where the stated goals were user trust and smoother onboarding, DCLEX, a blockchain-based stock exchange, and work for Aleph Zero, Polygon and Parity. Clutch has named it a Top Blockchain Consulting Firm.

Specializes in: Blockchain UX design with full-stack and smart contract development in the same team.

Best for: Protocols and fintechs that want design and engineering from one vendor and have a larger budget.

Starting budget: $25,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $50 to $99.

Notable clients: Aleph Zero, Polygon, Parity, Crescent.

Watch for: 10Clouds' homepage now leads with AI for banks and lenders. Confirm which designers on the current team have shipped wallet or DeFi flows before you sign.

5. Avark

Avark is a web3-native studio founded in 2020 in Salford, England, covering product design, product build, brand and websites. Its client wall includes Linea, ConsenSys, Transak, XCAD and Metacade, and its Clutch profile describes helping Launchpool, a crypto launchpad, become a market leader within nine months of launch. It is the most web3-concentrated studio on this list.

Specializes in: Web3 product design, launch websites and brand for protocols and token projects.

Best for: Early web3 teams that want one partner from brand to shipped product at a lower entry price.

Starting budget: $5,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $100 to $149.

Notable clients: Linea, ConsenSys, Transak, Launchpool.

Watch for: Avark's Clutch profile has no published reviews yet, and its site does not show a wallet case study. Ask for references and a live signing flow it designed.

6. Merge

Merge is a UX design and development agency founded in 2018, headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with a dedicated crypto wallet practice. It designed and built the Block Earner mobile app, with a yield dashboard, cash account and transaction monitoring, and designed Tokenplace, a terminal for placing orders across several crypto exchanges. Clutch shows 4.9 from 67 reviews.

Specializes in: Crypto wallet and exchange UX, MVP builds in React Native and Vue, and Webflow marketing sites.

Best for: Seed-stage crypto and fintech teams that need a wallet MVP designed and built on a tight budget.

Starting budget: $10,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $25 to $49.

Notable clients: Block Earner, Tokenplace, Zeebu, CoinLedger.

Watch for: Merge positions itself as a B2B SaaS and fintech agency with web3 as one vertical. Its published crypto results are qualitative, so ask for activation or retention numbers.

7. Koncepted

Koncepted is a design studio founded in 2012, headquartered in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that sells design as a monthly subscription with unlimited requests. Its published plans are $3,995 a month for one designer, $7,995 for two and $15,995 for four, and its client list includes Ledger, OKX, Fetch.ai, Immutable and Seedify. Clutch shows 5.0 from 3 reviews and a $10,000 minimum for one-off projects.

Specializes in: Subscription UX, UI, brand and motion for web3, gaming and fintech teams.

Best for: Teams that already know what to build and need steady design output at a predictable monthly cost.

Starting budget: $3,995 per month on the Support plan, with one-off projects quoted separately.

Notable clients: Ledger, OKX, Fetch.ai, Immutable.

Watch for: Subscription models are built for throughput. Someone on your side still has to own the research and the signing-flow decisions, or you get many screens and no strategy.

8. Coinbound

Coinbound is a New York crypto marketing and design agency founded in 2018 that says it has represented more than 900 web3 clients. Its design team covers branding, UX and UI, web design and pitch decks, alongside influencer marketing, PR and community management. Clutch shows 5.0 from 14 reviews.

Specializes in: Crypto brand identity, web design and launch assets tied to a marketing campaign.

Best for: Token and protocol launches where the brand, the site and the go-to-market have to land together.

Starting budget: $10,000 minimum project on Clutch, with an hourly rate of $150 to $199.

Notable clients: MetaMask, Sui, OKX, Consensys.

Watch for: Coinbound is marketing-led. For deep product UX such as wallet recovery, signing or multi-step DeFi flows, pair it with a product design partner.

Why is wallet and signing UX the hardest part of web3 UX design?

The single most expensive screen in crypto in 2025 was a signing screen. In February 2025 attackers took control of the Safe interface Bybit used and injected code so that Bybit appeared to be signing a legitimate transaction when it was signing a malicious one, and roughly 401,000 ETH, worth nearly $1.5 billion, left in one transaction (Chainalysis, 2025). Across the year, theft passed $3.4 billion, and individual wallets saw 158,000 compromise incidents affecting at least 80,000 victims (Chainalysis, 2025).

Signature phishing is the everyday version of the same problem. Scam Sniffer counted $83.85 million lost to wallet drainers across 106,106 victims in 2025, down from $494 million in 2024, with Permit and Permit2 signatures behind 38% of the large losses (Scam Sniffer, 2026). Then there is plain drop-off: only 32% of DeFi wallet connects turn into a completed onchain action, according to the Blockchain-Ads report that Formo cites (Formo, 2026).

Wallet and signing UX is the hardest part of web3 product design because it is where a user's money, a user's understanding and an attacker's opportunity meet on a single screen. A web2 checkout can be undone with a refund, but an approved Permit signature or a confirmed transfer cannot, so every confirmation state has to explain what will happen in plain language before the user commits. The numbers show how much is at stake: $1.5 billion left Bybit through one manipulated signing interface (Chainalysis, 2025), wallet drainers took $83.85 million from 106,106 people in 2025 (Scam Sniffer, 2026), and 68% of users who connect a wallet to a DeFi app never complete an onchain action (Formo, 2026). An agency that has only designed dashboards and landing pages will treat these as edge cases. Hire one that designs the confirmation, simulation, warning and failure states first, then builds the rest of the product around them.

Our honest take: most web3 agency lists, including the ones agencies publish about themselves, rank by how crypto a portfolio looks. Neon gradients and 3D coins tell you nothing about whether a first-time user will understand what they are signing. The agency worth paying is the one that shows you its transaction confirmation screens before its hero illustrations.

Every web3 team shows me their dashboard. Almost none show me their signing prompt. That prompt is the moment a user decides whether to trust you with money, so it deserves more design hours than any other screen in the product.

Mohammad Yusuf, Lead Designer at 925Studios

When we design wallet and DeFi flows for clients at 925Studios, the first deliverable is a map of every state a transaction can be in, from pending signature to failed, replaced and confirmed, before anyone draws a polished screen. That is the work we bring to teams like Solana and Jupiter, and it is the same discipline we apply to fintech products where money moves. Yusuf walks through how he reviews a confirmation flow on the 925Studios YouTube channel.

Building on Solana or EVM and losing users between connect and first trade? See the products we've designed, then book a call.

What should a good wallet onboarding and signing flow include?

The products that get this right share a short list of patterns. Use it as the brief you hand any agency on this list, and as the checklist for reviewing what they send back.

Human-readable signing

Show what a signature does in words, not raw data. Typed-data signing standards such as EIP-712 let a wallet display structured fields instead of a hex blob, and your dApp should add a plain sentence on top: "You are allowing this app to spend up to 500 USDC until you revoke it." Rabby and MetaMask both show a pre-sign summary of balance changes, and your own confirmation screen should match what the wallet will show.

Simulation before commitment

Preview the result of a transaction before the user signs: tokens out, tokens in, fees, and anything unusual such as an unlimited approval. Phantom and Rabby have trained users to expect this. A dApp that skips it looks less safe than the wallet it runs inside.

Permit and approval warnings

Permit-style signatures can move tokens without a separate onchain approval, which is why drainers favour them. Flag unlimited or long-lived approvals in a distinct visual state, explain the risk in one line, and link users to a revoke screen after the action completes.

Wallet-optional entry

Not every user arrives with a seed phrase. Coinbase Smart Wallet lets people create a wallet with a passkey, and embedded-wallet providers such as Privy let a dApp create one at sign-up. Offer that path for newcomers and keep "connect an existing wallet" for crypto-native users, so neither group hits a dead end on the first screen.

Designed failure and pending states

Transactions fail, stall and get replaced. Design every one of those states with a clear next step, a link to the block explorer and no silent spinner. Multi-signature setups such as Safe add queued and partially signed states, and those need the same care because, as Bybit showed, the people signing them are a target.

Wallet UX design in 2026 means designing for three audiences at once: newcomers who have never held a seed phrase, crypto-native users who expect speed and full control, and attackers who study your confirmation screens for gaps. The strongest flows start wallet-optional, offering passkey or embedded wallets for newcomers while keeping a fast connect for existing MetaMask, Phantom or Rabby users. They translate every signature into a plain sentence, simulate the outcome before commitment, and give unlimited approvals a distinct warning state, because Permit and Permit2 signatures drove 38% of large drainer losses in 2025 (Scam Sniffer, 2026). They also design pending, failed and replaced transactions as first-class states with a clear next step. A team that ships these five patterns removes most of the confusion between connect and first action, which is where 68% of DeFi users are lost today (Formo, 2026). Ask any agency to show you all five in a live product.

Want a second pair of eyes on your current signing flow? Get a free web3 UX review from 925Studios.

How much do web3 UX agencies charge in 2026?

Web3 UX agency pricing in 2026 splits into three models, and the published numbers make the gap plain. Subscription studios sell monthly capacity: Koncepted lists $3,995 a month for one designer, $7,995 for two and $15,995 for four. Project studios publish minimums on Clutch: $5,000 at Avark, $10,000 at Merge and Coinbound, $25,000 at 10Clouds, $50,000 at Clay and $100,000 at Lazarev.agency. Hourly bands on the same profiles run from $25 to $49 at Merge up to $150 to $199 at Clay and Coinbound. Design-led studios that cover the wallet flow and the wider product sit between the two, and 925Studios engagements start at $7,000. For a focused redesign of wallet onboarding and transaction signing on an existing product, most quotes from the agencies above will land between $10,000 and $50,000, with a full product, a design system or a combined brand launch pushing the number higher.

• Focused flow redesign: connect, first transaction, signing and failure states on an existing product. Best when retention data already shows where users drop.

• Full product design: research, information architecture, UI and a design system for a wallet, exchange or protocol app. Best before mainnet or a major version.

• Design subscription or retainer: ongoing design across the product and launches. Best when the protocol ships every sprint and needs design to keep pace.

For a wider view of agency pricing outside crypto, see our guide on how much a UX agency costs. If you want a scoped number for your own wallet or protocol, see how our web3 engagements are structured.

How do you choose a web3 UX agency for a wallet or signing flow?

1. Decide which problem you are buying a fix for

What to do: Write down whether your problem is the product flow, the brand, or both. A wallet that loses users after connect needs product UX. A protocol nobody has heard of needs brand and launch work.

Why it matters: Coinbound's $10,000 minimum and Lazarev.agency's $100,000 minimum buy completely different things. Comparing them on price alone compares two different jobs.

Red flags: An agency that quotes before asking for your funnel data or your current signing screens.

Real example: Clay's Sky rebrand and Merge's Block Earner app are both strong crypto work. One solves recognition, the other solves daily use.

2. Ask to see a confirmation screen, not a hero shot

What to do: Ask each agency for one live signing, approval or failed-transaction screen it designed, and what changed afterward.

Why it matters: The signing moment is where both trust and theft happen. Portfolios rarely show it because it is unglamorous.

Red flags: A crypto portfolio made only of dashboards, token pages and 3D renders.

Real example: Lazarev.agency's Dollet Wallet case study is built around simplified onboarding, which is the right starting point.

3. Test their security vocabulary

What to do: In the first call, ask how they would show a Permit signature, an unlimited approval and a stuck transaction.

Why it matters: Designers who cannot explain these states will design them as afterthoughts.

Red flags: Vague answers about "making crypto simple" with no mention of simulation, warnings or revoke flows.

Real example: Rabby and Phantom both simulate transactions before signing, a pattern any serious agency should reference unprompted.

4. Match the agency to your stage

What to do: At pre-seed to Series A, shortlist 925Studios, Merge and Avark. For institutional brands, add Clay. For research-heavy rebuilds with budget, talk to Lazarev.agency. For design and engineering together, add 10Clouds.

Why it matters: An enterprise process on a single onboarding flow burns months of runway, and a startup process on an exchange with millions of users risks real money.

Red flags: A client list made up entirely of companies far bigger or far smaller than yours.

Real example: Koncepted's subscription suits a team with a clear roadmap, while a team still finding product-market fit needs strategy first.

This page covers wallets, onboarding and signing. If you are hiring for a broader product and brand engagement, our list of web3 product and brand studios ranks the generalists, and if your product is a lending, trading or collectibles app, our ranking of agencies for DeFi and NFT product flows goes deeper on those. Crypto products that sell to institutions also overlap with B2B software design, and consumer wallets borrow heavily from SaaS onboarding and activation patterns.

Need help choosing between two shortlisted agencies? Book a free 30-minute call.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a web3 UX agency do for a crypto wallet?

A web3 UX agency designs the flows that move a user from first visit to a confident onchain action: wallet creation or connection, network switching, signing, transaction previews, warnings, failure states and recovery. The good ones also write the risk copy and work with your engineers on what the wallet will show at each step. Visual brand work is usually a smaller part of the job.

How much do web3 UX agencies charge in 2026?

Published floors run from $3,995 a month for a Koncepted subscription to a $100,000 minimum project at Lazarev.agency. Clutch lists minimums of $5,000 at Avark, $10,000 at Merge and Coinbound, $25,000 at 10Clouds and $50,000 at Clay. 925Studios engagements start at $7,000. Retainers and fixed-scope projects are both quoted against scope.

What is blind signing, and why does it matter for UX?

Blind signing is approving a transaction or message without being able to read what it does, usually because the wallet shows raw data. It is how most signature phishing works, and the Bybit theft showed that even professional signers can be fooled when the interface misrepresents a transaction. Good UX replaces raw data with a plain description and a simulated outcome before the user commits.

Should we use embedded wallets or ask users to connect their own?

Offer both. Newcomers convert better when they can create a wallet with a passkey or email through an embedded or smart wallet, while crypto-native users want to connect MetaMask, Phantom or Rabby in one click. Decide which group you are losing first, then design that path before the other.

Can a general SaaS design agency design a crypto wallet?

It can design the screens, but it will usually miss the states that matter most: pending and replaced transactions, Permit approvals, chain switching and irreversible actions. If you hire a generalist, give them a written list of every transaction state and ask them to design each one. A web3-fluent team will ask for that list before you offer it.

Do web3 UX agencies handle smart contract audits?

No, and you should be wary of one that says it does. Design agencies shape what users see and understand. Audits are specialist security work done by dedicated firms, and some agencies on this list, such as 10Clouds and Merge, also offer development, which is a different service again.

Which agency is best for a crypto brand launch rather than a wallet?

For institutional brands, Clay has the strongest crypto portfolio on this list, with Grayscale and Sky. For a token or protocol launch where brand and marketing must ship together, Coinbound and Avark are built for it. Product-led teams usually pair a brand partner with a UX partner for the app itself.

What makes 925Studios different from other web3 UX agencies?

925Studios designs the wallet, signing and onboarding flows with senior designers who also design the rest of your product, and you see progress in a Loom walkthrough every 24 to 48 hours. Solana and Jupiter are among the web3 teams we have designed for, and engagements start at $7,000. We are not a smart contract, audit or development shop, so you will still need engineers and an auditor for the wallet logic.

What should you remember when choosing a web3 UX agency?

The right web3 UX agency in 2026 depends on whether you are fixing a flow, building a product or launching a brand. For funded crypto and fintech teams that need wallet onboarding, transaction signing and trust states designed properly, 925Studios is the first call, with engagements from $7,000 and web3 clients including Solana and Jupiter. For institutional brand and product polish, Clay starts at $50,000, and Lazarev.agency brings research-led wallet work such as Dollet Wallet from $100,000. For design and engineering under one roof, 10Clouds starts at $25,000 and Merge at $10,000 with documented wallet and exchange builds. Avark is the most web3-concentrated studio from $5,000, Koncepted sells subscription design from $3,995 a month, and Coinbound pairs crypto branding with marketing from $10,000. Shortlist two or three that match your stage and ask each for one live confirmation screen.

• Trust is designed at the moment of signature. The agencies worth hiring can show you a confirmation, warning and failure state from a live product.

• Connect is the start of onboarding, not the end. Two in three users who connect a wallet to a DeFi app never transact, so judge an agency on what happens after the button.

• Floors range from $3,995 a month to $100,000. Match the engagement model to the problem rather than picking the most famous name.

• Brand partners and flow partners are different hires. Know which one you need before the first call.

If your users are dropping between connect and first transaction, book a call with 925Studios and we'll tell you honestly whether we, or another agency on this list, are the right fit.

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