Quicknode product
We shipped their first yield product.
A depositor needs to understand a yield product, fund it, watch it and leave it without handing over their keys. We made the first funded session the product's central job.
Context
Think of a savings account that moves itself to whichever bank pays more. You hold the keys the whole time and nobody takes a cut of the yield.
Quicknode sells blockchain infrastructure. Earn is its consumer bet: USD Coin moves between approved lending pools whenever a higher rate holds long enough to be worth the move. Seven networks, one strategy.
The decision
It already held real deposits, and first use felt like data entry
The first product shipped fast and people were willing to deposit. It also read as a spreadsheet: forms and cells put every decision on the user at once, with no clear path from the marketing page to a funded deposit.
Recorded customer calls kept returning the same verdict: it feels like data entry. In a category where people have been burned before, that friction breaks trust.
We dropped the form. One setting at a time, a live count of how many pools still qualify, and the deposit as the final step.
What we built
Five decisions moved Earn from a form to a funded deposit
A flow that ends at the first deposit
Eleven steps, with suggested values and the whole signature sequence shown up front.
A page that sells and an app that works
One site was doing both jobs and doing both worse. They now ship as separate builds behind one domain.
Browse before you connect
Pools, strategies and the standings table read with no wallet. Connecting is the whole gate.
An interface for agents
The product published its programming interface and a one-file agent instruction set on July 29.
The documentation inside the app
A depositor never leaves the product to understand it.
Inside the product
Result
A new product and a new bet for Quicknode
Earn was the first product built on the Meridian design system. Two people made it: one on the part that moves the money, one on product design and delivery. There was no separate design or research team.
The public page showed US$132,740.10 in total USD Coin when we captured it on August 22, 2026. We use that dated fact instead of projecting growth.
- Deposits at capture
- US$132,740.10
- Rebalances at capture
- 1,161
- Approved lending pools
- 117
- Networks, one strategy
- 7
Total USD Coin on the public Earn page on August 22, 2026
Moves the product handles instead of the person who deposited
The set shown on the public Earn page on that date
The product compares rates across seven networks so the user does not have to
Product facts reflect the public Earn page as of August 22, 2026. Rates, balances and the pool set move constantly.