The problem Mass solves

Introduction

Mass is your single, simple, and secure point of access to a whole world of on-chain financial data, products, and services, with the mission to become the only DeFi interface you’ll ever need. You will be able to use your favorite DeFi protocols, such as Perps, Credit, and Options, directly on your mobile device, leveraging all the advantages offered by account abstraction.

Our vision is to create a world where decentralized finance becomes mainstream finance.

Why Mass?

1. Managing multiple tabs simultaneously on a large screen is relatively easy. However, multitasking is just impossible on mobile devices. While browser wallets failed to provide this level of comfort on mobile, Mass is there to face these challenges.
2. CeFi market, which includes platforms such as Revolut, Binance, and Coinbase, as well as all businesses targeting retail investors. I am confident that DeFi's future will follow suit and become increasingly mobile-centric, and I believe this shift will likely occur during the next bull market.
3. We aim to secure a first-mover advantage, much like Uniswap did with AMMs and Opensea in the NFT marketplace. Although being mobile-first may seem unconventional now, we believe it will position us for rapid and massive success when the next wave of adoption arrives.

How does it simplify DeFi on mobile and disrupt the current DeFi landscape?

• No more private keys - sign in with Google / Apple.
• No more gas tokens - add funds to a gas tank and use it on any chain we support.
• No more approvals & revocations - batch transactions.
• No more bridges and chains when swapping- we merged swaps, bridges, and cross-chain swaps under the swap feature powered by 9 aggregators.
• A quick, cheap & complete on/off-ramp service - instant transfers, 0.5% fee, swap everything on any chain for fiat currencies.
• More on-chain and off-chain data to empower your trading journey and make wiser choices - protocol revenues, tokenomics, CEX flows, etc.

Challenges I ran into

If we were aware beforehand of the shame felt, the difficulties encountered, the lack of understanding from some investors due to divergent interests, the contempt from the outside world or even from our own team, the feeling of hopelessness, the technical challenges faced, and all the other obstacles, then no one would undertake anything. We must be solid like a rock to face all these challenges, and I am facing them, surviving and fighting with my team and all the resources we still have left.

While we met all kinds of challenges—product, human, and technological—I want to emphasize the challenge with our stack:

Our stack requires a lot of expertise, from a product standpoint to an engineering standpoint. As our mission is to become the only interface with DeFi you'll ever need, we had to conceive an innovative and unprecedented architecture that allows us to plug any protocols on the fly to Mass.

This is where the HyVM (an EVM on the EVM), our MSA (Mass Smart Account), our SDK, and even our own scripting language (MSL: Mass Simplified Language) were born!

Most one-stop crypto shops failed because they could not move quickly and be agile. It's impossible if every line of code must be written in Solidity and audited before being deployed. Plus, this strategy is very expensive!

How do we provide maximum flexibility and features without having to audit, deploy, and maintain nightmarish smart contracts that are supposed to do everything?

Our architecture allows us to integrate protocols directly into our SDK (off-chain) without the need to audit them. We then generate call data that can be sent to the HyVM. The HyVM is a smart contract that can execute instructions (EVM bytecode) without having to deploy a dedicated contract to execute them.

HyVM/MSA/MSL: https://blog.mass.money/tag/tech

With this stack, we will eventually build any strategies, including lending, borrowing, flash loans, transaction scheduling, and more!

Brainpower, courage, and determination!