User experience has long been crypto’s Achilles’ heel. While projects like Immutable and Stack Capital have found success through gaming and private market exposure, they still leave core usability challenges untouched. Immutable’s progress in blockchain gaming is impressive, and Stack Capital gives investors access to promising growth-stage ventures—but neither addresses the fundamental barrier keeping crypto from going mainstream: complexity.
That’s where BlockDAG stands apart. With its account abstraction upgrade—featuring social logins, wallet recovery, and smart wallet functionality—BlockDAG isn’t just building for scale, it’s building for people. In a space craving simplicity, crypto user experience may finally be catching up.
Immutable: Pioneering Blockchain Gaming
Founded in 2018 by Robbie Ferguson, James Ferguson, and Alex Connolly in Sydney, Australia, Immutable emerged as a trailblazer in blockchain gaming. Their inaugural game, Etherbots, introduced players to digital ownership through the Ethereum blockchain.
Subsequently, this was followed by Gods Unchained, a blockchain-based e-sport launched in July 2018 after a successful $2.4 million seed funding round. In the following year, the company rebranded to Immutable and developed Immutable X, an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution in collaboration with StarkWare, facilitating scalable and carbon-neutral NFT trading.
Most notably, in 2024, Immutable’s platform experienced unprecedented growth, onboarding over 250 well-funded games—surpassing the cumulative total of all previous years. This expansion solidified Immutable’s position as a leader in the blockchain gaming ecosystem, delivering substantial value to its investors and partners.
Stack: Empowering Growth-Stage Companies
Stack Capital Group Inc., listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker STCK, is an investment holding company focused on providing shareholders with exposure to growth-to-late-stage private businesses.
Through this model, by investing in equity, debt, and other securities, Stack Capital offers a diversified portfolio, granting investors access to high-growth companies typically unavailable in public markets.
Currently, Stack Capital’s portfolio comprises ten investments across various sectors, including notable companies like SpaceX (space exploration and communications), Canva (graphic design), and Hopper (travel and leisure). These investments contributed $10.04 per share to the company’s BVPS as of September 2024.
In response to this growth, in October 2024, Stack Capital announced a $16.7 million financing initiative, enhancing its capacity to pursue attractive opportunities in growth and late-stage private businesses. CEO Jeff Parks expressed optimism about a return to a more normalized IPO environment in 2025, which could benefit Stack Capital’s portfolio companies and, by extension, its investors.
BlockDAG’s Account Abstraction Changes Everything
For crypto to reach the next billion users, it has to be simple. BlockDAG’s upcoming account abstraction upgrade tackles crypto’s most persistent user experience barrier—wallet complexity.
Rather than forcing users to memorize seed phrases or risk permanent loss of funds, BlockDAG introduces smart wallet features like social logins, built-in wallet recovery, and programmable access control.
This means you can sign up with a Google or Apple ID, recover your wallet if you lose access, and even assign different permissions to different apps or people—all from the same wallet.
In fact, this kind of functionality isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s the baseline for true mass adoption. Think of the average user. They’re not developers or security experts. They just want fast, secure, and intuitive access to their assets. BlockDAG understands that. By design, separating account logic from rigid on-chain constraints allows the system to integrate everyday Web2 experiences into a powerful Web3 engine.
BlockDAG’s presale has raised $208.5 million, with over 18.9 billion coins sold across 27 batches. The current batch is priced at $0.0248, reflecting strong interest in the project as it continues to develop solutions for real-world challenges.
Account abstraction isn’t just a technical upgrade—it’s the missing piece that makes DeFi feel like using an app, not a protocol. And importantly, BlockDAG is putting that simplicity within reach.
Why BlockDAG’s UX Focus Matters Most
Technical breakthroughs mean little if everyday users can’t participate with ease. Immutable’s growth in blockchain gaming and Stack Capital’s expanding investment portfolio reflect progress—but they operate within ecosystems that still assume users will adapt to crypto’s quirks.
BlockDAG flips that assumption. Its account abstraction approach doesn’t just reduce friction—it rethinks the entire onboarding experience. By putting usability first, BlockDAG addresses what others overlook: the human element. If mass adoption is the goal, then simplicity isn’t just a feature—it’s the foundation. And right now, BlockDAG is one of the few actually building on it.
