Work & money

Crypto & web3: the tech stack of 34 real products

Wallets, trading, on-chain tools and web3 apps.

What sets them apart

Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.

The typical stack

The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.

DecisionMost common pickShareAt default usage
Frontend FrameworkReact27 of 30 · 90%—
DatabasePostgreSQL15 of 19 · 79%—
Backend FrameworkExpress11 of 18 · 61%—
Error MonitoringSentry13 of 13 · 100%$29/mo · Team
HostingCloudflare5 of 13 · 38%$12/mo · Workers Paid
Database Access & ORMsPrisma3 of 10 · 30%—
Image & Video Hostingsharp9 of 9 · 100%—
Web AnalyticsPlausible Analytics4 of 8 · 50%$19/mo · Starter 100k

Monthly bills add up to about $60 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →

What they chose, decision by decision

Among the crypto & web3 that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.

Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Background Jobs & Cron (pg-boss 4, Trigger.dev 1) · File Storage (Amazon S3 6, MinIO 2) · Transactional Email (SendGrid 4, Resend 1) · LLM API (OpenAI API 2, Claude 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 2, Amplitude 2) · Authentication (Better Auth 1, Auth0 1) · Payments (Stripe 3, PayPal 1)

Crypto & web3 we track

20 makers' products and 14 open-source projects. Makers' products first.

AritectThe all-in-one platform for actionable market intelligence
RPCForgeMulti-chain Ethereum RPC you own and control
Just The TipsA stablecoin tip-jar bot for Discord, Telegram, Twitch, & X
MorpheusMorpheus - A Network For Powering Smart Agents - Compute + Code + Capital + Community+4
Hexpay💎 Integrate P2P crypto payments easily
dshopOrigin Dshop - launch your own decentralized store+6
sigleOpen-source Web3 writing platform for Web3 writers+5
web3.storageDEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin+4
frontendWeb frontend for TradingStrategy.ai+1
lnbitsLNbits, free and open-source Lightning wallet and accounts system.
ponderThe backend framework for crypto apps
wagmiReactive primitives for Ethereum apps
anchor⚓ Solana Program Framework
bitcartBitcart is a free and open-source self-hosted payment processor for BTC, LTC, BCH, XMR, ETH, TRX, USDT and more
tevmAn Ethereum Node built to run in Browser, Bun, Deno, and Node.js
consoleDeploy docker containers on the Akash Network+7
nft.storage**Notice: Uploads Decommissioned - Existing Data is Safe!** +3
l2beatL2BEAT is an analytics and research website about Ethereum layer two (L2) scaling solutions.+2
xLog🪽 An open-source creative community written on the blockchain.+1
interface🦄 Open source interfaces for the Uniswap protocol
ethlanceEthlance is the first job market platform built entirely on the Ethereum blockchain. Free to use forever!
OctoBotFree open source crypto trading bot to automate AI, Grid, DCA and TradingView strategies on Binance, Hyperliquid and 15+ exchanges, with a simple interface.
cardano-js-sdkJavaScript SDK for interacting with Cardano, providing various key management options, with support for popular hardware wallets
cowswap🐮 CowSwap: First CoW Protocol UI
lbry-desktopA browser and wallet for LBRY, the decentralized, user-controlled content marketplace.
augurAugur v2 - Prediction Market Protocol and Client
uniswap-aiAI tools for building on Uniswap — skills, plugins, and agents for any coding agent.