A guide to building production DeFi apps that scale. Back in 2021, I joined Balancer, the popular AMM on Ethereum. I joined at a time when they had gained product market fit for the protocol but the v1 app left a lot to be desired. I was recruited to lead their frontend/product efforts and build out a v2 of the web app. The Balancer leadership at the time were very ideological about decentralization at all layers of the stack and so pushed for the v2 app to be as decentralized as possible. Wh...