Rebuilding a regulated DeFi platform for trust, compliance, and system-wide consistency

Following the acquisition of its VARA licence in Dubai, MANTRA Finance required a major product overhaul to align with new regulatory and compliance expectations.

At the same time, years of iterative growth across multiple designers had resulted in an increasingly fragmented interface: inconsistent components, duplicated patterns, and diverging interaction behaviours across the platform.

The challenge extended beyond compliance alone: the product needed to support complex financial workflows while establishing a more unified, scalable, and trustworthy user experience.

Client / Project

MANTRA / De-Fi Platform

Client / Project

MANTRA / De-Fi Platform

Platform

Responsive web

Platform

Responsive web

Role

UX UI

Role

UX UI

Year / Duration

2025 / 6 months

Year / Duration

2025 / 6 months

MANTRA Finance / Portfolio

Clarity and guidance are critical for user momentum

Trust is heavily influenced by consistency

Standardisation improves scalability and design coherence

Research

Analysing trust, compliance, and interface consistency

Research focused on understanding how regulated financial platforms, both within and outside the crypto space, approach onboarding, verification, and trust-building through interface design.

Particular attention was given to KYC and KYB flows, analysing how platforms balance regulatory requirements with usability and user confidence during identity verification.

In parallel, a platform-wide UI audit was conducted to assess the extent of visual and interaction inconsistencies across the product. This revealed duplicated patterns, fragmented spacing systems, and numerous variations of core components, including nearly ten separate implementations of the same input widget.

Problem statment

The platform lacked the consistency, structure, and trust signals required for a regulated financial product, with fragmented components and evolving interaction patterns creating friction across key user journeys.

Simultaneously, new compliance requirements introduced additional complexity to onboarding and verification flows, requiring a more cohesive and scalable design approach.

The platform lacked the consistency, structure, and trust signals required for a regulated financial product, with fragmented components and evolving interaction patterns creating friction across key user journeys.

Simultaneously, new compliance requirements introduced additional complexity to onboarding and verification flows, requiring a more cohesive and scalable design approach.

The platform lacked the consistency, structure, and trust signals required for a regulated financial product, with fragmented components and evolving interaction patterns creating friction across key user journeys.

Simultaneously, new compliance requirements introduced additional complexity to onboarding and verification flows, requiring a more cohesive and scalable design approach.

Design response

The KYC and KYB ojourneys guide users through compliance-heavy flows with clearer structure and feedback. Mid-project, the onboarding experience was successfully adapted to integrate Sumsub without disrupting the overall experience.

Existing components were audited, consolidated, and rebuilt into a more cohesive rule-based system, significantly reducing duplication and visual drift across the product.

MANTRA Finance / Portfolio and Transaction History.

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