iVest: pre-launch QA of a blockchain investment platform

Functional, UX and performance testing of a token-minting investment platform before it went public.

Client: iVest
Service: Strategy and research
Period: Sep–Nov 2024
Review: 5.0 on Upwork

Client documents

Confidential. Not published here; available to prospective clients under NDA.

NDAUI and functional testing report
NDAWebsite UX and SEO audit

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The brief

The platform let users buy and mint its token through CoinPayments, on a React front end and Node.js back end. Before launch, the admin panel, the purchase-to-mint flow and site performance all needed checking by someone who understood both the product and the token mechanics.

What I did

Documented more than 15 critical UI issues, including broken notification actions, password policy gaps, failed redirects and data integrity flaws in the admin panel
Traced bottlenecks in the purchase-to-mint pipeline and recommended status bars, queueing and parallel minting
Flagged Core Web Vitals issues, oversized images and unnecessary scripts
Identified missing idle-session logout and inconsistent encryption handling

Frameworks and tools

Manual functional QA
Chrome DevTools
Lighthouse
Cross-device testing

Outcome

More than 25 launch-blocking bugs caught before production
A stable MVP shipped with a cleaner token purchase flow and tighter admin security

The client praised the attention to edge cases, the collaboration and how actionable the reports were.

Strategy and research 5.0 on Upwork

Custody policy and AML/KYC framework for a digital asset custodian

An institutional custody policy and AML/KYC/CFT addendum for a Fireblocks-based custody and settlement setup, written to be handed to a regulator.

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