Jacob Chavez-Navarro
I co-founded Boba, an AI-native crypto trading app, where, as Chief Product Officer, I owned product and design end to end.
Previously, I led design at Myriad, Decrypt’s prediction market, which now powers the predictions built into Trust Wallet. Before that, I made viral internet experiences for DeGods and y00ts at De Labs and was the founding designer at Jump.
Brands I've designed with
Highlights
- Co-founded Boba and raised a $1.5M pre-seed, and grew it to 20,000 users and $12.7M in trading volume across 43,000+ trades.
- Launched Boba Agents, OpenCode for trading: AI agents with real market data for millions of tokens and RWAs, automations, and tool calls, built for all models.
- Led design as CPO: hired and managed a team across product design, illustration, and motion, ran critique, and set the product and design roadmap.
- Designed Myriad’s first design system, spanning 3 products and cutting design-to-build from 1–2 weeks to a day.
- Designed the first in-article prediction market, bringing live markets into Decrypt's news coverage.
Work
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Boba · Co-Founder & CPOSelf-custody trading, perps, and prediction markets.
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Myriad at Decrypt · Senior Product DesignerPrediction markets in the news, now native in Trust Wallet.
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de[labs] · Product DesignerProducts and brand for DeGods and y00ts.
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Jump · Founding Product DesignerMobile dating app.
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Sandbar · Product & Brand DesignerWeb3 talent hub and brand.
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Degen Forest · Product DesignerNFT marketplace.
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Lunur · Product DesignerCrypto smart wallet.
Experience
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Able Labs · Co-Founder & CPO, Boba
Owned product and design for a self-custody trading platform across spot, perps, and prediction markets. Designed the core trading experience and Boba Agents, and shaped pricing, fees, and referrals.
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Decrypt · Senior Product Designer, Myriad
First in-house product design hire. Led Myriad from concept to launch and partnered with the CPO and CTO on a shared design language.
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De Labs · Product Designer, DeGods & y00ts
Designed across 6 responsive products and led a community marketplace from research to shipped UI.
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Jump · Founding Product Designer
First design hire. Brand, design system, and mobile app.
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Lunur · Product Designer
End-to-end product UI, brand, and design system for a crypto wallet.
Cool Posts
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OpenCode for trading: agents with real market data for millions of tokens and RWAs, semantic memory, automations, and tool calls, built for all models.
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Redesigning Phantom's iconic ghost within their new brand direction.
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Designed and led the y00ts rebrand. Three months of brand direction, 140K+ impressions at launch.
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Rethinking the post footer: views left, timestamp right, quote-post with inline stats.
Capabilities
- Leadership
- Building and leading design teams, critique, fundraising, business model design
- Design
- Product strategy, interaction design, design systems, prototyping, user research
- Engineering
- React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, HTML/CSS, WebGL, Swift, SwiftUI, Postgres, Vercel, Railway
- Domains
- Trading and DeFi, prediction markets, AI and agent UX, consumer mobile