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The Graveyard

Dead NFTs, earning six feet under.

Role
Concept & Product Design
Timeline
Self-directed
Type
Mobile app
Year
2025
Tags
mobile, defi, nft, yield, concept
Links
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  • ~6%vault APY
  • Non-custodialcustody
  • No new primitiveapproach
  • Web3platform
The Graveyard: crypt, home

crypt, home

01

Overview

Why

Billions sit dead in illiquid NFTs. Bury one into a real yield vault and it earns while it waits to rise again.

Goal

Solve dead-NFT liquidity without a new primitive, by borrowing a trusted rail and making its value legible.

Billions of dollars sit dead in NFTs with no bids and no liquidity, assets nobody will buy, sitting in wallets doing nothing. The Graveyard gives them a job while they wait: bury a dead NFT into an ether.fi Liquid vault and it starts earning immediately, second by second, while a dead clock counts down to its resurrection. When the countdown ends, the NFT comes back out, worth more than when it died.

The move is to not invent a new primitive. The Graveyard sits directly on an existing ether.fi Liquid vault, earning its real, existing yield (~6% a year), non-custodial the entire time. The only new thing is the story wrapped around it: burying and resurrecting instead of depositing and withdrawing. Compounding, normally the least visible, least felt part of any yield product, becomes the hero, made visible as a literal countdown to resurrection.

The entire flow reduces to two words a person already understands without a glossary: Rest in Peace to bury an NFT, Resurrected to cash it back out. No vault jargon, no primitive to learn, no onboarding tutorial required. The macabre framing does double duty as both personality and explanation.

02

Selected screens

The Graveyard: crypt, home
crypt, home
The Graveyard: scan, dead detected
scan, dead detected
The Graveyard: bury, the summoning
bury, the summoning
The Graveyard: tomb, earning
tomb, earning
The Graveyard: risen, the miracle
risen, the miracle

Synthesis

What it taught me

  1. 01

    the best DeFi UX decision is often not inventing anything new: borrow a trusted rail and spend the design effort on making its value legible

  2. 02

    playful, on-brand tone isn't a distraction from clarity; done right, it is the clarity. 'bury' and 'resurrect' explain the product faster than any tooltip could

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